(Los Angeles) Hero Theatre presents a revival of Tea, Velina Hasu Houston’s powerful, lyrical exploration of the immigrant experience that has become a modern classic. Five Japanese women learn to adjust to a new life in rural Kansas alongside their American GI husbands after World War II in this deeply moving, humorous and surprising play […]
Cultural News is the comprehensive source of Japanese cultural and art information in Southern California. For free sample copy, please send your request to editor@culturalnews.com Contents of Weekly Cultural News, April 11-17, 2022 (Reiwa 4) P01: Japanese war brides story during late 1960s in Fort Riley, Kansas: Venila Hasu Houston’s “Tea” to be played […]
The Ryerson School of Performance (Toronto, Canada) in association with London South Bank University Arts & Creative Industries, the University of Southern California School of Dramatic Arts and Playwright Arena present an exclusive Los Angeles’ presentation of Crossing Borders. Where Shadow Chases Light Written by Velina Hasu Houston As part of Crossing Borders Written by […]
Playwrights’ Arena presents the world premiere of LITTLE WOMEN [a multicultural transposition] by Velina Hasu Houston directed by Jon Lawrence Rivera Inspired by Louisa May Alcott’s novel, it is 1949, Josephine Mayeda and her sisters Meg, Amy, and Beth are emerging in the midst of the history of Japanese Americans who found a place for […]
Velina Hasu Houston Literary Retrospective : Provost’s Writers Series October 21, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Doheny Library, USC, 240 Velina Hasu Houston is the only American playwright to amass a body of work that explores the U.S.-Japan relationship through a bilateral, global view of identity. She has written more than 30 plays as well […]
Cultural News Club was launched in January 2013 to explore and experience Japanese culture in Los Angeles. This week, the Cultural News club is hosting “CELEBRATION OF TEA” Sunday, Sept 22, from 11 am to 2 pm The Actors Group 2813 W. Magnolia, Burbank, California 91505 11 AM – Tao of Tea Tea tasting […]
The Japanese American National Museum, in collaboration with the USC Hapa Japan Database Project, is set to open its next exhibition, Visible & Invisible: A Hapa Japanese American History, Sunday, April 7 through Sunday, August 25, 2013. Through photos, historical artifacts, multimedia images, and interactive components, Visible & Invisible explores the diverse and complex history […]
TEA, WITH MUSIC, by Velina Hasu Houston, is the critically-acclaimed play about Japanese war brides from World War II now living in Kansas gathering for a farewell tea ceremony for one of their members who has mysteriously passed away. In honor of the play’s 25th Anniversary, the East West Players presents something different as Houston […]
