Roxanne Ray
Anu-Ujin Batbaatar brings Mongolian music to The Moore
This month, STG Theatre Group continues its tradition of featuring youth musicians with its 22nd annual More Music @ The Moore. Among the lineup of nine musicians or groups is 14-year-old instrumentalist and throat...
Vancouver playwright and actor Rick Tae’s surreal rom-com play ‘My Little Tomato’ centers on...
Vancouver-based playwright, actor, and acting coach Rick Tae doesn’t take himself too seriously. While he does pursue his career with a relentless passion, his current rom-com play My Little Tomato, which will be produced...
Mother and daughter artistis directors Ranee and Aparna Ramaswamy bring ‘Fires of Varanasi’ to...
Ragamala Dance Company just celebrated its 30th anniversary last year, and now, in February, the dance troupe brings its show Fires of Varanasi: Dance of the Eternal Pilgrim to Seattle’s Meany Center for the...
Seattle Opera celebrates Afghan arts and culture
In conjunction with its presentation of A Thousand Splendid Suns, Seattle Opera is also
hosting a cultural festival to celebrate a vast array of Afghan arts and culture. Entitled
Jashin: A Celebration of Afghan Arts, this...
Heartbeats from the soul of a tree: Yamato Drummers coming to Seattle
Yamato Drummers are celebrating their 30th anniversary, having been founded in 1993 in Japan’s Nara Prefecture. Yamato typically tours globally at least half of each year, and this month, the troupe comes to Seattle...
The world needs more laughter. TikTok-famous comedian Zarna Garg is coming to Tacoma to...
Comedy can light up our dark hours during winter, and recently, we featured comedian Julie Kim in these pages. Now, Zarna Garg of TikTok fame is coming to Tacoma, and will perform five shows...
Tacoma-based musical theater performer Kawika Huston is on stage in ‘Cinderella’
Local musical theatre performer Kawika Huston is gracing Puget Sound theatre and school stages from north to south, and he can now be seen in The Village Theatre’s production of Cinderella, as well as...
Hawai’i-based playwright Lee Cataluna releases new collection, ‘Flowers of Hawai’i and Other Plays’
Hawai’i-based playwright, journalist, and author Lee Cataluna is now sharing her work more widely: her collection Flowers of Hawai'i and Other Plays is Issue #121 of Bamboo Ridge, Journal of Hawai'i Literature and Arts, and the anthology...
As new leader of the Asian Opera Alliance, Melody Chang Heaton is ready to...
In 2021, Nina Yoshida Nelsen was inspired by the Stop AAPI Hate and Black Lives Matter movements, and by the exemplary work of her colleagues in the Black Opera Alliance, and this led her...
Cellist Leo Eguchi to perform eight solo pieces written by immigrant and first-generation composers
Most cellists play the works of composers as part of a symphony or quartet, while a few musicians specializing in cello compose their own music. But Boston-based cellist Leo Eguchi is doing something different: ...