{"id":18748,"date":"2018-02-20T16:14:31","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T21:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/news\/article.php?ArticleID=18748"},"modified":"2018-02-20T16:14:31","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T21:14:31","slug":"18748_prominent-theatre-artists-join-cart-students-to-address-representation-of-asian-americans-onstage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/theatre-and-dance\/2018\/02\/20\/18748_prominent-theatre-artists-join-cart-students-to-address-representation-of-asian-americans-onstage\/","title":{"rendered":"Prominent Theatre Artists Join CART Students to Address Representation of Asian Americans Onstage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday Feb 23 at 6:00 pm the Department of Theatre and Dance will host a panel discussion to provide historical context for the upcoming musical <em>Anything Goes<\/em>. Entitled \u201cThe Evolution of Ching and Ling to John and Luke: Examining the Troubling History of Racial Stereotypes in Anything Goes.\u201d The libretto of <em>Anything Goes<\/em> was updated in 1987 and the panel will examine why such a change was necessary.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>Joining the discussion are two prominent artists from the professional theatre community. Steven Eng, a classically trained actor, is a founding member of the National Asian Artists Project, a non-profit organization to promote \u201cthe work of Asian-American theatre artists through performance, outreach and educational programming.\u201d Eng has performed internationally, including in London\u2019s West End.<\/p>\n<p>Nandita Shenoy, New York-based playwright and performer, will also be on the panel. Shenoy is on the steering committee for the Asian American Performers Action Coalition whose mission is \u201cto expand the perception of Asian American performers in order<span> <\/span>to increase their access to and representation on New York City\u2019s stages.\u201d Shenoy\u2019s most recent play \u201cWasher\/Dryer\u201d was produced by the acclaimed Ma-Yi Theatre Company in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Graduate Student Ashlee Morel will moderate the discussion, with Undergraduate Students Jason Yanto and Kevin Wang, who play as John and Luke respectively, sharing their experiences working on the roles. The panel is free and open to the public, and will take place in The Presentation Room in the School of Communication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday Feb 23 at 6:00 pm the Department of Theatre and Dance will host a panel discussion to provide historical context for the upcoming musical Anything Goes. Entitled \u201cThe Evolution of Ching and Ling to John and Luke: Examining the Troubling History of Racial Stereotypes in Anything Goes.\u201d The libretto of Anything Goes was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":118748,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/theatre-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/theatre-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/theatre-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/theatre-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/theatre-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/theatre-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/theatre-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/theatre-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/theatre-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/theatre-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}