Posts Tagged ‘Mike Lew’
“Bhangin’ It” Brings Big Vision, Exuberant Dance to La Jolla Playhouse
“Bhangin’ It,” the world premiere musical that opened Sunday night, ignites when it brings Indian dance and music styles to the La Jolla Playhouse stage. The story by Mike Lew and Rehana Lew Mirza takes on important themes: Who has the right to represent a culture, and how pure does that representation have to be?
Read MoreIn ‘Tiger Style,’ La Jolla Playhouse Plumbs the Best and Worst of Being Asian
The efficiency of numbers in the Chinese language and the demands of successful rice paddies have been suggested as clues to the academic success of Asian students. But the two discontented overachievers in ‘Tiger Style’ at the La Jolla Playhouse have never been near either one.
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