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Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Interview with Michael Salvatore Commendatore, Projection Designer for Disney's Frozen at Children's Theatre Company by Walter Byongsok Chon

This is a video interview with Michael Salvatore Commendatore, projection designer for Disney's Frozen at Children's Theatre Company in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The interview date is March 28…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 06:57AM[SHARE]

Wednesday, October 9, 2024

Meet ONG Keng Sen, the Artistic Director of Singapore's T:>Works and Keynote Speaker at the 2024 Singapore Literature Festival in NYC by Walter Byongsok Chon

The 6th biennial Singapore Literature Festival is held in New York City on October 19 and 20, 2024. Under the title "Living Adaptations," the festival will spotlight writing and directing fo…

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Sunday, July 21, 2024

Wajdi Mouawad's "Littoral": Searching for Peace Through the Devastation of War by Walter Byongsok Chon

Sejong Center for the Performing Arts (artistic director, Sun-Woong Koh) staged the play Littoral by Lebanese-Canadian playwright Wajdi Mouawad from June 14 to June 30. This was a Seoul Thea…

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Saturday, September 9, 2023

"Writing Using:" Framing the Body's Process of Liberation Through Contemporary Dance by Walter Byongsok Chon

Writing Using is the most recent work by Ahn Aesoon, one of the most renowned contemporary dancers and choreographers in South Korea. She served as the artistic director of the Korea Nationa…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 07:45PM[SHARE]

Sunday, June 4, 2023

"KPOP" on Broadway: A Multisensory Feast of HEUNG by Walter Byongsok Chon

KPOP is a new musical, with a book by Jason Kim and music by Helen Park and Max Vernon. It premiered at A.R.T./New York as a co-production by ArsNova, Woodshed Collective, and Ma-Yi Theater …

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 05:02AM[SHARE]

Friday, May 20, 2022

"The Legend of the Waitress & the Robber": World Premiere of NYC-Seoul Collaboration Inspired by Schiller and Hong Gildong by Walter Byongsok Chon

The Legend of The Waitress & The Robber is a collaboration between the Korean theatre companies Playfactory Mabangzen and Yellow Bomb and the New York City-based Concrete Temple Theater.…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 07:38PM[SHARE]

Friday, January 1, 2021

Searching for the Origin of the Korean Wave: The Nanhee's MIMAJI! by Walter Byongsok Chon

The Korean theatre company The Nanhee premiered its new production Mimaji!, written and directed by Myung-Wha Kim, at Bom Studio Theatre in Seoul, Korea, on November 26, 2020. Mimaji is the …

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 05:40PM[SHARE]

Thursday, June 25, 2020

Battle Of The Sexes In The Midst Of A Refugee Crisis In Korea: "Big Love" By Ets (Eye To Soul) by Walter Byongsok Chon

The Korean theatre company ETS, which is an acronym for Eye To Soul, staged Charles Mee's Big Love (2001) at the Haneul Round Theatre in Seoul, Korea, in June 2019 for the ten-year anniversa…

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Wednesday, January 15, 2020

Dramaturgs Reflect on the ATHE Dramaturgy Focus Group (DRFG) Part II: The Present by Walter Byongsok Chon

The annual ATHE (Associations for Theatre in Higher Education) conference took place in Orlando, FL, from August 7 to 11, 2019, with the theme, "Scene Changes: Performing, Teaching, and Work…

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Tuesday, January 14, 2020

Dramaturgs Reflect on the ATHE Dramaturgy Focus Group (DRFG) Part I: The Foundation by Walter Byongsok Chon

Originally, this article was conceived as a section of an extended piece called, "Dramaturgs Reflect on the ATHE Dramaturgy Focus Group (DRFG)," with recollections about the DRFG from both f…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:12PM[SHARE]

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