Reason for Theater Mu's success? Rick Shiomi.(ENTERTAINMENT)

From: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) | Date: November 9, 1997| Author: | Copyright information

From Korean mask drama to Chinese dance theater, from a comedy about a Japanese-Canadian detective to an angry drama by a gay Samoan-American: All are part of the dramatic tapestry that is Theater Mu.

It's a tapestry woven in a theatrical minefield. Theater Mu represents a community that runs from sophisticated fourth-generation Japanese-Americans to preliterate people from the hills of Laos only recently arrived in Minnesota. It includes Asian people who grew up with strong, longstanding animosities toward other Asians. Its reach includes the Pacific Rim and the ...

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