Yellow Face triumph for David Henry Hwang launches London’s new Park Theatre: review

My review of Yellow Face in the Morning Star  4 stars Tuesday 28 May 2013 by Anna Chen Yellow Face Park Theatre, London N4 This smart and savvy comedy delivers a knock-out blow to any still-entrenched belief in certain crepuscular crannies of theatre land that east Asians can’t produce culture. Racism no longer has an […]

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David Henry Hwang comes to London: Yellow Face at the Park Theatre

Anna and Dr Amanda Rogers at Thursday’s Yellow Face press night Amanda and Charles Shaar Murray on press night Kevin Shen (who plays DHH in Yellow Face) introduces today’s Q&A session with David Henry Hwang and Dr Amanda Rogers Amanda and David in the Yellow Face Q&A David Henry Hwang To the spanking new Park

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Crosstown Lightnin’ “Werewolves of London” at the Black Velvet

A culture-rammed week began with Crosstown Lightnin’ at the Black Velvet club in West Kensington last Saturday 18th May, supporting Bex Marshall and her band. Here’s Crosstown Lightnin’s encore with special guest Stephen Dale Petit. Charles Shaar Murray, Buffalo Bill Smith, Marc Jefferies and Pete Miles play “Werewolves of London” by Warren Zevon. Video by

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Ellen Gallagher, fat ladies and Pan sex with goat: my week of London kulcher

POMPEII, HERCULANEUM AND ICE AGE ART In the cultural whirl that’s been my life this past week, I’ve seen not only the sold-out sexily titled Life and Death: Pompeii and Herculaneum exhibition (on until 29 September), I also caught Ice Age Art now in its final weeks: both at the British Museum. Some of the

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Crosstown Lightnin’ and Bex Marshall at Black Velvet: pix

Crosstown Lightnin’ played their first gig in a while, the first of many more the way things are looking. Charles Shaar Murray, Buffalo Bll Smith, Marc Jefferies and Pete Miles were tight as a gnat’s bum and rocked the swanky new W14 venue, Black Velvet, with their punky blues. Bex Marshall headlined with her 4-piece

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