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BY WENDY DANG Playwright Wendy Dang is so proud to have the world premiere of WHAT THE PHỞ? at Plan-B! She is an Equity actor, playwright, and author (as Rainie Dang). She is also the owner of The Dang Bakery and one of the founders of Época: An Acting Class For People of Color. Wendy’s…

This is my first radio play, and I’m discovering the similarities and differences between writing radio plays versus stage plays.

Some theatre is good drama.
Some drama is good theatre.
FACING EAST is both.”
– Martin Denton, nytheatre.com

One of the things I love about theatre is how well it can mimic, even mirror, our everyday lives.

That Christmas, one of our family gifts was a world atlas. I pored over it, memorizing each page. I couldn’t get enough of Japan (where my birth family is from), Peru (my mom lived there in fourth grade), and Great Salt Lake (dominating the western half of the U.S. map). To a fourth grader who had never been to Utah, it was Utah.

I wanted to give voice to children with “behavior issues” who often aren’t asked what they think or feel about the world around them.

A story began to form—an atypical day in the life of a small museum. Missing paintings, busloads of tourists, painfully shy docents, glorious music, art that comes to life …

Creative Aging is an ongoing, life-affirming choice which is beautiful in its own way because as long as I realize I have a choice, I have a voice.

Featuring a sneak peek of Carleton Bluford in Jenifer Nii’s FIRE!