It’s unbelievable to be among Luis Valdez, Robert Hooks, and others interviewed for the American theater issue of Tar Baby, a new quarterly journal published by the Toni Morrison Foundation that “connects a global community of intellectuals, artists, educators, and cultural enthusiasts.”
Many thanks to renowned novelist Ishmael Reed for the Q and A below. I encourage you to get a copy of the Fall 2025 issue here, just to see the world-class magazine design by Gisela Swift of Picante Creative that uses photos from our recent script workshop at the Seattle Repertory Theater. You can click on the images to read the spread, but I’ve also posted the text below: Continue reading Q and A with Ishmael Reed on “NO-NO BOY: The Play”→
On this date we’re in a strange transitional phase, preparing to defend democracy and civil liberties, books and libraries, history and knowledge and education, as they all come under concerted and coordinated attack in the four years to come. The example and literature of Japanese American resistance to wartime incarceration is more relevant than ever, and the script will continue to be written and rewritten to confront events as they unfold. Without question, we will look back at this time of relative peace and grace with nostalgia and a degree of anger at how we got here. However, we press forward, and here’s what’s on tap for the first half of 2025. Continue reading Asserting our history and defending civil liberties in 2025→
The Okada signature survives! When I first came to Seattle in 1977, poet and playwright Garrett Hongo brought me backstage to the empty Nippon Kan Theater to show me a wall of graffiti with the name of a juvenile John Okada, painstaking inked into the stone. It was like touching a piece of history. Continue reading Okada graffiti preserved at historic Nippon Kan Theater→
It’s unbelievable to be among Luis Valdez, Robert Hooks, and others interviewed for the American theater issue of Tar Baby, a new quarterly journal published by the Toni Morrison Foundation that “connects a global community of intellectuals, artists, educators, and cultural enthusiasts.”
