Green Room

In a theater, actors await their cues to go on stage while sitting in the Green Room, idling their time and sharing stories, news and gossip. GREEN ROOM, the blog, plays a similar role for the statewide theatre community. Here we share word of current and upcoming shows, auditions, workshops and other theatre events. Here we list online theatre-related sources. Here, too, bloggers and readers can sound off on theatrical matters, including individual shows, performances, local trends, and the craft and business of the stage.

"Lovely People"

Local and other theatre Web sites

Call Back

Theatre auditions in Anchorage and beyond. Directors, post your notices here.

Now Showing

Theatrical productions both current and up-coming.

Groundlings speak

Audience reviews of shows everywhere.

Peter Porco

Former newspaper reporter Peter Porco was producer for many years of the Anchorage Poetry Slam at the Fly By Night Club, founder and past president of the Alaska Poetry League and a founding member and coordinator of the Alaskan Playwright Series at Cyrano's Off-Center Playhouse in Downtown Anchorage. He is a member of The Dramatists Guild.

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Kristina's world: funny, acerbic, full of pain

Crazy like a fox: Kristina Wong's new one-woman show provocatively wonders why there's so much mental illness among Asian American women.Crazy like a fox: Kristina Wong's new one-woman show provocatively wonders why there's so much mental illness among Asian American women.
From all indications, Kristina Wong's one-woman show of flaming-edge culture flips, which opens for three evenings at Out North on Friday, promises to be provocative, challenging and boundary blurring.

Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is her third full-length solo show, one in which this Chinese-American performance artist who was relatively unknown six years ago explores what she claims is the high prevalence of mental illness among Asian American women. According to NY Arts, women who've seen her show have come up to her and told "wrenching personal stories."

"One of the fundamental goals of her art is to see how people respond to her ideas," the magazine says. "Wong knows that her work has the ability to fire up people beyond her expectations and she works hard to coax the audience into using their hearts and minds in this way."

A University of Massachusetts professor of women's studies said, "Kristina Wong's brave, honest and wickedly funny performance is breaking the silence and shame around mental and emotional health challenges facing Asian American women."

The San Francisco Bay Guardian termed her work "unblinking social commentary."

These quotations and quite a few others are taken from articles and reviews to which Wong has linked on her own Web site.

For her show at Out North, you'll find more details at "Now Showing," in the box on the right.

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