From left: Parvesh Cheena and Rachna Khatau in "Wives" at East West Players (Photo by Brian Hashimoto) First performed off-Broadway in 2019, “Wives” by Jaclyn Backhaus is a pastiche of stories focused on wives, mistresses, mothers and witches (in other words, most women), making a comedic case for an alternative to patriarchy. In East West Players’ coproduction of the play with Hypokrit Live Arts — continuing through Nov. 1 and engagingly directed by Arpita Mukherjee — fo

From left: Daniel J. Kim (Bradley Yamashita) and Kelvin Han Yee (Vincent Chang) in “Yankee Dawg You Die” at East West Players (Photo by...

From left: Joe Ngo (Chum), Abraham Kim (Rom), Kelsey Angel Baehrens (Sothea), Jane Lui (Pou) and Tim Liu (Leng) in East West Players' "Cambodian Rock Band" (Photo by Teolindo) East West Players’ “Cambodian Rock Band” essentially tore up the stage of the David Hwang Theater in Los Angeles while wrapping up its extended run last weekend. An explosive blend of music and storytelling both humorous and harrowing, Lauren Yee’s play as directed by Chay Yew is the kind of performance

What did you do when the pandemic hit? Comedian and performance artist Kristina Wong rallied together a group of “Aunties” on Facebook to...