{{Short description|New York City theatre group}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} thumb|250px|Theatre entrance The '''Pan Asian Repertory Theatre''' is a New York City-based theatre group that explores the Asian-American experience and provides professional opportunities for Asian-American artists to collaborate.<ref name=Haun>{{cite web |url=https://playbill.com/article/40-years-on-pan-asian-rep-still-uses-art-as-protest |title=40 Years On, Pan Asian Rep Still Uses Art as Protest |last1=Haun |first1=Harry |date=June 16, 2017 |website=playbill.com |publisher=Playbill |location=New York City |access-date=May 12, 2025}}</ref> Pan-Asian was founded by Tisa Chang and Ernest Abuba in 1977, and Chang remains artistic director.<ref name="Hall">{{cite web |url=https://playbill.com/article/pan-asian-repertory-theatre-founder-ernest-abuba-dies-at-74 |title=Pan Asian Repertory Theatre Founder Ernest Abuba Dies at 74 |last1=Hall |first1=Margaret |date=June 28, 2022 |website=playbill.com |publisher=Playbill |location=New York City |access-date=May 13, 2025}}</ref> Chang established the Pan Asian Repertory Theatre as a resident company at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club in 1977, with the intention of popularizing Asian-American theater and leading to other similar theatre companies in cities with an Asian disaporic population.<ref name=gussow>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/04/22/theater/a-stage-for-all-the-world-of-asian-americans.html |url-access=subscription |title=A Stage for All the World of Asian-Americans |last=Gussow |first=Mel |author-link=Mel Gussow |date=April 22, 1997 |publisher=New York Times |page=C-16 |access-date=May 13, 2025 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110614095439/https://www.nytimes.com/1997/04/22/theater/a-stage-for-all-the-world-of-asian-americans.html |archive-date=June 14, 2011}}</ref><ref name=alipio/>
Specializing in intercultural productions of new Asian-American plays,<ref name=alipio>{{Cite news |last=Alipio |first=Amy |date=June 10, 2022 |title=These groundbreaking theaters shine a spotlight on Asian stories |language=en |work=National Geographic |url=https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/these-groundbreaking-theaters-shine-spotlight-on-asian-stories |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220610144350/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/these-groundbreaking-theaters-shine-spotlight-on-asian-stories |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 10, 2022 |access-date=June 23, 2022}}</ref> Asian classics in translation, and innovative adaptations of Western classics,<ref name=gussow/> some of the works Pan Asian has presented included: * ''Empress of China'' - featuring Tina Chen in the title role of China's last dowager ruler * ''Yellow Fever -'' continued to an Off-Broadway run * ''Ghashiram Kotwal -'' Marathi play with music * ''Teahouse'' - by Lao She, spanning fifty years of modern Chinese history * ''Cambodia Agonistes'' - by Ernest Abuba, music by Louis Stewart * ''The Teahouse of the August Moon'' - by John Patrick * ''Forbidden City Blues -'' by Alexander Woo * ''The Fan Tan King'' - by C. Y. Leethe, world premiere * ''Yohen -'' by Philip Kan Gotanda * ''Tea -'' by Velina Hasu Houston, 20th anniversary production * ''Ching Chong Chinaman'' at the Westside Theatre<ref name="wsj">{{Cite news |last=Kung |first=Michelle |date=April 5, 2010 |title=''Ching Chong Chinaman'' Playwright Explains Controversial Title |language=en-US |work=Wall Street Journal |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-SEB-30025 |access-date=June 23, 2022 |issn=0099-9660}}</ref>
Pan Asian has staged early works of writers including Momoko Iko, Wakako Yamauchi, Philip Kan Gotanda, R. A. Shiomi, and David Henry Hwang. When they established a residency program in 1987, Pan Asian became the United States' first resident Asian American theater company continuing with Chang's goal to showcase Asian American theater as having a role in the city's theater scene.<ref name="lee">{{Cite book|author1-link=Esther Kim Lee |last=Lee |first=Esther Kim |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Rj2W7MrqgRUC&dq=%2522Pan+Asian+Repertory+Theatre%2522&pg=PA91 |title=A History of Asian American Theatre |date=October 12, 2006 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-85051-3 |pages=43,90–92 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="bowles">{{Cite book |last=Bowles |first=Elinor |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_dgs7gEnucQC&dq=%2522Pan+Asian+Repertory+Theatre%2522&pg=PA102 |title=Cultural Centers of Color: Report on a National Survey |date=1993 |publisher=National Endowment for the Arts |pages=102–103 |language=en}}</ref>
==See also== * Asian American theatre <!-- Please leave this link intact, as the article to which it points would likely be orphaned otherwise.-->
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==External links== * [http://www.panasianrep.org/ Pan Asian Repertory Theatre official website] * [http://catalog.lamama.org/index.php/Detail/Entity/Show/entity_id/7340 Pan Asian Repertory Theatre on La MaMa Archives Digital Collections]
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