• Edible Queens Presents Asian Feastival on Labor Day Monday, 9/6 in Flushing, Queens • Multimedia-Photos and Video: Disney's The Lion King Las Vegas- In the Makeup Chair with Thom Sesma • Joan Almedilla, Alan Ariano, Rona Figueroa, Adam Jacobs, Jose Llana, and Orville Mendoza Set for Concert version of Long Season at Ayala Foundation USA Gala in SF on 9/25 • Alfred Preisser and Tracy Jack's BLACK NATIVITY NOW Set for Limited Off-Broadway Run at St. Clement's, 12/3/10-1/2/11 • Leviathan Lab's Production of Twelfth Night set for 11/2-11/14 run at The ArcLight Theatre in NY • Photo Preview: Jeff Cohen's The Man Who Ate Michael Rockefeller, directed by Alfred Preisser • Multimedia: Photos and video of Leviathan Lab's reading of Christine Toy Johnson's Adventures of a Faux Designer Handbag • Playwright Edgar Mendoza awarded Kennedy Center's inaugural Paul Stephen Lim Asian-American Playwriting Award for his play Blue Note Run • Dog Run Rep presents the world premiere of Jeff Cohen's The Man Who Ate Michael Rockefeller at the West End Theatre in New York, 9/10-10/3 • Norman Y. Mineta: A Boy from San Jose by E. Samantha Cheng, screens at National Portrait Gallery
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Lia Chang is an actor, performance and fine art botanical photographer and an award-winning multimedia journalist. Lia’s portraits and performance photos have appeared in Vanity Fair, Gourmet, German Elle, Women’s Wear Daily, The Paris Review, VIBE, TV Guide, Daily Variety, Interior Design, American Theatre, Life & Style, OUT, New York Magazine, InStyle, Timeout.com, Villagevoice.com, Playbill.com, Theatermania.com, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, USA Today, The Boston Globe, New York Times and Washington Post. A former syndicated arts and entertainment columnist for KYODO News, Lia is the New York Bureau Chief for AsianConnections.com. She writes about culture, style and Asian American issues for a variety of publications and this Backstage Pass with Lia Chang blog . As a photographer and videographer, Lia is frequently tapped to collaborate with artists, organizations and companies in establishing their documentary photo archive. She has been documenting her colleagues and contemporaries in the arts, fashion and journalism since making her stage debut as Liat in the National Tour of South Pacific, with Robert Goulet and Barbara Eden. Other Articles by this Author
Multimedia: 2009 Bellagio Holiday Botanical Display in Las Vegas
Burnt Sugar at Joe's Pub on January 10, with special guest Melvin Van Peebles
Director Alfred Preisser Sets His Sights on a New World Stage
Multimedia: Living Colour in Concert at the Highline Ballroom Photos
2009-2010 Obie Awards Judges Announced, Ceremony to be held on May 17, 2010
David Henry Hwang, Francis Jue, Kathryn Layng and Edward Albee: YELLOW FACE Reading Book Signing at The Drama Book Shop on 12/10
Multimedia: Lord & Taylor 2009 Christmas Windows
New York Knicks to Honor Wat Misaka at Madison Square Garden on 12/20 André De Shields Celebrates Black History Month Starring in The Working Theater's Production of Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory at The Abington in February 2010
Classical Theatre of Harlem’s Archbishop Supreme Tartuffe, MTC’s Ruined are Top Winners at 2009 Audelcos
Multimedia: George Takei, Nancy Kwan, Lisa Lu and Tsai Chin attend Hollywood Chinese: The Arthur Dong Collection Exhibition Opening Night
Audelco 2009 “The Viv” Nominees for the 2008-2009 Theatre Season Classical Theatre of Harlem Scores 12 AUDELCO Nods for Archbishop Supreme Tartuffe and The Three Sisters
Lia Chang Multimedia: Living Colour NYC Highline Ballroom Concert Photos
Multimedia: LIVING COLOUR performs at the Highline Ballroom in New York on October 30
Multimedia: BD Wong, Anastasia Barzee, Clarke Thorell, Cindy Cheung and Orville Mendoza at Rattlestick Playwrights Theaters' Musical Mix 'n' Mingle
The Chinese American Museum partners with Academy award nominated filmmaker Arthur Dong on a groundbreaking exhibition about Hollywood's forgotten past
Georgia O’Keefe Abstraction at the Whitney Museum of Art Through January 17, 2010
Monet’s Water Lilies on view at MOMO through April 12, 2010
My Botanical Beauties for the LIU/King’s County Hospital Center Nursing School
National Asian American Theatre Festival in New York
NAATCO's all-Asian-American cast of The Seagull features Cindy Cheung, Marcus Ho, Mia Katigbak and Orville Mendoza
Multimedia: Andre De Shields stars in Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: From Douglass to Deliverance at The YARD
Multimedia: NAATCO's LOVE! VALOUR! COMPASSION! with special guest Terrence McNally
David Henry Hwang’s YELLOW FACE Starring Francis Jue, Pub Bandu and Thomas Azar at Theatreworks through 9/20
Samrat Chakrabarti is featured in Claire McCarthy’s The Waiting City, which screens at the Toronto International Film Festival
ONE Musical stars Paolo Montalban, Manu Narayan, Pearl Sun and Michael Winther
The Bacchae Opening Night Photos: Andre De Shields, Jonathan Groff and Anthony Mackie
Andre De Shields receives Living Legend Award at the 2009 National Black Theatre Festival
Mid Summer Night Swing
2009 Asian American Journalists Association Awards
AAIFF 09 Closing Night Awards and H.P. Mendoza's Fruit Fly
AAIFF Karma Calling, You Don't Know Jack and Children of Invention
Jeff Adachi's You Don't Know Jack and Tzi Chun's Children of Invention Screen at AAIFF 09
Multimedia: AAIFF 09 Opening Night Screening of Claustrophobia
Schedule at a Glance: Asian American International Film Festival AAIFF 2009
Transcending: The Wat Misaka Story Screens at Rhode Island International Film Festival on 8/8
Japan Cuts Festival of New Japanese Film
BD Wong Stars in La Jolla Production of Herringbone 8/1-8/30
Asian American International Film Festival 09 runs 7/23-7/26
Multimedia: Oumou Sangare, Will Calhoun at Central Park Summerstage
Oumou Sangare on North American Tour
Photo Call: Derek Walcott's Marie Laveau
Multimedia: Archbishop Supreme Tartuffe Opening Night Party Photos
BD Wong Stars in the La Jolla Playhouse Production of Herringbone, August 1-30
Multimedia: Archbishop Supreme Tartuffe
Playbill.com: Photo Call: De Shields and Lange Star in Off Broadway’s Archbishop Supreme Tartuffe
Camille Darby's Lords Resistance has Reading on June 20
André De Shields Stars in Archbishop Supreme Tartuffe
In Arthur Dong's Hollywood Chinese, Chinese Tinseltown Tales told by Asian Silver Screen Icons
Multimedia: Asian Pacific American Month Celebration at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
BD Wong Performs in Symphony Space’s Wall to Wall Broadway
Thom Sesma as Scar in The Lion King at Mandalay Bay
Review: HBO’s China’s Unnatural Disaster the Tears of Sichuan Province
Multimedia: Francis Mbappe and the Tribe at Joe's Pub Photos
Will Calhoun's Native Lands Experience Live at the Blue Note in NYC
Mark Shaw: A Retrospective at Monroe Gallery of Photography in Santa Fe
Francis Mbappe Unplugged with The Tribe at Joe's Pub
The Dish on Susur Lee and Shang
On Ensemble, Kenny Endo and Kaoru Watanabe in Taiko x2 at Cerritos Center
Thelonious Monk at Town Hall-The 50th Anniversary Celebration
RED opening reception at Gouverneur Healthcare Services
AAJA member Lia Chang's RED photographic exhibit part of Chinese New Year celebration
Stanley Jordan
David Henry Hwang, Kathryn Layng and BD Wong at the Asian American Writers Workshop Literary Awards
Amuse-Bouche with BD Wong
Andre De Shields and Reg E. Cathey Star in Cato at The Flea
BD Wong is a Tour de Force in Herringbone
Nothing is Sacred in David Henry Hwang's Comedy of Mistaken Racial Identity
Francis Jue, At Home on the Stage
NAATCO's pitch perfect Falsettoland hits all the right notes
Flower Drum Song: An American Story
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