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“Okay, Dad, what can you tell me about Vietnam?” 

I’m sitting in the Nichols Theatre watching Vietgone in previews, and as my eyes go back and forth from the stage to the ... Read More ›

It’s day one of tech for Vietgone. Four weeks since the cast began working in the rehearsal room. And I’m thinking about ninja.

Not the black-clad assassins popular in martial arts films, mind ... Read More ›

Director Lavina Jadhwani has been working with Writers Theatre for close to ten years now. When Director of New Work & Dramaturgy Bobby Kennedy ... Read More ›

We’re now a week and a half into busy daytime rehearsals of Vietgone, Qui Nguyen’s 2015 dramatization of his parents meeting as refugees from Vietnam in 1975. In terms of nut and ... Read More ›

“This is not a story about war. It’s a story about falling in love.” These are the words of Vietgone playwright Qui Nguyen, who (playfully) clarifies in the play’s opening moments that this story ... Read More ›