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Qui Nguyen's 'Poor Yella Rednecks' follows Vietnamese immigrants as they adjust to life in rural America.

The second of playwright Qui Nguyen's family-saga trilogy of plays, 'Poor Yella Rednecks,' premiered Wednesday at ACT's Strand Theater.

Jaime Castañeda’s direction at the S.F. theater evinces that DNA-deep understanding of what makes a playwright special and important.

Hop aboard the No. 5 bus and join South Coast Repertory (David Ivers, Artistic Director and Paula Tomei, Managing Director) on a

The interactive theater project is a trio of encounters between strangers that take place over several months. Part 1, which will begin Thursday, is a scheduled phone call in which two audience members will be paired together to create a shared fiction through a series of prompts. Part 2 will take place in a few months, when two audience members will sit at a table, separated by a pane of glass, to create another story using a stack of index cards, a handful of objects and a set of instruction...

I’m David L. Coddon, and here’s your guide to all things essential in San Diego’s arts and culture this week. Society, indeed a world, cannot be understood in only 10 minutes. But it can, with all its crises and complexities, be placed in powerful perspective. In Alyce Smith Cooper’s and Shammy Dee’s “Spittin’ Truth to Power While Light Leaping for the People,” three short videos composed of storytelling, poetry and music coalesce to make an urgent intergenerational statement...

The La Jolla Light presents this continuing series of online activities to undertake on your computer or tablet during your quarantine quandary. Lectures & learning Author and screenwriter Samantha Silva will discuss her book “Mr. Dickens and His Carol” online Thursday, Dec. 17. (Courtesy) • Warwick’s bookstore presents author and screenwriter Samantha Silva at 4 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 17, via Facebook Live. Silva will discuss the new paperback edition of her debut novel, “Mr. Dickens ...