Philippine theater has long been producing stage greats. From homegrown talents that did rounds on Broadway, like Lea Salonga on Miss Saigon, Aladdin, Les Miserables and other musicals, to Karla Garcia on the ensemble...
Actress
Marj Ostani
Choi Eun-hee : the Legendary Actress Coveted by North and South Korea Alike
Often our lives are not our own to lead. Fortune dictates where we are born, when, and to whom. Mistakes and mishaps, large and small, buffet us as we make our way. Sometimes we make history, but always, it also makes...
April Editors
Asian actresses ready to kick ass in Hollywood – part 2
The Good Earth, a 1937 American film about Chinese farmers in a rural Chinese village, cast only white Caucasian actors playing the main Chinese characters. Luise Rainer, a snow-white German and American actress, played...
Guest Writer
Asian actresses ready to kick ass in Hollywood – part 1
At the 2015 Oscars, Neil Patrick Harris said, “Tonight we honor Hollywood’s best and whitest.” It’s not news that Hollywood has treated whiteness as the norm and whitewashed even non-white roles. Last year, paper-white...