Northwest Asian American Theatre has selected a new artistic director: noted playwright and director Chay Yew, whose plays have been produced far and wide, from the Royal Court Theatre in London to Theatreworks in Singapore, as well as at Intiman Theatre and the late lamented Group Theatre here in Seattle.
"Think Evita Perón," Yew quips. "In a nutshell, I'm going to try to do more new work. I'm creating a parallel season called the Black Box that will do more non-Asian work and pick up some of the slack from [the disappearance of] the Group and Alice B. Theatres.... Most of the theaters I know of in the Seattle area, especially the large ones, tend to produce work from the East Coast, and I'm interested in new work from Seattle writers and directors."
Stranger Personals
Yew takes the reins from acting artistic director Rosa Joshi, who has been accepted for a professorship at Seattle University but will continue at NWAAT as a resident director. BRET FETZER
OK Kirkland
Kirkland: Don't get us started. But the California-like suburb sur mer has something good coming, in the form of 11 sculptures in temporary residence throughout the town and along the waterfront park. The sculptures, on loan courtesy of the Buschlen Mowatt Galleries in Vancouver, BC, feature some quite significant and international artists, such as the pop-inspired Jim Dine and Robert Indiana, the abstract and minimalist Bernar Venet and Joel Shapiro, and the witty large-scale rabbits of Sophie Ryder. The funds for this event, dubbed the Kirkland International Sculpture Exhibit, have been pouring in; to date, $50,000 has been raised from sources such as the city of Kirkland, the King County Arts Commission, and the Jon and Mary Shirley Foundation. (The Shirleys are also major benefactors of the Olympic Sculpture Park, coming soon to a Seattle waterfront near you.) The exhibit is slated to run through May. EMILY HALL
Hello, Kiosks!
The welcome sight of two curiously telephone-pole-like public kiosks in the Pike-Pine corridor (one in front of Le Frock, one near Crescent Downworks) has prompted a crisis of compliments here at In Arts News. In short, who is responsible for these wonderful flyer-covered additions to our poster-banned city? Well, In Arts News has discovered whom you should pay your respects to: The kiosks (which are, curiously, still illegal under the city's billboard laws) are the brainchild of PPUNC (Pike-Pine Urban Neighborhood Coalition) co-founder Jori Adkins and Hi*Score owner Beth Fell. Former PPUNC chair Shireen Deboo helped engineer city funding, and artist Jeff Tangen designed them. Thanks, you civic-minded people! JAMIE HOOK
Cropper
Art Bar Reimburses
In a happy update, Art Bar owner Dana Everett called In Arts News to report that the establishment has in fact reimbursed artist Gloria Cropper $700 for her painting, stolen from the walls of the Art Bar the weekend of January 6 ["Stolen Painting Redux," In Arts News, Jan 25]. The painting was valued at $1,250, but Everett says $700 was the most the Art Bar could afford, since the reimbursement came out of the club's own pocket. TRACI VOGEL
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