Charlie Chaplin’s Confidante in spotlight off-broadway
My Man Kono
Now through Sunday, March 9
A.R.T./New York Mezzanine Theatre – 502 W. 53rd Street (between 10th and 11th Avenues)
Admission: $77 | $66 Seniors | $39 Students (prices include fees)
Pan Asian Repertory Theatre presents the world premiere of My Man Kono, a play by LA-based writer and producer Philip W. Chung directed by Jeff Liu, an Artistic Producer for the Ojai Playwrights Conference.
In the heyday of silent films, Japanese émigré Toraichi Kono, in pursuit of the American Dream, becomes a loyal confidante of film star Charlie Chaplin. But at the dawn of WWII, he is swept up in anti-Japanese hysteria and accused of espionage. Conlan Ledwith portrays the silent screen star with Brian Lee Huynh as his man Kono.
“It’s a fascinating and distinctively American story about a figure from our cultural history we should know better,” writes Zachary Stewart in his review of the biographical off-Broadway production on theatermania.com.
Remembering Executive Order 9066
This Wednesday, February 19 Pan Asian Rep is celebrating the AANHPI community on AANHPI Affinity Night/Day of Remembrance. The evening is in recognition of the 83rd anniversary of Executive Order 9066, President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s directive issued February 19, 1942, authorizing the forced relocation and incarceration of more than 120,000 Japanese Americans, two-thirds of whom were U.S. citizens, in remote internment camps. Pan Asian Rep is offering a special discount to theatergoers on February 19. Enter code AANHPI at checkout for $55 tickets.
To purchase tickets, please visit panasianrep.org.
Conlan Ledwith (left) as Charlie Chaplin and Brian Lee Huynh as Toraichi Kono in My Man Kono. Photo: ©Russ Rowland
Performance Schedule
Tuesdays through Saturdays at 7:00 p.m.
Saturdays and Sundays at 2:30 p.m.
The run time is approximately two hours including an intermission.
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