EAST WEST PLAYERS: A HOME ON STAGE

The PBS SoCal Original Emmy® award-winning arts and culture series ARTBOUND presents “East West Players: A Home on Stage” as the sixth episode of its 14th season. ARTBOUND examines the contributions of California-based artists and art movements in today’s American culture.

For 58 years, East West Players theatre company has been hosting Asian American artists such as George Takei, John Cho, Daniel Dae Kim, James Hong and many others featured in this documentary. Through candid conversations, the film follows the opening of East West Players’ Season 57 world premiere musical On This Side of the World while chronicling the history of one of the longest running theatres of color in the United States.

ARTBOUND is supported in part by the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Department of Arts and Culture and Creative Recovery LA, the National Endowment for the Arts, and other generous institutional funders.

ABOUT ARTBOUND
ARTBOUND is the award-winning series that captures the spirit of the arts and culture community in Southern California and beyond. The Original series explores and illuminates the cultural issues of our times, providing critical in-depth analysis of how arts and culture affect society. ARTBOUND recognizes the need for access to the arts, arts education and connecting local artists with audiences and in fact, acts as Southern California’s largest stage. Utilizing public media as a space to find quality arts and culture programming, ARTBOUND reveals cultural touchstones that have shaped the fabric of the region’s communities and a nation whose story is indelibly linked to the arts.

About PBS SoCal
PBS SoCal uses the power of public media for good, strengthening the civic fabric of Southern California and providing our community with an essential connection to a wider world.

Credits
Producer: Yu Gu & Nic Cha Kim
Executive Producer: Tamara Gould & Angela Boisvert
Associate Producers: Denzel Jenkins & Marley Lister
Production Manager: Kathy Kasaba
Consulting Producer: Philip W. Chung
Director of Photography: Tom Campbell
Editor: Brian Redondo
Composer: Hua-Hsuan Tseng

Plays in

LA LIBERATION: VC x EWP

Watch Artbound episodes L.A. REBELLION: A CINEMATIC MOVEMENT and EAST WEST PLAYERS: A HOME ON STAGE, and relive the early moments of Visual Communications and East West Players.