Laura Mam is one of Cambodia's biggest pop stars, but she wasn't born or raised in the country. She's American, and even though both of her parents are originally from Cambodia, she hardly spoke a ...
A new live performance at the South Coast Repertory in Orange County spotlights the Cambodian music scene before the Khmer Rouge regime. People don't often consider how Cambodia’s brutal Khmer Rouge ...
The play, based on what happened to musicians who were outlawed during the Khmer Rouge regime, is a powerful, if uneven, mix of music and history.
You'll cry. You'll laugh. You'll dance. Despite all of the tragedy inherent to "Cambodian Rock Band," "dancing is heavily encouraged, especially at the end," says director Nelson T. Eusebio III. But ...
Families, their histories, and family relationships always yield rich fodder for dramatic stories, a fact storytellers and playwrights have long realized. Playwright Lauren Yee adheres to that tenet, ...
La Jolla Playhouse just opened the play "Cambodian Rock Band" by UC San Diego graduate Lauren Yee. The play serves up a redemptive tale of a father and daughter finding each other amidst decades-old ...
Cambodia's 2020 foreign-language Oscar submission, 'In the Life of Music,' deals with the stories and songs that define the Killing Fields genocide generation, says co-director Caylee So. By Mathew ...
Laura Mam is Cambodian American, and her mother, Thida Buth, is a Khmer Rouge survivor. They're fostering the pop music movement in Cambodia that... Across Languages And Generations, One Family Is ...