Compiled by Mary Tablante 1. Malala Releases Memoir; Visits White House Malala Yousafzai, the youngest person ever to be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for her work advocating for girls’ and women’s education, released her memoir, I Am Malala, on Oct. 8. The release date marks one year after a Taliban gunman shot Yousafzai when she was riding a …
Read More »Signature’s Miss Saigon is Moving But Lacks Depth [Theater Review]
By Jenny Chen It is the 1970s and Ho Chi Minh city is in shambles. American boots thunder throughout the city; the streets are crawling with the poor and destitute. This is the setting for Signature Theatre’s production of Miss Saigon – a play based on Giacomo Puccini’s opera Madame Butterfly, and the eleventh longest running Broadway show in musical …
Read More »