It’s 2008 and a father-daughter duo are heading to Phnom Penh; she to prosecute a notorious Cambodian war criminal, he 30 years after escaping then-Communist rule. In a psychedelic theatrical ...

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 ...

An American band has sparked outrage for naming themselves after a Cambodian genocide concentration camp, where the Khmer Rouge murdered thousands of Cambodians in the mid-1970s. The band faced ...

Hannah Arendt coined the phrase “banality of evil” when she was covering the trial of bureaucratic Holocaust engineer Adolph Eichmann. But she could have just as easily been describing Comrade Duch, ...

A play inspired by a band from Los Angeles is receiving its local premiere after traveling across the country since its debut at South Coast Repertory in 2018. “Cambodian Rock Band” by Lauren Yee will ...

Joe Ngo, Abraham Kim, Geena Quintos, Jane Lui and Moses Villarama in Alley Theatre’s co-production of Cambodian Rock Band Credit: Photo by Lynn Lane It’s not often you see a play about genocide and ...

In her play about genocide in 1970s Cambodia, Lauren Yee found something on the other side of evil to balance the horrors of the time. She chose music. "Cambodian Rock Band," which opened this week at ...

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Mention Cambodia to many Americans and the image that comes to mind is "the killing fields," photojournalist Dith Pran's term for the blood-soaked soil of his homeland. During the 1975-79 dictatorship ...

In the 1960s and 1970s, a new kind of music emerged in Cambodia—a psychedelic garage sound that combined the country's traditional music with elements borrowed from rock and pop records imported from ...

Alley Theatre has announced Cambodian Rock Band as the second Hubbard production in the 2022-23 season. Co-producing with Berkeley Repertory Theatre, the Signature Theatre Production of Cambodian Rock ...

Dengue Fever had come to the Big Apple to perform a concert in 2015, but it was an unrelated meet-up with Bay Area playwright Lauren Yee that is having a lasting impact for the Los Angeles band. “She ...