New annual Songwriter Festivals Celebrate Kingdom’s Musical Heritage — Raising Funds for Free Education of Khmer Children​ ...
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 ...
Guitars tuned. Mic checked. Get ready to rock. This electric new play with music tells the story of a Khmer Rouge survivor returning to Cambodia for the first time in thirty years, as his daughter ...
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 ...
Four decades after the Cambodian genocide decimated traditional art forms in the Southeast Asian country, a nonprofit organization is working with an award-winning composer to engage new musicians in ...
Cambodia has chosen 'In the Life of Music,' a drama that follows the fortunes of a family across three generations, as its entry for the best international feature film category at the 2020 Oscars. By ...
Cambodian singer Kak Channthy, the lead singer and songwriter of the Cambodian Space Project, died Tuesday in Phnom Penh. She was 38. Dubbed the Cambodian Amy Winehouse, Channthy was killed in a car ...