Flower Drum Song Redux

Featured in Performances Magazine, broadstage, March 2026

THE 60TH season of the East West Players concludes with the world premiere of Tony Awardwinning David Henry Hwang’s updated book for Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Flower Drum Song.

Krista Marie Yu* as Linda Low

The reimagined musical, April 16-May 31 at the Japanese American Cultural & Community Center’s Aratani Theatre, centers on a young Chinese opera artist who flees communism in the 1960s and finds herself in San Francisco’s Chinatown nightclubs. Lily Tung Crystal directs. The cast incudes Grace Yoo, Emily Kuroda and Marc Oka; Krista Marie Yu makes her company debut. 

For more shows on the issue: Performances Magazine | broadstage, March 2026
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Location: 244 San Pedro Street, Los Angeles
Date: April 16-May 31, 2026

Photo credits: Photo courtesy of Performances Magazine | broadstage, March 2026

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