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 ...

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 ...

A man who survived the murderous Khmer Rouge returns to Cambodia after 30 years away, surprising his American-born daughter, who has already traveled there to prosecute a case against one of its most ...

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, ...

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 ...

MinnPost’s journalists are out in the community to report on the things that are happening in Minnesota. Your support right now will help fund their work AND keep our news paywall-free. In “Cambodian ...

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 ...

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 ...

SYNOPSIS: Lauren Yee’s award-winning play-with-music is equal parts comedy, history, mystery and rock concert. The story centers on the resilient bond of family and the enduring power of music which ...

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 ...

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 ...