Diep Tran Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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I spoke to novelist Jenny Han about being a show runner for the first time on THE SUMMER I TURNED PRETTY on @PrimeVideo, and why she decided to make her main character, who was not Asian in the books, Asian for the show. https://t.co/65gvLfGx6A

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I’m finally reading @_Jen_Silverman’s WE PLAY OURSELVES and I got to the line: “You’re in a dysfunctional relationship with the theatre.” Jen, how dare you call me out like that

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I recommend you all read RESISTING THE ATTENTION ECONOMY by Jenny Odell because it lays out how under modern capitalism, attention is not neutral. It has become something to be monetized.

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The genius about DOWNSTATE by Bruce Norris @phnyc is in a world that is striving to simplify things into black and white, it is determined to live in the grey. And to ask real questions about justice and rehabilitation

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Yes! The show has 3 Asian actors and 1 Black actor in its main cast. After decades of fantasy series treating magic as normal but brown faces as aberrant, SHADOW AND BONE is so refreshing. And it’s well written. https://t.co/HrNGtUvjF7

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@carsonclambert Yup, though the 1992 flop musical SHOGUN had a Japanese-American composer. And David Henry Hwang wrote the book for the FLOWER DRUM SONG revival.

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My review of THE MINUTES, which had the potential to be a searing exploration of white identity (like Will Arbery’s HEROES OF THE FOURTH TURNING) but instead chooses to pull its punches https://t.co/dzFhQIICKs

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It's truly moving to see the audience stand up for Michael R. Jackson. A STRANGE LOOP is truly the people's musical! #TonyAward

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SKELETON CREW should have won best new play and TROUBLE IN MIND should have won play revival. The former had a better script that was not just a Wikipedia summary. The latter because liberals need to stop proving Alice Childress right #TonyAwards

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This was my second thought, after shouting HOLY SHIT at THE THANKSGIVING PLAY, a brilliant satire, by Larissa Fasthorse getting to Broadway. Keanu Reeves did a Zoom reading of it during the pandemic so I’m really excited to see who’s going to be in the cast https://t.co/I4BQlQqtel