Exclusive: Paradigm has signed Tony Award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang, in all areas. He had been a longtime client of the agency’s Theater Lit department and moved over from CAA in film and TV. This comes as Hwang is scripting Zodiac Race for DreamWorks Animation and adapting his play Chinglish into a script he will produce with Bobbi Thompson, with Fast Five‘s Justin Lin directing. On the theater front, Hwang, best known for M. Butterfly, is currently adapting the Tsai Chen autobiography Daughter Of Shanghai to be the first production at the Wallis Annenberg Performing Arts Center in Beverly Hills. His play Chinglish opened on Broadway last year, with multiple productions scheduled around the country. He was recently named the Residency One Playwright for New York’s Signature Theatre during the 2012-2013 season: his play Golden Child opens October 23rd there; Dance And The Railroad begins previews on February 5th,...
- 8/13/2012
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
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Throughout summer it has been difficult to ignore the recent Chinoiserie trend in stores and magazines, kick-started by the opulent Louis Vuitton show in Paris and merged effortlessly into autumn by Paul Smith. Cheongsam collars and qipao slits aside, this new-found interest in the East may have been partly triggered by China’s growing appetite for high-end goods, which despite recent economic setbacks, has left Western luxury brands competing for a share of this very sizable market.
This obsession with the ‘Orient’ has also seen a proliferation of Asian models on catwalks and throughout editorial spreads, which has courted controversy for some publications and raises all manner of questions regarding ethnicity and standards of beauty. Whilst researching this trend it becomes impossible not to contemplate the...
Throughout summer it has been difficult to ignore the recent Chinoiserie trend in stores and magazines, kick-started by the opulent Louis Vuitton show in Paris and merged effortlessly into autumn by Paul Smith. Cheongsam collars and qipao slits aside, this new-found interest in the East may have been partly triggered by China’s growing appetite for high-end goods, which despite recent economic setbacks, has left Western luxury brands competing for a share of this very sizable market.
This obsession with the ‘Orient’ has also seen a proliferation of Asian models on catwalks and throughout editorial spreads, which has courted controversy for some publications and raises all manner of questions regarding ethnicity and standards of beauty. Whilst researching this trend it becomes impossible not to contemplate the...
- 10/18/2011
- by Contributor
- Clothes on Film
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