After 14 years at Hanna-Barbera.

and summer school musicals in elementary schools.doing anything I am asked to do with East West Players since the mid-1980s.

as well as one hour before all performances.and fully human characters breathing and doing their best to live life right in front of me.The multicultural cast includes Tamlyn Tomita as the adult women.

“Wassail!”Rafu: Please describe your characters in Spring Awakening.the play is set in 1891 Germany.

Rafu: Are you working with most of the cast members for the first time?Tomita: Every single cast member is new.

and how we teach children — it’s all here in this musical — and teen angst breaks out in order to be heard and seen.This is a club whose membership I wish on no one.

where 18 people have lost their lives and more than a dozen are critically injured:Judy ChuIm heartbroken about yesterday evenings mass shooting in Maine.was found dead on Friday night.

The new speaker of the House has an opportunity to unite Congress and help put a stop to gun violence in America.who I know are now enduring unimaginable loss and face a long road toward recovery.