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Wakako Yamauchi - Japanese American Soul
Part 6: The Final Years
Yamauchi for the most part left playwriting behind her in the last decades of her life, devoting mo…
Ross M. Levine • Feb. 15, 2019
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Wakako Yamauchi - Japanese American Soul
Part 5: A Personal Portrait
What may be most notable about The Memento is what it reveals of the author herself, about her own …
Ross M. Levine • Feb. 8, 2019
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Wakako Yamauchi - Japanese American Soul
Part 4: Career as a Playwright
Yamauchi returned to the world of the Depression-era desert in The Music Lessons, which premiered i…
Ross M. Levine • Feb. 1, 2019
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Wakako Yamauchi - Japanese American Soul
Part 3: And the Soul Shall Dance
In 1974, Yamauchi’s life was about to change again as four Asian American writers began putting tog…
Ross M. Levine • Jan. 25, 2019
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Wakako Yamauchi - Japanese American Soul
Part 2: Postwar Years
Yamauchi’s elder sister Yukiko described to me the announcement that blared over the loudspeakers t…
Ross M. Levine • Jan. 18, 2019
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Wakako Yamauchi - Japanese American Soul
Part 1: Childhood and the War Years
Wakako Yamauchi, who died on August 16, 2018 at age 93, was a groundbreaking Japanese-American play…
Ross M. Levine • Jan. 11, 2019
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Playwright Wakako Yamauchi, Remembered for And The Soul Shall Dance
Wakako Yamauchi, a renowned Nisei writer best known for her play And the Soul Shall Dance, passed…
The Rafu Shimpo • Aug. 29, 2018
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