o Date: 9.6 (Fri) 7PM

o Location: Bing theater, USC (3500 Watt Way, Los Angeles, CA90089)

o Host: LA Korean Cultural Center, USC School of Dramatic Arts, USC Visions and Voices

o Ticket Reservation: https://visionsandvoices.usc.edu/eventdetails/?event_id=46624442974729&s_type=&s_genre=

* The RSVP is for free by selecting the KCCLA category on the USC Vision and Voices website at the link above from August 30.

* Tickets are first-come, first-served and must be picked up at the ticket booth at least 5 minutes before the performance on the day of the event. After that, tickets will be given to those waiting on site, and you may not be able to attend.

o Description:

Produced by Korea’s leading musical theatre company EMK, Frida: The Last Night Show is an virtuosic homage to Mexican artist Frida Kahlo’s life and work. Marking the 70th anniversary of Kahlo’s death In a concert format featuring four female actors, the show’s first U.S. showcase stars Korea’s musical theatrical phenom Sohyang Sophie Kim performing a female-centered, coalitional identity that transcends national borders and delivers a message of hope to the audience.?

After the performance, a panel on transnational creativity and the ethics of cross-cultural representations in musical theatre will feature Sohyang Sophie Kim and Frida: The Last Night Show’s writer/director Jung Hwa Choo and producer Sophy Jiwon Kim, along with USC faculty including English and American studies and ethnicity professor David Roman and School of Dramatic Arts professors Esther K. Chae and Luis Alfaro (moderator). What are the impacts and implications of musicals such as Frida, Hamilton, and SIX, in which actors perform identities from other cultures? As the entertainment industry becomes increasingly globalized and cultural texts travel beyond national borders, how do local identity politics become legible in different contexts

* This performance will be conducted in Korean with English subtitles.