The final production at Long Wharf Theatre’s longtime home was a play called Flying Bird’s Diary, read last weekend by a cast of 10 behind a tidy arc of music stands. In a scene that ends the play’s first half, a Mohegan girl named Flying Bird, played by DeLanna Studi, receives news from an older […]
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On Display
The first Chinese woman to arrive in America is believed to have been a teenager named Afong Moy, who was put on public display, beginning in New York City in 1834, as The Chinese Lady. “AFONG MOY is a native of Canton city, about sixteen years of age, mild and engaging in her manners,” reads […]