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The Artists at Play Spring Readings 2026 are new plays commissioned and developed as part of the AAP Playwrights Group: The Neighborhood Project, creating new work that uncovers the rich cultural histories and vibrant social fabric within Asian ethnic enclaves throughout Los Angeles County.

Developed as part of AAP Playwrights Group: The Neighbohood Project, these new plays will take place throughout Los Angeles through June.

Saturday, March 21 at 2 pm

Dough Broke
by Sarah Cho

directed by Rebecca Wear

Los Angeles Theatre Center

Set in the Koreatown Plaza food court, Dough Broke follows a family whose deepest wishes go unfulfilled until a magical dumpling unexpectedly comes to life. Blending comedy and absurdity, the play explores the longing for what feels just out of reach and what happens when the thing you’ve wished for finally arrives.

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Sunday, April 26 at 2pm

It’s Harder Than It Looks
by Carolyn Huynh

directed by Jennifer Chang

Los Angeles Theatre Center

At Josie’s mother’s funeral, three eccentric women crash the service claiming to be her mother’s badminton group. While learning how to play in the El Monte badminton gyms, Josie attempts to unpack the secret life her mother had and the mysterious circumstances around her death. Meanwhile, Josie’s dead mother’s ghost has a secret plan of her own—to get Josie to live a little.

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Tuesday, May 26 at 5 pm

California Gold
by Katherine Chou

directed by Rebecca Wear

NOTE different venue: Cerritos Library

It’s senior year, and Noor, Sameera, Radhika, and Jennifer are going to save the world and be best friends forever…until a ritual goes awry, uncovering rifts that threaten to tear apart their friendship and hometown. As ghosts of lands new and old spill out into the streets of Cerritos and Artesia, the girls must navigate the external gaze, uncertain futures, and histories they barely understand to decide who they are and will be.

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Sunday, June 7 at 2 pm

Djinn
by Aditi Pradhan

directed by Reena Dutt

Los Angeles Theatre Center

In 2024, Nasrin and her son, Ayan, live in Little Bangladesh in an apartment that Nasrin is sure is filled with djinns. In 1947, Lata and her son, Rahul, navigate being two of the first South Asians in the United States – while living in the same apartment. When revolution breaks out in each of their respective homelands in each of their respective time periods, Lata’s and Nasrin’s worlds will intersect in ways that they never imagined.

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