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AST celebrates and broadens cultural understanding by dramatizing Asian and Pacific Island stories Additional productions followed each year.

Asian Story Theater began in 1989, dramatizing Chinese folk tales as a project sponsored by the San Diego Chinese Center. The first production was The White Snake (1989-90), presented at the Lyceum Space Theatre and subsequently toured to county schools, libraries, and recreation centers. In 1991 the company staged it's first adaptation based on the 16th century fantasy novel Journey to the West, featuring the Monkey King. In 1995 the company incorporated as the Asian Story Theater, independent of the San Diego Chinese Center, to diversify programming and expand touring operations to San Francisco and Los Angeles. Each year since, we have produced at least one production in pursuit of our mission. Touring and scale of production has varied widely, depending on funding, talent, and venue availability. Ongoing challenges in working with school audiences have led us to increasingly diverse efforts, this year including a full-length musical about the artist Paul Gauguin (August-September 2011), as well as partnering to produce a pilot television episode, based on our 2006 project Shave Ice (December 2011). We are also commmitted to continuing a series of relatively small, annual theater productions related to the Lunar New Year Celebrations--for at least the next 6 years!

06/15/2026

✨Asian Story Theater performing at the 𝗔𝘀𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗣𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰 𝗜𝘀𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗙𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗮𝗹, June 13, 2026 at the San Diego County Fair. Featuring songs from 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙇𝘼𝙎𝙏 𝘾𝙀𝙉𝙎𝙐𝙎, 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙂𝙊𝙇𝘿𝙀𝙉 𝙍𝙐𝙇𝙀, 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝘾𝙊𝙁𝙁𝙀𝙀 𝙋𝙇𝘼𝙔𝙎, 𝙒𝙃𝘼𝙏 𝘼𝙍𝙀 𝙔𝙊𝙐?, 𝙈𝙐𝙎𝙄𝘾𝘼𝙇 𝙋𝘼𝙐𝙇 𝙂𝘼𝙐𝙂𝙐𝙄𝙉, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝘽𝙀𝘾𝙊𝙈𝙄𝙉𝙂 𝘼𝙈𝙀𝙍𝙄𝘾𝘼𝙉. Performers include Dey Fernandez, Frankie Taitingfong, Andy Fernandez, Gingerlily Lowe, Rhys Green, and Kent Brisby.

𝘈𝘚𝘛 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘣𝘺𝘴 𝘍𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘊𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘢 𝘈𝘳𝘵𝘴 𝘊𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘭, 𝘊𝘢𝘭 𝘏𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴, 𝘊𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘢𝘯 𝘋𝘪𝘦𝘨𝘰.

06/14/2026

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06/13/2026

We’re very fortunate to be featured this year (AGAIN) at the San Diego County Fair’s Asian and Pacific Islander Festival 2026! Come say hi at the booth, or catch our 2 PM musical performance at the Chevrolet Paddock Stage — see ya there! 🎪🎭🎸🎶🎨☕️🎉🎉🎉

06/09/2026

Asian Story Theater will be performing at the Asian & Pacific Festival at the San Diego Fair and 2:00 pm on Saturday June 13, 2026. Come say hello at our booth.

The rich cultures of our largest continent come to the Fair through dance, music, martial arts, and more. Take a trip to China, Japan, India, Vietnam, the South Seas, the Philippines and other Asian and Pacific nations.

06/07/2026

Thank you San Diego Chinese Women’s Association for your support of Asian Story Theater. We are so grateful and appreciative of all the encouragement and support you have given us over the years to share Asian and Chinese culture through our stories and performances. Especially significant in these difficult times. Also, we want to celebrate Meijean Chan, who was one of the founders of SDCWA 45 years ago and was awarded a Lifetime Membership today. Your good work continues on. ❤️

05/21/2026

Support the arts and Celebrate AAPI Month by coming to the San Diego International Fringe Festival to see Asian Story Theater’s BIG MONEY. A story from the remote Micronesian island of YAP.
We have 2 more shows left.
9:00 pm May 21st
7:30 pm. May 23rd
At No Limits 4931 Logan Ave San Diego

https://sdfringe.org/events/big-money/

There’s lots of great performance art to see at the Fringe. A tag is only$7.00 and all the shows are $13.00 or less.

Hope to see you there!

Catch the world-famous “You’re O-K, I’m O’Keefe” Dance Spectacular, the story of Irish-American Adventurer David Dean O’Keefe! How he rescued an island that barely survived for 2000 years without him! At least until the dancers take over the narrative. Then it’s the truth of this very ...

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https://asianstorytheater.org/

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