Over the 50 years since the first Vietnam War-era Southeast Asian refugees arrived in the U.S., there’s been hardship — but there have also been plenty of comedic moments, which is where the ...

Viet Thanh Nguyen grew up in America with war movies like Apocalypse Now and Platoon, which offer accounts of the war focusing on Americans. His new novel, The Sympathizer, follows a Vietnamese spy.

Weekend Picks Funny Asian Women Kollective brings no-holds-barred comedy to the Fitzgerald Expect the talented group to take on the issues of the day without much care for who might be offended.

Plays about Vietnam often nest in an American-centric need to self-flagellate. How refreshing that New York playwright Qui Nguyen writes from the perspective of people who lost their country and ...

Funny Asian Women Kollective's "The Extra Quality Super Show" is happening Nov. 8 at The Fitzgerald Theater.

Nguyen is Vietnamese-American, and was just 4 years old when his family fled South Vietnam in 1975. He now studies ethnicity in America as a professor at the University of Southern California.

Funny Asian Women Kollective's "The Extra Quality Super Show" is happening Friday, Nov. 8 at The Fitzgerald Theater.

May Lee-Yang and Saymoukda Vongsay, co-founders of the Funny Asian Women Kollective. Their Extra Quality Super Show is next Friday, November the 8th, at the Fitzgerald Theater in downtown St. Paul.