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Advanced Reporting: The City

Broadway’s Expanding Definition of Diversity

13 min readMay 7, 2024

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Broadway’s Expanding Definition of Diversity

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Ray Ryan Kao
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Advanced Reporting: The City

By Dinnertime, Community Takes Center Stage at Joe Allen

The beloved Broadway safe space serves diners without much flair. However, what Joe Allen lacks in pizzazz, it makes up for with…

7 min readMar 12, 2024

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By Dinnertime, Community Takes Center Stage at Joe Allen

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Ray Ryan Kao

#CoreCore: Gen-Z’s Nihilism at Full Blast

I feel like I live in an age of doom. One second there’s a mass shooting, then there’s a flesh-eating fungus, then Trump gets on the ballot…

9 min readMar 10, 2024

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#CoreCore: Gen-Z’s Nihilism at Full Blast

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Ray Ryan Kao

“After Yang” Review: What Makes Someone Asian?

Kogonada’s second feature film explores death, memory, and what it means to have an identity.

4 min readFeb 20, 2024

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“After Yang” Review: What Makes Someone Asian?

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Ray Ryan Kao

“Stick Season” Review: A Post-Pandemic Meditation On Change

Written in March 2023

5 min readFeb 20, 2024

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“Stick Season” Review: A Post-Pandemic Meditation On Change

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Ray Ryan Kao
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Advanced Reporting: The City

How Musical Theater Historian Margaret Hall Sees Broadway’s Future

By Ray Kao

5 min readFeb 20, 2024

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How Musical Theater Historian Margaret Hall Sees Broadway’s Future

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Ray Ryan Kao
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NYU Journalistic Inquiry

Broadway and its Up-and-Comers Reexamine Overwork

The theatre industry has traditionally been reliant on overworking its employees for its success. In the world of COVID, professionals and…

5 min readDec 14, 2021

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Broadway and its Up-and-Comers Reexamine Overwork

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Ray Ryan Kao
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NYU Journalistic Inquiry

Broadway’s Coming Back. Are Its Problems Coming With It?

Though the theaters have been shut down, talk surrounding Broadway’s systemic issues has been far from. Now it’s time to see how Broadway…

5 min readNov 8, 2021

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Ray Ryan Kao

Ray Ryan Kao

I'm a Theater, Culture, and Diversity Advocacy writer interested in the intersections of art, the Asian immigrant experience, and how the world heals!

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