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"moreinfo": "<div class=\"section\" id=\"For_More_Information\">\n <h2>\n <span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"For_More_Information\">\n For More Information\n </span>\n </h2>\n <div class=\"section_content\">\n <p>\n Colborn-Roxworthy, Emily. \"Trading 'Earnest Drama' for Prophecy: Performing Japanese American Internment after 9/11\".\n <i>\n Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism\n </i>\n 20.2 (Spring 2006): 25–48.\n </p>\n <p>\n Kennedy Center website:\n <a class=\"external free offsite\" href=\"http://www.kennedy-center.org/events/?event=KGYBC\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n http://www.kennedy-center.org/events/?event=KGYBC\n </a>\n .\n </p>\n <p>\n Seattle Children's Theatre page:\n <a class=\"external free offsite\" href=\"https://www.sct.org/Shows/2017-2018-Season/BenUchida\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n https://www.sct.org/Shows/2017-2018-Season/BenUchida\n </a>\n </p>\n <p>\n Xu, Wenying.\n <i>\n Historical Dictionary of Asian American Literature and Theater\n </i>\n . Blue Ridge Summit, Pa.: Scarecrow Press, 2012. 118.\n </p>\n <p>\n Wren, Celia. \"\n <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/14/AR2006031401791_pf.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n In 'Citizen 13559,' Innocents Abroad at Home\n </a>\n \".\n <i>\n Washington Post\n </i>\n , March 15, 2006.\n </p>\n <!-- \nNewPP limit report\nCached time: 20230613175313\nCache expiry: 86400\nDynamic content: false\nComplications: []\nCPU time usage: 0.016 seconds\nReal time usage: 0.022 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 259/1000000\nPost‐expand include size: 3933/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 277/2097152 bytes\nHighest expansion depth: 6/40\nExpensive parser function count: 0/100\nUnstrip recursion depth: 0/20\nUnstrip post‐expand size: 0/5000000 bytes\nExtLoops count: 0\n-->\n <!--\nTransclusion expansion time report (%,ms,calls,template)\n100.00% 10.680 1 -total\n 25.63% 2.737 1 Template:RelatedArticles\n 21.44% 2.290 1 Template:RGDatabox-Core\n 14.17% 1.513 1 Template:Databox-Plays\n 12.79% 1.366 1 Template:RelatedArticlesSection\n 12.48% 1.333 1 Template:Published\n 12.29% 1.313 1 Template:AuthorByline\n 12.08% 1.290 1 Template:publish-rgonly\n-->\n <!-- Saved in parser cache with key encycmw:pcache:idhash:2517-0!canonical and timestamp 20230613175313 and revision id 28749\n -->\n </div>\n</div>"
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