In her stunning playwriting debut, Korean American actress Jeena Yi has managed to create a masterpiece. Jesa, a Ma-Yi Theater Company production now playing at the Public Theater, is an instant ...

Read reviews for JESA at The Public Theater, the world premiere play by Jeena Yi. The production follows four sisters navigating family tensions during a traditional ritual. Critics are weighing in on ...

Where would the American theatre be without dead parents? Perhaps no event can bring estranged characters together more efficiently than a ritual about loss, and Jeena Yi’s Jesa explores one Korean ...

The Korean tradition of jesa, or memorializing ancestors, helped me understand that our loved ones continue to shape our lives long after they have departed. By Joseph Han According to my paternal ...

More than half of adults of South Korean nationality do not plan to continue holding the “jesa,” the traditional ritual held in honor of one’s ancestors, a recent survey showed. According to the Sung ...

Smartphones onstage can be weird and deadly, but one of the most striking moments in Jeena Yi’s Jesa happens as all the play’s actors are staring into one. In residence at the Public Theater, Ma-Yi ...

There’s only a week left until the country’s national holiday Chuseok, or Korean thanksgiving. Some may be looking forward to the long holiday but for many women, it’s a time they dread, as most of ...

Almost all Americans came from somewhere else. But as we become American, how and why do we choose to continue, abandon, or alter the traditions of our family? This is one of the many questions that ...