How a Playwright and Memoirist Spends His Sundays

Celebrating Lunar New Year (of the Snake) with a reading/talk on Chinese influence on "Our Town" from my memoir, "Our Laundry, Our Town." @dramabookshop , Thur, 1/30, 7:30pm. RSVP/Info link: https://t.co/d9a019xmwE

Thursday at @dramabookshop: Cycle 5's @AlvinEng8 and Cycle 16's Shoshana Greenberg discuss Eng's memoir OUR LAUNDRY, OUR TOWN and the under-chronicled Chinese artistic influence on Thornton Wilder's play OUR TOWN.

🌟 Join the @dramabookshop for an author talk on Our Laundry, Our Town with Alvin Eng (@AlvinEng8) & Shoshana Greenberg! 📅 Thursday, January 30th 📍 The Drama Book Shop 🎟️ Tickets: https://t.co/nRPMtUe3ab #ThorntonWilder #Community #LunarNewYear #OurTown #BroadwayClassics

Excited to be one of two Featured Presenters at @aaartsalliance's Town Hall on Memoir writing––Wed Nov 20, 6:30pm @BRICbrooklyn. I will be discussing the stage-to-page process of writing "Our Laundry, Our Town." Free event–info: https://t.co/lslzoWdrwL

Meeting "fellow" @nypl Fellows. Week 2 of my Long Term Fellowship to adapt my acoustic punk raconteur performance piece, "Here Comes Johnny Yen Again (or How I Kicked Punk)," into a companion book to my memoir, "Our Laundry, Our Town."

Thank you, @holly_bite!

For James Baldwin's centennial, I am grateful for his social/artistic legacy. Let us continue to celebrate and learn from this master. Here's a link to my 5-minute spoken word video homage, "History, Not Nostalgia: Crossroads 2021, For James Baldwin." https://t.co/VGECTnFy8h

Thank you, @nypl

Honored to be the subject of a new mini-doc, "Punk to Protest: Writing is Activism,"––directed by exciting young filmmaker, Ken Dai (@kendfilms). Hope you enjoy his cinematic skills and smarts as much as I do. Here's a YouTube link to the 10-minute video. https://t.co/xUs48MVNny

Thank you, @aaaricuny, for your support––now and always.

Thank you, @GMTWP, for sharing this news with our community! Hope everyone's having a wonderful summer.

It's official: I will be the 2024-25 NYPL Long-Term Fellow! I will research a companion piece to my memoir. This book will examine the profound impact of The Opium Wars/opium on NYC's Chinese diaspora and 1970s “heroin chic” punk counterculture, aka my NYC teenage years.

Looking forward!!!

The @talkingband's historic three-productions-in-five-months 50th Anniversary Season concludes with "Shimmer and Herringbone" at @MabouMines Theatre @122CC, May 1 - 19. For ticket info: https://t.co/MAG2VCD0HG

Thank you, @FordhamPress, for this Lunar New Year special. Gung Hay Fat Choy Happy Year of the Dragon to all! #ourlaundryourtown @aaww @GMTWP

🎇Happy Lunar New Year! 🐉We're ringing in the Year of the Dragon with a new edition of Our Laundry, Our Town: My Chinese American Life from Flushing to the Downtown Stage and Beyond by @AlvinEng8 📚 https://t.co/nKn7YP3f3g #NewinPaper #NYC #Memoir #ReadUP

Wendy congratulating Ellie Covan and Dixon Place after the beautiful finale performance of Concrete Temple Theatre's "Ernie's Secret Life." A moving mixture of puppetry and live performance. @DixonPlace @ConcreteTemple

Let's celebrate the Grand Re-Opening of @yuandmebooks this Sunday, Jan. 28, from 11am-7pm. Welcome back home to Chinatown, NYC, @lucyywaves and team!

Looking forward to the 50th Anniversary season of the venerable downtown theatre group, Talking Band (@talkingband). This landmark season will be comprised of three––yes, three!––productions in NYC between February and May. Production/ticket info: https://t.co/auzUT0plWq

“Our Laundry, Our Town” was named one of the Top Memoirs of 2023 by Yu & Me Books (@yuandmebooks)! So grateful. Support indie bookstores!