I wrote a piece about adapting John Okada's NO NO BOY to the stage and it's just been published on Discover Nikkei:
http://www.discovernikkei.org/en/journal/2009/8/31/no-no-boy/(note: The very first reading will be at the Miles Memorial Auditorium, 1130 Lincoln Blvd., Santa Monica as part of MAPID's BREAKING THE BOW Festival at 2pm, Sunday, October 25.