Each person is a mystery in East West Players' lively 'Chinglish'
"Use at your own risk," the local vice minister of culture says enigmatically to an Ohio businessman seeking a contract in China.
"Use at your own risk," the local vice minister of culture says enigmatically to an Ohio businessman seeking a contract in China.
Editor's note: This Perspective piece is in response to Hayley Huntley's latest Fixated column, "Misunderstanding Chinglish in the Best Way Possible". In it, she outlines a moment of "The…
by HAYLEY HUNTLEY once saw a production of Urinetown: The Musical at an amphitheater in Carson City, Nevada. It was summer in a desert, so when it began to rain in the second act, that w…
It's more than just jokes about fractured language.
David Henry Hwang’s (M. Butterfly) latest play, Chinglish, began rehearsals on Monday, September 12 at the New 42 Studios on West 42nd Street. This uproariously funny new comedy exp…
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Tony Award-winning David Henry Hwang’s (M. Butterfly) new play Chinglish opened on Broadway Thursday, October 27th at the Longacre Theatre on 48th Street. Â This witty comedy about a…
NY1's Frank DiLella recently traveled to check out a new staging of David Henry Hwang's play "Chinglish," as the play is being performed in Asia for the first time.
Jason Robert Brown's The Last Five Years, a rock musical re-telling of the Lizzie Borden story, and Katori Hall's Olivier Award-winning play The Mountaintop will be part of Port…
CHINGLISH Henry David Hwang Takes us on an Adventure in Modern China Review by Deborah Klugman When playwright Henry David Hwang traveled to China in 2005, he visited a brand new cultural ar…
Los Angeles Times 02/09/13
The playwright wanted to see 'Chinglish' produced in mainland China, but says the Bo Xilai and Gu Kailai scandal derailed it. It will play a Hong Kong festival.David Henry Hwang knows firsth…
An American businessman visits a provincial Chinese metropolis in this timely consideration of socio-cultural relations.read more
David Henry Hwang's cross-cultural comedy of ideas, now playing at South Coast Repertory, shows how words, manners and mores can get lost in translation.Words aren't the only thing that gets…
Larry Coen directs "Chinglish"'s awkwardly written romance with a savory earnestness, but he can't put the pieces of the fragmented script (you laugh/you cry) together.
The gorgeous Broadway productions of Follies, Chinglish and Death of a Salesman, as well as the off-Broadway drama Tribes, all received 2012 Henry Hewes Design Awards. These four production…
The 2012 Henry Hewes Design Awards recipients are David Korins (Chinglish), Gregg Barnes (Follies), Brian MacDevitt (Death of a Salesman) and Daniel Kluger (Tribes), the HHDA committee annou…
LANGUAGE AND CUSTOM ARE SOURCES OF HILARITY IN CHINGLISH At a time when Americans may feel a little uneasy about the rising power of China, Berkeley Repertory Theatre offers us a chance to s…
Two-time Obie-winning director Leigh Silverman (Chinglish, In the Wake) will be among the guest judges on the 2012-13 panel for the Village Voice’s 58th annual Obie Awards. Each year t…
Berkeley Repertory Theatre opens its 2012-2013 season with the clever comedy Chinglish by David Henry Hwang in a co-production with the South Coast Repertory Company.
Berkeley Repertory Theatre's season-opening production of Chinglish by David Henry Hwang presents the best possible circumstances to witness communication happening under the worst possible …
The West Coast premiere of David Henry Hwang's comedy of cultural misunderstandings, Chinglish, directed by Leigh Silverman, who helmed the Broadway staging, opens Aug. 29 following prev…
David Henry Hwang won three Obies and the Tony Award for Best Play with popular scripts like M. Butterfly and FOB. Now hes back with a canny comedy of cross-cultural errors, CHINGLISH, which…