DHH (Daniel Dae Kim) brings Marcus G. (Ryan Eggold) to a talkback with Asian American students, where the question of his ethnicity and his portrayal of an Asian character comes up in this s…
On today's show: a San Francisco actor who was recently nominated for a Tony, then how the podcast "Folktales from Sudan" teaches us life lessons, ...
Over the course of 25 years, Scott Ellis has been nominated at the Tony Awards for directing nine times, but has never emerged victorious. This year, he earned three more bids for producing:…
David Henry Hwang (Daniel Dae Kim) shares a phone call with his father in the wake of the Miss Saigon casting controversy.
The post David Henry Hwang Calls His Father in "Yellow Face" appear…
PBS has shared a clip from the upcoming Great Performances broadcast of David Henry Hwang's Yellow Face, which ran on Broadway in 2024. In the new clip, David Henry Hwang (played by Daniel D…
The three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist explains why he structured the comedy as a pseudo-documentary and how putting himself at the center freed up audiences.
"In 17 years, I think every single cell in your body has changed over at least once. I think that I changed more than the play did," says Francis Jue in reference to the play Yellow Face. Th…
David Henry Hwang was already a Pulitzer Prize finalist for his comedy Yellow Face back in 2007, but the acclaimed play only just landed on Broadway this season courtesy of Roundabout Theate…
PBS has confirmed that the recording of Roundabout Theatre Company's production of David Henry Hwang's Yellow Face will air on Friday, May 16 as part of the Great Performances se…
Francis Jue talks with Observer about his role in the Broadway revival of David Henry Hwang's 'Yellow Face.' "David wrote it 20 years ago, but it feels like it's a play of today. We're still…
Great Performances has announced it will capture Roundabout Theatre Company's production of David Henry Hwang's Yellow Face for premiere on PBS. The Great Performances…
I was the New York Daily News reporter who broke the historic story about the casting controversy over Jonathan Pryce in Miss Saigon. That led to protests and a dramatic showdown between Act…
Tony-nominated Suffs director Leigh Silverman directed David Henry Hwang's play Yellow Face. The Roundabout Theatre Company production is now playing at Todd Haimes Theatre.
Seventeen years after he first appeared in "Yellow Face," the veteran actor Francis Jue has returned with a nuanced performance as a blustery patriarch.
Something old becomes new again with the current production of "Yellow Face" by Roundabout Theatre, which has been produced nationally, and internationally since it opened off-Broadway at th…
Clearly, Hwang's playwright-within-the-play has been on a colorful journey, full of characters that amuse, anger and move him. Hwang's genius here is his ability to spin his real life in…
