Hwang got his start at the Public, where his "F.O.B." and "The Dance and the Railroad" found wide audiences under the nurturing eye of founder Joseph Papp. "Yellow Face" is a remarkable home…
"Yellow Face" - the smart and delightful and scary new quasi-mock-autobiographical docudrama that opened last night - expands assumptions about race into danger zones first opened by Papp's …
David Henry Hwang's Yellow Face is not so much a case of digging up the corpses of the Miss Saigon casting dispute and his failed play, Face Value, but a continuing chapter in his focus - so…
It makes for an overstuffed evening, but director Leigh Silverman manages to keep the many strands of the story relatively tangle free, and she moves the detailed plot with surprising swiftn…
Unfortunately, the play is too metatheatrical for its own good. It turns into more of a confessional than a drama with any kind of structure or development. Still, one hopes Hwang, author of…
In the end, this play is less about racial politics and identity than about compromising one's artistic vision -- giving in to pressures to be what one is not just to satisfy the crowd (or t…
By Mike Lew. I would posit that when it comes to writers of color, we're being subjected to an anthropological gaze that places our plays under the context of "ethnic work," some kind of cat…
MISS SAIGON will make its highly anticipated return to the West End tonight, May 21, 2014 at the Prince Edward Theatre, in the musical's 25th anniversary year. In a recent interview with the…
David Henry Hwang's new play is the latest in a series of interlinked works including Madame Butterfly that question racial and social attitudesThere's a phenomenon in pop music of the &qu…
What happens when a Brit (Lucy Fenton) and an American (Kevin Shen) with a passion for theatre and acting come together, decide to make theatre, and star in it? Well, apparently it becomes t…
National Theatre: Yellow Face - audience reactions
Yellow Face
by David Henry Hwang
Presented by Special Relationship Productions
Find out more: http://ow.ly/wNmT2
See what the audience t…
Miss Saigon is about to return to the West End, opening at the Prince Edward Theatre on May 21, and though this production has had a smooth road to opening night so far, the original product…
