Sometimes a work can take hold of you and never let you go. All you want to do is return to it. For Leigh Silverman, that work was David Henry Hwang’s play Yellow Face which she directed at the Public ...

Michael Hisamoto in "Yellow Face" at Lyric Stage. (Courtesy Mark S. Howard) Playwright David Henry Hwang’s impressive body of work includes several powerful plays exploring identity, often inspired by ...

Back in 1990, the playwright David Henry Hwang protested a decision by the British theatrical producer Cameron Mackintosh to bring Jonathan Pryce, the widely admired British star of his hit London ...

Inspired by the real-life controversy over the casting of Broadway’s “Miss Saigon,” playwright David Henry Hwang pens the sharp-witted comedy “Yellow Face” that blends satire with faux-documentary ...

David Henry Hwang’s Yellow Face debuted Off Broadway 17 years ago, spinning a farcical tale about a real-life Broadway controversy that had taken place some 17 years before that. How it manages to be ...

David Henry Hwang’s play Yellow Face exemplifies the diversity-inclusion-equity (DIE) games that no doubt will continue at the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) even after federal funding is withdrawn ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick David Henry Hwang’s 2007 play, now in a fine Broadway revival, is a pointed critique of identity, masquerading as a mockumentary. By ...

Francis Jue at the Yellow Face press event. Marcus Middleton Francis Jue as HYH and Daniel Dae Kim DHH in Yellow Face. Joan Marcus Henry Yuan Hwang started out a laundryman, took a sharp right turn ...