In “Yellow Face,” Hwang (Kim) is writing “Face Value” in response to the yellow-face casting of Jonathan Pryce in the first Broadway production of “Miss Saigon,” in 1991.

"Face Value," the new Broadway comedy by the author of "M. Butterfly," closed before its official opening, shutting down after eight preview performances at a loss of more than two million dollars.

Hwang’s semiautobiographical play, “Yellow Face,” new on Broadway at the Roundabout Theatre, actually premiered some 17 years ago Off-Broadway, also under the solid direction of Leigh Silverman.

To describe “Yellow Face” as metatextual would be an understatement. Author David Henry Hwang, a professor at Columbia, is the main character of his own play, portrayed here by Daniel Dae Kim and ...

Playwright David Henry Hwang’s “Yellow Face” is currently running at Shotgun Players in Berkeley and on PBS’s Great Performances. The Berkeley production is more impactful than the streaming version, ...

From all that comes Yellow Face, in which Hwang comically recounts that ordeal with one big made-up addition: While Face Value dealt with issues of race in art, cultural appropriation and anti ...

Playwright David Henry Hwang’s impressive body of work includes several powerful plays exploring identity, often inspired by real events. Unfortunately, “Yellow Face,” now playing at the ...

Daniel Dae Kim will star in the Broadway premiere of David Henry Hwang’s Yellow Face next season. The play, which is inspired by real events, follows a playwright protesting the casting of white ...

Yellow Face debuted in 2007, was revived to much acclaim in 2024, and recently received several Tony Award nominations. PBS is now airing a recorded performance of the show.

Playing the character of “DHH,” the actor Daniel Dae Kim begins “Yellow Face,” the new production of David Henry Hwang’s play, standing within a box, from which he promptly strides out ...