Audacity to Create: Classic juxtaposes Chinese opera, immigrant labor and artistic freedom / by David Hwang

Scott Keiji Takeda and Tony Jin star in “The Dance and the Railroad.” (Stefanie Lau/Submitted)

The Latino Theater Company is doing something that hasn’t been done for decades.

The last time Los Angeles saw a full production of “The Dance and the Railroad,” it was 1993 and on the stage of East West Players. Now, 33 years later, David Henry Hwang’s two-hander returns to a former bank building on Spring Street.

It’s a play about immigrant laborers blasting a railroad through the Sierra Nevada, staged in the historic core of the city that labor helped build.

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