Firescape Theater to Present Revival of David Henry Hwang's YELLOW FACE

On Friday September 23rd at 8pm, San Francisco's Firescape Theatre will be opening a production of David Henry Hwang'shilarious and award-winning show, Yellow Face.

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Remembering Gene Wilder

David Henry Hwang reflects on his time working with Gene Wilder in a guest post on Angry Asian Man.

"It is generally known that the lead roles in the play for which I'm best known, M. Butterfly, were originated by two amazing actors, John Lithgow and B.D. Wong. They blessed my work with their iconic performances on Broadway in 1988. However, my play might have had quite a different trajectory. Originally cast in the Lithgow role was another legendary actor, whose death was announced earlier today: Gene Wilder."

Read the whole post at AngryAsianMan.com

How ‘Dream of the Red Chamber’ became an opera

Photo: Lea Suzuki, The Chronicle

For a writer who has done everything from mining an operatic masterpiece ( his 1988 Tony Award-winning drama “M. Butterfly”) to refashioning a problematic Broadway musical (“Flower Drum Song”) to devising the cross-cultural linguistic tangle of “Chinglish,” an offer to write the libretto for a “Dream of the Red Chamber” opera would seem too good to pass up.

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David Henry Hwang Named Chair of the American Theater Wing

Photo by Lia Chang

Playwright David Henry Hwang will succeed costume designer William Ivey Long as the chair of the American Theater Wing, the not-for-profit theater development organization that founded the Tony Awards.

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San Francisco Opera Presents World Premiere of DREAM OF THE RED CHAMBER, Sept. 10-29

San Francisco Opera presents the world premiere of Chinese-American composer Bright Sheng’s Dream of the Red Chamber, with a libretto by the composer and David Henry Hwang, in six performances from September 10–29, 2016. Read more

Interview with Asian CineVision

DAVID HENRY HWANG ON THE DANCE AND THE RAILROAD

On a California mountaintop in 1867 near the Transcontinental Railroad, two Chinese workers struggle through poverty and hunger to reconnect with the traditions of their homeland. THE DANCE AND THE RAILROAD follows the twice-extended GOLDEN CHILD as the second production in the Residency One: David Henry Hwang Series.