Yellow Face

Yellow Face played a limited engagement on Broadway from September 13 through November 24, 2024 at the Todd Haimes Theatre.

Theatre Communications Group is set to publish Yellow Face (Broadway Edition) by David Henry Hwang, next month. This newly updated edition, reflecting the acclaimed 2024 Broadway revival, will be published on November 11, 2025, and is available now for pre-order.

Yellow Face played a limited engagement on Broadway from September 13 through November 24, 2024 at the Todd Haimes Theatre. Read the reviews here.

“David Henry Hwang has always challenged audiences to think more deeply about the power of theatre to illuminate the most complex corners of our identities,” said Emilya Cachapero, Co-Executive Director of National and Global Programming at TCG. “This new edition of Yellow Face gives readers the opportunity to revisit one of the most daring and insightful comedies in the contemporary canon.”

Inspired by the 1990s Broadway controversy over the “yellow face” casting of Welsh actor Jonathan Pryce as a Eurasian pimp in the musical Miss Saigon, Yellow Face spins a comic fantasy in which Asian American playwright DHH pens a play in protest, then unwittingly casts a white actor as the Asian lead in his own play.

Yellow Face premiered at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles in 2007, directed by Leigh Silverman, then moved to the Public Theater. It won a 2008 Obie Award for Playwriting and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. It premiered in London at the Park Theatre in 2013, in a production directed by Alex Sims, which transferred to the National Theatre in 2014.

Production photos of Yellow Face at the Public Theatre in 2007. Photos by Michal Daniel

Noah Bean. Photo by Michal Daniel for the Public Theatre, 2007

Hoon Lee and Francis Jue. Photo by Michal Daniel for the Public Theatre, 2007

Hoon Lee, Noah Bean, and Kathryn Layng. Photo by Michal Daniel for the Public Theatre, 2007

Hoon Lee and Noah Bean. Photo by Michal Daniel for the Public Theatre, 2007

Hoon Lee and Julienne Hanzelka Kim. Photo by Michal Daniel for the Public Theatre, 2007

Hoon Lee and Francis Jue. Photo by Michal Daniel for the Public Theatre, 2007

Francis Jue and Hoon Lee. Photo by Michal Daniel for the Public Theatre, 2007

Production photos from Yellow Face at the Silk Road Rising. Photos by Michael Brosilow

Pictured left to right: Joseph Anthony Foronda, Tanya McBride, David Rhee, Lydia Berger, Christopher Meister, and Christopher Popio (background). Photo by Michael Brosilow

David Rhee, and Tanya McBride. Photo by Michael Brosilow.

Clayton Stamper with ensemble members in the background. Photo by Michael Brosilow

Joseph Anthony Foronda and David Rhee. Photo by Michael Brosilow.

Joseph Anthony Foronda and David Rhee. Photo by Michael Brosilow.

David Rhee and Clayton Stamper. Photo by Michael Brosilow.

Golden Child

Jennifer Lim, Annie Q, Julyana Soelistyo, and Leslie Hu. Photo by Richard Termin, Signature Theater Production, 2012

Drawn from stories told to Hwang as a child by his grandmother about their family history, Golden Child tells of a wealthy and polygamous Chinese merchant in 1918, who embraces the new religion of Christianity. In so doing, he sets off a power struggle between his three wives, and forever changes the lives of his succeeding generations.

Golden Child premiered at the Public Theater in 1996, directed by James Lapine, and won a 1997 Obie Award for Playwriting, then moved in 1998 to Broadway, where it received a Tony Nomination for Best Play. It was revived at Signature Theatre in 2012, directed by Leigh Silverman.

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Production photos from the Golden Child at Signature Theatre in 2012. Photos by Richard Termin

Julyana Soelistyo and Leslie Hu. Photo by Richard Termin, Signature Theater Production, 2012

Greg Watanabe and Annie Q. Photo by Richard Termin, Signature Theater Production, 2012

Julyana Soelistyo & Annie Q. Photo by Richard Termin, Signature Theater Production, 2012

Jennifer Lim, Annie Q, Julyana Soelistyo, and Leslie Hu. Photo by Richard Termin, Signature Theater Production, 2012

Jennifer Lim, Greg Watanabe, Julyana Soelistyo, Leslie Hu, Tina Chilip, and Nadia Gan. Photo by Richard Termin, Signature Theater Production, 2012

Photos by Michal Daniels, from The Public Theater production in 1996.

Jodi Long, Lianna Pai, and Julyana Soelistyo Photo by Michal Daniels, from The Public Theater production in 1996.

Stan Egi, John Christopher Jones, and Julyana Soelistyo Photo by Michal Daniels, from The Public Theater production in 1996.

Tsai Chin and Julyana Soelistyo Photo by Michal Daniels, from The Public Theater production in 1996.

Jodi Long and Julyana Soelistyo Photo by Michal Daniels, from The Public Theater production in 1996.

Julyana Soelistyo, Jodi Long, and Tsai Chin Photo by Michal Daniels, from The Public Theater production in 1996.

Stan Egi and John Christopher Jones Photo by Michal Daniels, from The Public Theater production in 1996.

Lianna Pai and Tsai Chin Photo by Michal Daniels, from The Public Theater production in 1996.