As the year closes, four publications from the fall and winter of 2025 offer exciting reading for lovers of entertaining and significant theater. They include the books of two recent productions that garnered both critical acclaim and awards, a trilogy of works presenting the culture, history, and perspectives of Indigenous people – all published by Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the largest independent publisher of dramatic literature in North America – and a research volume of the bloodiest shows from the early history of Broadway.
Yellow Face – The latest 2024 Broadway production from Tony winner, Pulitzer Prize finalist, Grammy recipient, and the most produced living American opera librettist David Henry Hwang, which debuted Off-Broadway in 2007, takes a hilarious, quasi-autobiographical, self-deprecating look at the debacle that ensued when the thinly fictionalized character DHH inadvertently cast a white actor in the lead Asian role in his 1993 play Face Value, a send-up of anti-Asian stereotypes inspired by his public protest of the controversial “yellowface” casting in the 1991 Broadway transfer of the London production of Miss Saigon.