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David Henry Hwang’s “Yellow Face” is a difficult play to review. The playwright has made himself the lead character, and he fills this semi-autobiographical story with lots of other real ...
The plot is, on its surface – but only on its surface – one big inside joke for Broadway aficionados. Inspired by real events – with liberty taken – Yellow Face recounts an event that ...
David Henry Hwang was already a Pulitzer Prize finalist for his comedy Yellow Face back in 2007, but the acclaimed play only just landed on Broadway this season courtesy of Roundabout Theater Company.
Daniel Dae Kim as a playwright at wit’s end. David Henry Hwang’s “Yellow Face” tackles tricky questions of representation, authenticity and who gets to tell whose story.
PBS recently aired the official pro-shot of the 2024 Broadway production of David Henry Hwang's Yellow Face as part of the Broadway Great Performances line-up. Now, viewers can go behind the ...
“Yellow Face,” produced on Broadway for the first time after an initial Off Broadway run in 2007, might be the prolific Hwang’s magnum opus, but it’s also wily, wry, and slippery.
In 1963, an insurance company hired Ball to create some kind of image to boost morale — something to put on a button. Ball took all of 10 minutes to draw the yellow smiley face, and the State ...
Yellow Face Through Nov. 24 at Todd Haimes Theater, Manhattan; roundabouttheatre.org. Running time: 1 hour and 45 minutes. Jesse Green is the chief theater critic for The Times.
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Seventeen years after he first appeared in “Yellow Face,” the veteran actor Francis Jue has returned with a nuanced performance as a blustery ...
Daniel Dae Kim in David Henry Hwang’s 'Yellow Face' on Broadway. Joan Marcus. Hwang, 67, was among many who spoke out about the casting, penning a public letter of protest and saying that Pryce ...