Sometimes a work can take hold of you and never let you go. All you want to do is return to it. For Leigh Silverman, that work was David Henry Hwang’s play Yellow Face which she directed at the Public ...

2025 Outer Critics Circle Awards Outstanding Featured Performer in a Broadway Play Francis Jue 2025 Outer Critics Circle Awards Outstanding Revival of a Play Yellow Face 2025 Tony Awards Best ...

David Henry Hwang’s play Yellow Face exemplifies the diversity-inclusion-equity (DIE) games that no doubt will continue at the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) even after federal funding is withdrawn ...

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 names, from ...

The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist argues that David Henry Hwang's play makes one think about "who belongs in America and who gets to define who is American, or American enough, for whom." By Jose ...

“Laughter,” David Henry Hwang says, “is potentially a binding force in the theater. It allows us to relax around each other and feel more comfortable in the context of issues that sometimes make us ...

Playing the character of “DHH,” the actor Daniel Dae Kim begins “Yellow Face,” the new production of David Henry Hwang’s play, standing within a box, from which he promptly strides out. It’s a crisp ...

Memory plays seldom take the form of farce, but David Henry Hwang certainly had plenty of material for one when he wrote “Yellow Face” roughly two decades ago. Mr. Hwang was already a celebrated ...

I don’t remember feeling the weight of that insight, or for that matter, the levity of the jokes, when I saw the 2007 production. Part of the improvement in this revival is, no doubt, the result of ...