In a public reading by David Henry Hwang, the playwright opens with, “If you don’t fail from time to time, you’re not working hard enough…every success has some drops of poison in it and every failure comes with gifts.” Students and faculty members gathered and filled the Crystal Cove Auditorium to enjoy a night of paying homage to the timeless Asian American playwright on Nov. 14. With this, our Asian American Theatre Company on campus, Theatre Woks, performed a stage reading of selections from some of Hwang’s most famous writings, including: “M. Butterfly,” “F.O.B” and “Chinglish.”