Playwright David Henry Hwang, director Leigh Silverman and Daniel Dae Kim (Photo by Sergio Villarini for Broadway.com)
Yellow Face—David Henry Hwang's semi-autobiographical satire inspired by the playwright's protest of yellow face in the Broadway production of Miss Saigon and his subsequent 1993 flop, Face Value—opened on Broadway at the Todd Haimes Theatre on October 1. A Pulitzer Prize finalist, the play premiered in Los Angeles in 2007, followed by an off-Broadway run at the Public Theater helmed by Leigh Silverman, who reunites with Hwang for its Broadway production.
Daniel Dae Kim leads the cast as Hwang's theatrical rendering (called DHH in the play), along with Francis Jue as Hwang's father (HYH), Ryan Eggold as Marcus (the white man DHH accidentally casts as an Asian character in Face Value) and an ensemble of shape-shifting actors including Greg Keller, Marinda Anderson, Kevin Del Aguila and Shannon Tyo.
See the Broadway company walk the red carpet on opening night.