YELLOW FACE
Roundabout, Todd Haimes Theatre, September 13–November 24
David Henry Hwang became the first Asian American playwright to win the Best Play Tony with M. Butterfly in 1988. Now Leigh Silverman directs the Broadway premiere of his sharp-fanged, semi-autobiographical farce about the tricky forging of art and identity. In Yellow Face, a beleaguered Asian American playwright (Daniel Dae Kim) speaks out against the titular toxic casting trend in a production of Miss Saigon… and then proceeds to inadvertently cast a white actor as the Asian protagonist in his own play. What could possibly go right? — S.H.