The Roundabout production was the long-awaited Broadway premiere of Hwang's semi-autobiographical play.
PBS' series Great Performances has set air dates for filmed performances of Broadway's Yellow Faceand Girl From the North Country, and London's Kiss Me, Kate.
David Henry Hwang's Yellow Face, filmed in the final weeks of the Roundabout Theatre Companyproduction, will begin premiering on local PBS stations May 16 (check local listings), and will be available for nationwide streaming on PBS.org beginning at 9 PM ET. Directed by Leigh Silverman, Yellow Facestars Daniel Dae Kim as DHH, Kevin Del Aguila as Actor A, Ryan Eggold as Marcus, Francis Jue as HYH, Marinda Anderson as Actor B, Greg Keller as Reporter, and Shannon Tyo as Leah. Casting is by Carrie Gardner and Jilliam Cimini. Inspired by real events, the playwright's fictionalized doppelgänger DHH (Kim) leads protests against yellowface casting in Miss Saigon, but then mistakenly casts a white actor as the Asian lead in one of his own plays.