About the Show

Fiction meets reality in a hilarious farce about race, inspired by true events.

Tony Award winner and three-time Pulitzer finalist David Henry Hwang, known for "M. Butterfly," will debut his comedic exploration, "Yellow Face," at Roundabout Theatre on Broadway. Directed by Tony nominee Leigh Silverman, it navigates themes of identity, showbiz, and potentially autobiographical elements.

Drawing from real events, the play humorously delves into the complexities of race, with a fictionalized doppelgänger protesting yellowface casting in "Miss Saigon" and inadvertently casting a white actor as the Asian lead in his own production.

This Obie Award-winning and Pulitzer finalist offers a hilarious yet thought-provoking take on race dynamics.

Critic Reviews (14)

“A smart thing about ‘Yellow Face,’ aside from the authorial self-defamation, is that as it gets more hopelessly tangled and thus funny it also gets more serious and thus damning.”
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“Yellow Face pushes its conversation through its racially subversive, often cheeky casting choices in the ensemble.”
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"Minus its intermission and a few inessential scenes, the play seems tauter and smoother, but not unnaturally so; its wrinkles and laugh lines remain."
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