David Henry Hwang’s semi-autobiographical play, “Yellow Face,” focuses on the discomfort the author felt at being caught between fighting what he saw as oblivious racism on Broadway and being… ...

In “Yellow Face,” Hwang (Kim) is writing “Face Value” in response to the yellow-face casting of Jonathan Pryce in the first Broadway production of “Miss Saigon,” in 1991.

“Yellow Face,” produced on Broadway for the first time after an initial Off Broadway run in 2007, might be the prolific Hwang’s magnum opus, but it’s also wily, wry, and slippery.

David Henry Hwang’s Yellow Face debuted Off Broadway 17 years ago, spinning a farcical tale about a real-life Broadway controversy that had taken place some 17 years before that. How it manages ...

Unfortunately, “Yellow Face,” now playing at the Lyric Stage, feels like an early draft of an idea the playwright has not yet fleshed out, writes critic Terry Byrne.

David Henry Hwang’s Yellow Face debuted Off Broadway 17 years ago, spinning a farcical tale about a real-life Broadway controversy that had taken place some 17 years before that. How it manages ...

Yellow Face Through Nov. 24 at Todd Haimes Theater, Manhattan; roundabouttheatre.org. Running time: 1 hour and 45 minutes. Jesse Green is the chief theater critic for The Times.

Hwang’s semi-autobiographical play, “Yellow Face,” new on Broadway by Roundabout Theatre Company, actually premiered some 17 years ago in Los Angeles, also under the solid direction of Leigh ...

Opening on Broadway Oct. 1, “Yellow Face” is a farcical chronicle of Hwang’s experience leading the 1990 protest against the casting of white actor Jonathan Pryce in a major Eurasian role of ...