[24], Hwang has continued to work steadily in the world of opera and musical theatre, and has written for children's theatre as well. [45] In 2012, he was awarded the William Inge Award for Distinguished Achievement in the American Theatre,[46] the Asia Society Cultural Achievement Award, the China Institute Blue Cloud Award,[47] and the Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award. Playscripts brings new plays and musicals to professional, school, community, and college theaters to perform, read and enjoy. Kathleen Kuiper was Senior Editor, Arts & Culture, Encyclopædia Britannica until 2016. Omissions? info@playscripts.com. [22], In Yellow Face, Hwang wrote a semi-autobiographical play, featuring him as the main character in a media farce about mistaken racial identity. Although "Butterfly" is indeed a wonderful play, Hwang is one of the more versatile playwrights today, and this book shows the breadth of it. [7], His next play Rich Relations, was his first full-length to feature non-Asian characters. We operate under the idea that, “What is good for the playwright, is good for Playscripts.”. Yellow Face 1st (first) Edition by Hwang, David Henry published by Theatre Communications Group (2009) Born in Los Angeles in 1957 to immigrants, Hwang is a successful playwright. Butterfly' playwright David Henry Hwang slashed in neck near Brooklyn home, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=David_Henry_Hwang&oldid=982556594, American dramatists and playwrights of Chinese descent, 20th-century American dramatists and playwrights, 21st-century American dramatists and playwrights, Articles containing Chinese-language text, Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SNAC-ID identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WorldCat identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Playwright, screenwriter, television writer, librettist, lyricist. Golden Child was later produced in New York City. [29], Hwang's short play A Very DNA Reunion was written for the evening of plays The DNA Trail, which was conceived by Jamil Khoury and premiered at the historic Chicago Temple Building. In 1985 Hwang cowrote the screenplay for Blind Alleys, a made-for-television movie. In 1998 it was produced on Broadway, and was nominated that year for a Tony Award for Best Play. [20], Hwang's 2007 play Yellow Face relates to his play Face Value, which closed in previews on Broadway in the early 1990s. It was adapted from the novel The Flower Drum Song by C. Y. Lee, and tells the culture clash encountered by a Chinese family living in San Francisco. The opera premiered on July 2, 2008 at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, France, with Cronenberg as director and Plácido Domingo conducting. This page was last edited on 8 October 2020, at 21:51. In 1998, the nation's oldest Asian American theatre company, East West Players, christened its new mainstage The David Henry Hwang Theatre. Hwang was featured in an autobiographical series by Boise State University with a summary of his early work, as part of the Western Writers Series,[44] written by Douglas Street. Infoplease is a reference and learning site, combining the contents of an encyclopedia, a dictionary, an atlas and several almanacs loaded with facts. Golden Child premiered Off-Broadway at the Joseph Papp Public Theater, received a 1997 OBIE Award for playwriting and subsequently moved to Broadway, where it received three 1998 Tony Nominations, including Best Play. Get exclusive access to content from our 1768 First Edition with your subscription. [38] In the summer of 2016, Hwang became the chair of the board of the American Theatre Wing.[39]. The first, Kung Fu, about the life of Bruce Lee, premiered as part of his residency at the Signature Theatre Off-Broadway. The next year, it was produced at the New York Shakespeare Festival's Public Theater, winning an Obie award for best new play of the season. He is most famous for, How ‘Mulan’s’ Tzi Ma Became Hollywood’s Go-To Asian Dad (Watch), Four Former Paradigm Agents Join A3 Artists To Launch Literary Department Led By Andy Patman & Adam Kanter, ‘Jagged Little Pill’ & ‘Moulin Rouge!

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