When David Henry Hwang's Tony Award-winning play M. Butterfly debuted in 1988, China, just emerging from decades of chaos and stagnation, was far weaker than the United States or Western Europe in ...

David Henry Hwang’s award-winning 1988 play is based ... The subject has clear connections to Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, although the dynamic is reversed – here the betrayer is the Chinese ...

David Henry Hwang’s award-winning 1988 play is based ... The subject has clear connections to Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, though the dynamic is reversed – here the betrayer is the Chinese ...

“Laughter,” David Henry Hwang says ... “I tend to do my best work when I'm doing stuff that feels kind of naughty,” Hwang says. “In this case, once I decided that it was going ...

While casting practices have evolved to enhance diversity (albeit, too slowly and not enough), the selection of plays remains ...

London Philharmonic Orchestra/Karina Canellakis, Royal Festival Hall ★★★☆☆ It’s now almost de ...

Best Lighting Design of a Musical (Tony Awards) for Paradise Square, Design Award (Obie Awards) for He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box, Best Lighting Design of a Musical (Tony Awards) for My Fair ...

A smash-hit Broadway play turned movie, David Henry Hwang’s M. Butterfly metamorphoses into music theatre as the UK premiere of Huang Ruo’s operatic reworking takes wing. Love, betrayal, ...