The actor talks about the Broadway revival of David Henry Hwang's play about family and Asian representation. "David wrote it 20 years ago," he says, "but we’re still talking about the same questions. Who should be able to decide who we are? Why can’t we decide for ourselves?"
Yellow Face, which wraps a successful revival run at Roundabout’s Haines Theater today, is a semi-autobiographical play written by David Henry Hwang. How semi-autobiographical? The main character, DHH, is a playwright trying to stage a production of David Henry Hwang’s own 1993 play Face Value, a notorious flop from the author of M. Butterfly, which had made Hwang the first Asian American playwright to win a Tony Award for Best Play in 1988.