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Vienna

1988

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Gibbs Smith, Layton, Utah

1989

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Opera

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Notes:
music by Philip Glass

Synopsis:

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Musical

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Notes:
Music by Elton John; Lyrics by Tim Rice; Book by Linda Woolverton, Robert Falls and David Henry Hwang; Based on the opera by Giuseppe Verdi

Synopsis:
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Los Angeles

1986

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in "Between Worlds", Theatre Communications Group, New York

1990

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Actors Theatre of Louisville, Humana Festival, KY, USA >>>

1991-92

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Dramatists Play Service, Inc. in Trying to Find Chinatown and Bondage; by Applause in Best Short Plays of 1993; and by Smith & Kraus in 20/20: Twenty One-Act Plays from the Twenty Year History of the Humana Festival of New American Plays.

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One Act

2

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Notes:
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Synopsis:
In a Los Angeles S&M parlor, a dominatrix and her client are clad head-to-toe in leather costumes that conceal their faces and ethnicity's. These elaborate disguises allow them to play out fantasies based on racial stereotypes and sexual mythologies: she pretends to be an African-American woman to his white, liberal man; he transforms into an Asian-American and she into a blond WASP, etc. Exchanging biting social observations with stinging humor, they progress through their power games to expose the arbitrariness of racially minded thinking. All the while, however, they are haunted by an awareness that in spite of their efforts, they may be moving towards the most terrifying reality of all - a true intimacy which transcends the bounds of race.

New Federal Theatre, NY, USA >>>

1981

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in "Broken Promises: Four Plays", Avon, New York

1983

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Drama

One Act

2

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Synopsis:
While his fellow workers are striking for higher pay, Lone, once an actor in China, exercises and practices alone on a mountaintop the ritual gestures used in Chinese opera. Ma, a slightly younger man, who wishes to become an actor, approaches him. Lone spurns him and insults the naive young man, but Ma returns day after day, eventually convincing Lone to train him as an actor. As Lone trains Ma in the ways of the Chinese opera, he also heaps a good deal of abuse on him, trying to rid him of some of his gullibility and to dissuade him from pursuing acting if he does not truly have the drive to suffer through all the work necessary to become a master of the art. Ma, however, is quite determined in his desire to become an actor and finally wins over Lone, just as the Chinese workers win their strike.

Stanford, California

1978

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in "Broken Promises: Four Plays", Avon, New York

1983

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Play/Drama

2

1

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Notes:
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Synopsis:
F.O.B. is told in a style that moves quickly between myth and reality, with the characters occasionally speaking directly to the audience. Grace and Dale are cousins, living in the Los Angeles area and attending college. Dale is fully American, second generation. Grace is first generation and holds the customs of China in higher regard. The arrival of Steve, an exchange student and a newcomer from China, fresh off the boat, forces them to confront a number of conflicting feelings about America, China and themselves. Dale is very confrontational with Steve, mocking his English and manner. And in turn Steve is defiant and even provocative. Grace tries to keep the conflict from escalating but finds herself increasingly drawn to Steve. Grace decides to go with Steve to a school dance and an uneasy truce, of sorts, is reached between Dale and Steve.

New York Shakespeare Festival, NYC

1981

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in "Broken Promises: Four Plays", Avon, New York

1983

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Play/Drama

4

5

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Notes:
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Synopsis:
Ama and Popo, two elderly and devoutly Christian Chinese sisters, escaped with their family from China just before the Communist revolution. Their younger brother, Di-Gou, however, believed in the revolution, and returned to China. The two curmudgeonly sisters now live in Bel Air, California, with their daughters, Joanne and Hannah, and their daughters' prosperous husbands, Wilbur and Robert. The married couples have completely embraced some of the worst aspects of being American, waste and total self-involvement. Their children, however, Jenny and Chester, are not this way and are preparing their own escapes by one going to college and the other taking a job with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The whole family eagerly awaits a visit from Di-Gou, who the sisters have not seen in over thirty years. When he arrives it is clear he is not the man his sisters remember: a religious young man who went out on a tour of China with a Christian evangelist, and who had converted the family. Now Di-Gou does not believe in God, and when his sisters go so far as to tie him up and beat him to try and remove the "demon spirit" from his body, he reveals that the evangelist they have revered for so long was a fake with an illegitimate child. They refuse to believe this, but Di-Gou pursues the matter and even asks them to return to China and Chinese ways. But this request, along with the shock of the religious revelation, kills the elderly women. As their daughters react in horror, Di-Gou slips away and Jenny and Chester also begin to make their exits.

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Musical

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Notes:
Music by: Richard Rogers; Lyrics by: Oscar Hammerstein

Synopsis:
Modernised in parts to take into account some of the outdated attitudes to race BUT introducing a new character - limp-wristed, mincing Harvard.

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

1998

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Play/Drama

2

4

3 men or women (flexible casting): 9 total

Notes:
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Synopsis:
In the winter of 1918, progressive Chinese landowner Eng Tieng-Bin's interest in Westernization and Christianity sets off a power struggle among his three wives, which will determine the future of his daughter, Ahn, Tieng-Bin's favorite, his "golden child."

Public Theatre, NY >>>

1983

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

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Drama

One Act

1

1

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Notes:
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Synopsis:
A well known novelist, Kawabata, visits a brothel in order to learn why older men frequent it. However this establishment is quite different from what he expected. Here the men simply sleep in the same bed with the beautiful young women provided, and the women never awaken or see them. The madam who runs the home carefully screens all of her potential guests and only accepts men who she deems worthy. Kawabata intends to write about the house, but slowly falls under its spell and finds himself unable to write the piece. He is troubled by thoughts of his own mortality and the suicide of his friend, the author Mishima. But the madam soothes him and with the aid of a mild sleeping potion, Kawabata finally sleeps. In the end he is able to write the story and has achieved an inner peace. With his new-found tranquillity, he asks the madam to make him some tea, but instead of the sleeping powder, he wants her to add a poison to it. Both the novelist and the madam drink the tea and slowly drift off to sleep.

Lennox Art Center, Stockbridge, MA

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Play/Drama

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Notes:
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Synopsis:

National Theatre, Washington

1988

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American Theatre Magazine, NY - July

1988

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Play/Drama

7

3

3 of the 7 men are non-speaking roles

Notes:
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Synopsis:
Bored with his routine posting in Beijing, and awkward with women, Rene Gallimard, a French diplomat, is easy prey for the subtle, delicate charms of Song Liling, a Chinese opera star who personifies Gallimard's fantasy vision of submissive, exotic oriental sexuality. He begins an affair with "her" which lasts for twenty years, during which time he passes along diplomatic secrets, an act which, eventually, brings on his downfall and imprisonment. Interspersed with scenes between the two lovers are others with Gallimard's wife and colleagues, which underscore the irony of Gallimard's delusion and its curious parallel to the events of Puccini's famous opera Madame Butterfly. Combining realism and ritual with vivid theatricality, the play reaches its astonishing climax when Song Liling, before our very eyes, strips off his female attire and assumes his true masculinitya revelation which the deluded Gallimard can neither credit nor accept and which drives him finallyand fatallydeep within the fantasy with which, over the years, he has held the truth at bay.

Actors Theatre of Louisville, Humana Festival, KY, USA >>>

1998-99

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T(ext) Shirt Play

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Notes:
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Synopsis:
Anyone can perform this play by an award-winning playwright simply by wearing the T-shirt upon which it is written

Trinity Repertory Company (Providence, RI, United States)

1998

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Playscrips, Inc - 1074

2006

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Play/Drama

9

8

8 females, 9 males, 5 either; Running time: 90-110 mins

Notes:
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Synopsis:
Henrik Ibsen's classic is revisited with the use of contemporary metaphors and language. We follow Peer Gynt through his entire life, from delinquent youth to wealthy and bitter old man, as he encounters everything from trolls to his greatest love. One co

Second Stage (New York, NY, United States)

1986

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Playscripts, Inc

2002

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Comedy

2

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Notes:
Running time: 90-110

Synopsis:
Keith is a prep school debate teacher on the run with Jill, his student and underage girlfriend. They arrive at the Los Angeles mansion of his father Hinson, an amusingly hopeless technophile who left the ministry to become a wealthy real estate baron. Long ago he was raised from the dead through the love of his sister Barbara -- but now Auntie Barbara is perched on the balcony, threatening suicide unless Keith marries her cable-addicted daughter (Keith's first cousin). Full of wit, magic, and ruined household appliances, Rich Relations explores the ties between wealth and love, modernity and eternity, sacrifice and resurrection.

New York

1983

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in "Broken Promises: Four Plays", Avon, New York

1983

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Two Plays

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Ominus title: includes The House of Sleeping Beauties and The Sound of a Voice

Synopsis:

Public Theatre, NY >>>

1983

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in "Between Worlds", Theatre Communications Group, New York

1990

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Drama

One Act

1

1

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Notes:
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Synopsis:
The scene is an isolated house in the woods where a beautiful young woman lives alone. When a young samurai appears she offers him food and shelter, and when he decides to stay on they eventually become lovers. But while fascinated by his benefactress, the samurai cannot shake a superstitious mistrust of her; for all her delicacy and beauty she is also able to perform wonders of cookery, horticulture and even the martial arts (much to his wounded pride). In the end it develops that the woman is suspected of being a witch and the samurai has come to seek glory by killing her. This he ultimately cannot, or will not, do, but neither can be accept her superiority, and so he leavesa fateful decision which, as it turns out, is made at terrible cost to both of them.

Humana Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville, KY, USA >>>

1999

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Humana Festival 1999: The Complete Plays, ed Michael Bigelow Dixon & Amy Wegener, Smith & Kraus

1999

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with plays by David Henry Hwang, Tony Kushner, Jane Martin, Naomi Wallace, Wendy Wasserstein, and Mac Wellman.

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Richard Rodgers Theatre

2006

Disney Theatrical Productions

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150 min

Musical

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9 actors

Notes:
music and lyrics by Phil Collins; book by David Henry Hwang

Synopsis:
Tarzan is based on the stories by Edgar Rice Burroughs and the 1999 film. The score is by rock singer/composer Phil Collins, who won an Oscar for one of the songs in the animated movie--all five of the songs in the film will be included, along with eight new ones.
nytheatre.com

Seattle Children's Theatre (Seattle, WA, United States)

2004

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Playscrips, Inc - 805

2006

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Drama for young people

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3

1

1 female, 3 males, 3 either; Running time: 75-90 mins

Notes:
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Synopsis:
Peter's father, Vladimir, has been sent to Tibet to make a documentary film just as the nation is being invaded by the Chinese. Separated from his party, Vladimir must trek alone to the capital of Lhasa while his angry and injured son struggles to bring h

Humana Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville, KY, USA >>>

1996

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Dramatists Play Service, Inc. in Trying To Find Chinatown and Bondage and by Smith & Kraus in Humana Festival '96, The Complete Plays

1996

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Ten Min

1

1

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Synopsis:
Lost on his way to Chinatown, Benjamin asks Ronnie for directions. Ronnie, playing his violin on the street for money, is offended that just because he looks like an Asian he automatically knows where Chinatown is. Caucasian looking, Benjamin was adopted by an Asian-American family at birth. He revels in his heritage and is looking for the house where his father was born. Ronnie, on the other hand, throws himself into all things American and finds it hard to sympathize with Benjamin who, when he finds his father's house, is filled with a special elation. BONDAGE. In a Los Angeles S&M parlor, a dominatrix and her client are clad head-to-toe in leather costumes that conceal their faces and ethnicity's. These elaborate disguises allow them to play out fantasies based on racial stereotypes and sexual mythologies: she pretends to be an African-American woman to his white, liberal man; he transforms into an Asian-American and she into a blond WASP, etc. Exchanging biting social observations with stinging humor, they progress through their power games to expose the arbitrariness of racially minded thinking. All the while, however, they are haunted by an awareness that in spite of their efforts, they may be moving towards the most terrifying reality of alla true intimacy which transcends the bounds of race.

New York

1992

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Opera

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Notes:
music by Philip Glass

Synopsis:

Public Theater, NY, USA >>>

2007

The Public Theater

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Comedy

3

3

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Notes:
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Synopsis:
In Yellow Face, playwright David Henry Hwang puts himself center stage with alter-ego DHH, telling his side of the explosive controversy stirred up when he led the protest against the hiring of Jonathan Pryce in the original Broadway production of Miss Saigon. Truth and fiction are hard to separate as Hwang gives us a funny and moving backstage look at his search to confront the roles that race and ethnicity play in America.
- press release