The producers of CHINGLISH, the new comedy by Tony Award-winning and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly) are pleased to announce that Hwang, OBIE-Award winning director Leigh Silverman and cast members Jennifer Lim and Gary Wilmes will be making an appearance at Washington Post Live's Global China Summit in Washington D.C. on Tuesday, September 27th. Lim and Wilmes will perform a scene from CHINGLISH for the Summit attendees.
Washington Post Live, the live journalism division of The Washington Post, will host the Global China Summit at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C. Featuring Dr. Henry Kissinger, Nobel Prize winner and author of the new book On China, this Washington Post Live summit will address ongoing economic and social changes in a country of 1.3 billion people and why it matters to the rest of the world. The day-long conference will be streamed live at washingtonpostlive.com.CHINGLISH begins previews at the Longacre Theatre (220 West 48th Street) on Tuesday, October 11th and will officially open on Thursday, October 27th. The show comes to Broadway following its acclaimed world premiere production at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago this summer. Tickets to CHINGLISH are available for purchase on Telecharge.com or 212-239-6200. Visit www.chinglishbroadway.com for more information.The design team includes: Set Designer David Korins (Lombardi, Passing Strange), Costume Designer Anita Yavich (Anna in the Tropics) and Lighting Designer Brian MacDevitt (The Book of Mormon, Fences, Goodman: Long Day's Journey into Night), Sound Designer Darron L. West (Time Stands Still), and Jeff Sugg (33 Variations) and Shawn Duan (Impressionism) as Co-Projection Designers.
CHINGLISH is produced by Jeffrey Richards, Jerry Frankel, Dasha Epstein, Cathy Chernoff /Jay & Cindy Gutterman, Heni Koenigsberg/Lily Fan, Joe & Matt Deitch, Ronald & Marc Frankel, Barry & Carole Kaye, Mary Lu Roffe, The Broadway Consortium, Ken Davenport, Filerman Bensinger, Herbert Goldsmith, JAM Theatricals, Olympus Theatricals, Playful Productions, David and Barbara Stoller, Roy Gottlieb and Hunter Arnold in association with the Goodman Theatre.
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