Yellow Face
1 hour and 40 minutes. No intermission.
Yellow Face - 2024 Broadway History , Info & More
Todd Haimes Theatre (Broadway)
229 W. 42nd St. New York, NY
“Tony Award ® winner and three-time Pulitzer finalist David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly) will make his Roundabout debut with the Broadway premiere of Yellow Face, his hilarious is-he-or-isn’t-he comedy of identity, show business, and (perhaps) autobiography. Starring Daniel Dae Kim (Lost) and directed by Tony nominee Leigh Silverman (Violet).
In this play inspired by real events, the playwright’s fictionalized doppelgänger protests yellowface casting in Miss Saigon, only to mistakenly cast a white actor as the Asian lead in his own play. This Obie Award-winning and Pulitzer finalist play is a laugh-out-loud farce about the complexities of race.”
Yellow Face - 2024 - Broadway Cast
FEATURED REVIEWS FOR Yellow Face
Daniel Dae Kim as a playwright at wit’s end
6 / 10
Perception, and who gets to control it, is at the heart of “Yellow Face,” which previously played off-Broadway’s Public Theater in 2007, also under the direction of Leigh Silverman. Hwang’s interest in setting the record straight can seem like an ego trip, and the staging, though pleasantly efficient, has a somewhat clinical feel. So many headlines appear in projection (designed by Yee Eun Nam) that occasionally the play reads like Hwang’s salvo in an ongoing beef with the New York Times.
Review: Daniel Dae Kim as a Playwright Unmasked in ‘Yellow Face’
8 / 10
I don’t remember feeling the weight of that insight, or for that matter, the levity of the jokes, when I saw the 2007 production. Part of the improvement in this revival is, no doubt, the result of cuts, fine-tuning and rewritten scenes. The elimination of the intermission helps too; the two halves of the story don’t separate like a sauce. And there’s something to be said for the way a Broadway house, when a solid play is sized up to suit it, responds by giving it space to breathe.
Yellow Face History
Other Productions of Yellow Face
| 2007 | Off-Broadway |
Original Off-Broadway Production Off-Broadway |
| 2024 | Broadway |
Roundabout Theatre Company Broadway Premiere Production Broadway |
Yellow Face - 2024 Broadway Awards and Nominations
| Year | Ceremony | Category | Nominee |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Featured Performer in a Broadway Play | Francis Jue |
| 2025 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Revival of a Play | Yellow Face |
| 2025 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play | Francis Jue |
| 2025 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play | Daniel Dae Kim |
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