Monday, January 19, 2026
One of the most unique elements in the long-running musical Hamilton is the range and variety of performers who portray America’s Founding Fathers. Case in point: Korean-born actor Jin Ha,…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:48AMThursday, November 6, 2025
Emmy and SAG Award winner Samira Wiley will make her Broadway debut this spring as Claire in the Broadway revival of Proof, David Auburn’s Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning play direc…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:02PMTuesday, September 16, 2025
Two-time Tony winner John Lithgow will reprise his Olivier-winning performance as the children's author Roald Dahl in the play Giant on Broadway this season. The production will open on Ma…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:18AMThursday, August 14, 2025
Monday, July 7, 2025
Inside the Playbill:
Romance/Romance August 1988
Almost 37 years ago, I took a summer trip to the Big Apple, fresh out of college and before putting my new Bachelor's degree to work! Of c…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 08:42AMSunday, June 8, 2025
Earlier tonight at the 78th Annual Tony Awards, Francis Jue took home a Tony Award for 'Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play' for his outstanding work in Yellow Face. …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:48PMWednesday, April 2, 2025
Thursday, March 20, 2025
David Henry Hwang's Tony-winning Best Play launched the Broadway careers of the playwright and actor BD Wong.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:48AMWednesday, October 2, 2024
Francis Jue’s stage career has been happily entwined with the works of David Henry Hwang for 35 years, since Jue understudied the title role in M. Butterfly. Although they look nothing ali…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:18AMWednesday, August 28, 2024
SOFT POWER
ASL Interpreted Performance on September 6
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A visionary musical fantasia by Tony Award winners David Henry Hwang (Yellow Face, M. Butterfly) and J…
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:37PMFriday, August 16, 2024
"Election Night" from SOFT POWER
Featuring Andrew Cristi and the cast of SOFT POWER
SOFT POWER
August 6 – September 15, 2024
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A visionary musical fantasia …
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:51AMTuesday, August 13, 2024
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…
SOURCE: YouTube at 03:25PMSOFT POWER
August 6 – September 15, 2024
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A visionary musical fantasia by Tony Award winners David Henry Hwang (Yellow Face, M. Butterfly) and Jeanine Teso…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:11PMTuesday, August 6, 2024
SOFT POWER
August 6 – September 15, 2024
For tickets visit SigTheatre.org
A visionary musical fantasia by Tony Award winners David Henry Hwang (Yellow Face, M. Butterfly) and Jeanine Teso…
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:53AMMonday, August 5, 2024
A musical about particle physics is under development, with David Henry Hwang, the playwright behind “M. Butterfly.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:14AMWednesday, July 24, 2024
SOFT POWER
August 6 – September 15, 2024
For tickets visit SigTheatre.org
A visionary musical fantasia by Tony Award winners David Henry Hwang (Yellow Face, M. Butterfly) and Jeanine Teso…
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:37AMBroadwayWorld has an exclusive first look at the cast of Signature Theatre's DC premiere of Soft Power in rehearsal. Soft Power is a musical fantasia with music by Jeanine Tesori (Kimberly A…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:02AMMonday, June 24, 2024
This weekend, Jeopardy! contestants answered questions from the 'Broadway's Opening Night Casts' category. Questions included trivia about Wicked, Ragtime, M. Butterfly, and more! Watch the …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:18AMSunday, June 23, 2024
Flower Drum Song, in its new, heavily-revised form crafted by David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly, Golden Child), will arrive on Broadway in ...
SOURCE: Google at 07:02PMFriday, June 14, 2024
SOFT POWER
August 6 – September 15, 2024
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A visionary musical fantasia by Tony Award winners David Henry Hwang (Yellow Face, M. Butterfly) and Jeanine Tes…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:00PMThursday, June 6, 2024
From BroadwayWorld's Archive: David Henry Hwang's Tony Award-winning play, M BUTTERFLY, directed by Julie Taymor, opened just last night at the Cort Theatre (138 West 48th street).
Learn m…
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:18PMTuesday, May 28, 2024
From BroadwayWorld's Archive: The first Broadway revival of David Henry Hwang's Tony Award -winning play, M. BUTTERFLY, officially opened last night at Broadway's Cort Theatre (138 W 48th St…
SOURCE: YouTube at 08:02AMThursday, May 23, 2024
From BroadwayWorld's Archive: Court Theatre closes its 2013-2014 season with the Chicago premiere of M. Butterfly written by David Henry Hwang and directed by Artistic Director Charles Newel…
SOURCE: YouTube at 06:36PMTuesday, March 26, 2024
The world premiere of Shayan Lotfi's What Became of Us, coming to Atlantic Theater Company's Stage 2 this spring, has announced two pairs of performers to lead the production's two separat…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:36PMFriday, December 22, 2023
Roma Torre reviews M. Butterfly
SOURCE: YouTube at 09:37PMThursday, February 9, 2023
One of the privileges of my theatergoing in L.A. back in the day was seeing talented actors like David Dukes do some of the best work of their careers in venues both big and small. I also go…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 11:22AMWednesday, August 24, 2022
The operatic adaptation of the David Henry Hwang play features a libretto by Hwang and music by Huang Ruo.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:48PMMonday, July 4, 2022
Howard Da Silva (Ben Franklin) and William Daniels (John Adams) in “1776” (1969). Photo by Martha Swope.Can’t let July 4th go by without my annual tribute to the musical 1776, a brill…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 11:01AMMonday, March 28, 2022
Thank you, show art lovers, theater fans and all of you fantastic readers! After more than two years, more than 500 logos, and thousands of your votes, we have reached the end of our search …
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 07:12AMMonday, November 22, 2021
In-person theatre is back in NYC, both on Broadway and beyond. But there are still wonderful shows to stream at home. Below are performances you can watch online this Thanksgiving weekend, T…
SOURCE: TDF at 12:00AMThursday, November 18, 2021
In-person theatre is back in NYC, both on Broadway and beyond. But there are still wonderful shows to stream at home. Below are performances you can watch online this weekend, Friday, Novemb…
SOURCE: TDF at 12:00AMFriday, November 12, 2021
In-person theatre is back in NYC, both on Broadway and beyond. But there are still wonderful shows to stream at home. Below are performances you can watch online this weekend, Friday, Novemb…
SOURCE: TDF at 12:00AMWednesday, September 15, 2021
In recognition of a groundbreaking theatre company that has been training artists and producing plays by people of color and women, as well as developing multicultural audiences, for more th…
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:37PMThursday, July 29, 2021
Hamilton star Miguel Cervantes, who closed out the Chicago production and played the title role on Broadway prior to the shutdown will return to the Richard Rodgers Theatre this September.…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:48PMTuesday, June 15, 2021
This Week in Broadway History:
June 15 - 21
🎭OPENING NIGHTS🎭
June 15, 1995: One of the 90s most interesting and underrated musicals, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, opened at th…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 02:18PMMonday, May 17, 2021
This month Brian talks to the writer of 'M. Butterfly,' 'Yellow Face,' 'Chinglish,' and 'Soft Power' about Joe Papp, hate crimes, and the ironic uplift of surviving a flop.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 06:42PMTuesday, March 16, 2021
This Week in Broadway History:
March 16 - 22
🎭OPENING NIGHTS🎭
March 17, 2005: The Tony-winning Best Musical of 2005, Spamalot, opened at the Shubert Theatre, where it would cl…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 08:42AMThursday, January 7, 2021
EXCLUSIVE: David Henry Hwang, the Tony Award-winning M. Butterfly playwright currently writing the script for a live-action musical film adaptation of Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame,…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:34PMSunday, November 1, 2020
The goal: a comedy about mistaken racial identity inspired by protests over “Miss Saigon.” The result: a backstage farce that never got to opening night.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:03AMTuesday, September 15, 2020
When BD Wong asked his parents to lend him money to fly to New York for an audition for M. Butterfly he told them he was certain he would not get the job but he could not pass up the opportu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:12PM 
