Editing David Henry Hwang (section)

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[[File:David Henry Hwang in NY Photo Credit Lia Chang.jpg|thumb|left| David Henry Hwang at the Public Theater in [[New York City]] in 2008]]
Hwang's 2007 play ''[[Yellow Face (play)|Yellow Face]]'' relates to his play ''[[Face Value (play)|Face Value]]'', which closed in previews on Broadway in the early 1990s. He wrote it in response to a controversy about the casting of [[Jonathan Pryce]] in an Eurasian role in ''[[Miss Saigon]]''. ''[[Face Value (play)|Face Value]]'', which included music and lyrics for a musical-within-a-play by Hwang, lost millions of dollars. It was a stumbling block in the careers of Hwang and producer [[Stuart Ostrow]].<ref name=nyt>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/11/theater/reviews/11yellow.html|title=David Henry Hwang: racial casting has evolved – and so have my opinions|work=The New York Times|date=December 11, 2007|access-date=February 27, 2019}}</ref>

In ''Yellow Face'', Hwang wrote a semi-autobiographical play, featuring him as the main character in a media farce about mistaken racial identity. This had been also an important element in ''[[Face Value (play)|Face Value]]''.<ref name=nyt/>

''Yellow Face'' premiered in Los Angeles in 2007 at the [[Mark Taper Forum]] as a co-production with [[East West Players]]. It moved Off-Broadway to the [[Joseph Papp Public Theater]], an important venue for Hwang's earlier work. It enjoyed an extended run at the Papp, and won Hwang his third Obie Award for Playwriting. The play was a finalist for the [[Pulitzer Prize for Drama]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://www.sc.edu/uscpress/books/2013/7287.html|first=William C. |last=Boles|title=Understanding David Henry Hwang|publisher=[[University of South Carolina Press]]|year=2013|pages=160|isbn=978-1611172874|doi=10.2307/j.ctv6wggqc|jstor=j.ctv6wggqc}}</ref>

Hwang also wrote a new short play, ''[[The Great Helmsman (play)|The Great Helmsman]]'' for the Papp's night of plays: ''Ten''.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5dlyCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA171|title=The Theatre of David Henry Hwang|author=Esther Kim Lee|editor1=Patrick Lonergan|editor2=Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.|year=2015|publisher=[[Bloomsbury Publishing]]|page=171|isbn=978-1-4725-1208-6}}</ref>