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David Henry Hwang’s ‘Yellow Face’ to receive new publication

The edition will include revisions made for the 2024 Broadway revival.

Daniel Dae Kim in “Yellow Face” on Broadway, 2024 (Credit: Joan Marcus)

Theatre Communications Group (TCG), a national nonprofit service organization for theater, will publish a new version of David Henry Hwang’s Tony Award-nominated play “Yellow Face.” Slated to be released on Nov. 11, the publication will include a preface by Hwang as well as updates made to the script for the 2024 Roundabout Theatre Company-produced Broadway revival.

“David Henry Hwang has always challenged audiences to think more deeply about the power of theater to illuminate the most complex corners of our identities,” said TCG co-executive director of national and global programming Emilya Cachapero in a statement. “This new edition of ‘Yellow Face’ gives readers the opportunity to revisit one of the most daring and insightful comedies in the contemporary canon.”

Cover art for “Yellow Face” (Credit: Courtesy of Theatre Communications Group)

Inspired by true events, “Yellow Face” follows DHH, an American playwright who objects to the act of yellow-face casting in a musical, only to mistakenly cast a white actor in an Asian role in his own play. “Yellow Face” originally bowed Off-Broadway in 2007, and a new, limited-run mounting opened on Broadway on Oct. 1, 2024 at the Todd Haimes Theatre and closed on Nov. 24. Both productions were directed by Leigh Silverman. The Broadway production received three nominations at the 2025 Tony Awards, including a nod for Best Revival of Play and a nod for lead actor Daniel Dae Kim; Francis Jue took home a trophy for his featured turn in the play. A live capture of the Broadway production aired on PBS’ Great Performances in May 2025.