Hiii-ya! Broadway is entering the dragon. Bruce Lee: Journey to the West, a David Yazbek-David Henry Hwang musical, will be directed by Bartlett Sher, a Tony Award nominee for his direction of South Pacific. Elephant Eye (which is also attached to the Off-Broadway musical Saved) announced today that Bruce Lee "is targeted for the 2010-2011 Read More
Is it a new day in America with Barack Obama? David Henry Hwang’s feverish dissection of race and identity in Yellow Face at the Public Theater makes me wonder.
The term “yellow face” is a minstrelsy equivalent of blackface—part of the degrading cultural history of America that takes us from Boris Karloff’s eponymous evil Read More
Only the French would create a musical about a man who can walk through brick walls. You can’t imagine Oscar Hammerstein saying to Richard Rodgers, “Are we sure about the King of Siam ? Let’s do a show about a dope who can walk through walls instead.” But the French think otherwise-or they wouldn’t be Read More
