Yellow Face is the rare play to begin with a plot recap: “Previously, on David Henry Hwang!”
In a flurry, talking heads summarize the essential background info—chiefly Hwang’s work campaigning against the yellowface casting of Jonathan Pryce for the Broadway transfer of Miss Saigon, and Actors’ Equity’s (ultimately unsuccessful) push against Pryce transferring with the show to New York.
Yet before this recap is even through, Hwang has already started toying with the truth. This play’s version of the playwright and activist, dubbed “DHH” and portrayed by Daniel Dae Kim in Roundabout Theatre Company’s solid revival, backs off the campaign as public opinion begins to turn…