David Henry Hwang visits Seattle

The Pork Filled Players and Repertory Actors Theatre welcome David Henry Hwang, the award winning playwright, who visits Seattle the weekend of August 13. Winner of multiple Obies as well as the Tony for M. BUTTERFLY, Hwang is in Seattle for the Pacific Northwest premiere of his play, YELLOW FACE (which the Players and ReAct are producing).

Hwang will first attend the 8pm, August 13 performance of YELLOW FACE, at the Richard Hugo House (1634 11th Ave., Seattle). YELLOW FACE runs August 5 to September 3, Fridays at 8 pm and Saturdays at 2 pm and 8 pm. Hwang will participate in a talkback session after the play. YELLOW FACE is a comic "mockumentary" where Hwang casts himself as the protagonist, who battles Miss Saigon's casting of Jonathan Pryce as the Asian engineer--only to end up accidentally casting a white man as his Asian hero. Tickets can be bought online at Brown Paper Tickets; for info, go to www.reacttheatre.org, www.porkfilled.com or call (206)364-3283.

On Sunday, August 14, Hwang will be appearing at Elliot Bay Books (1521 10th Avenue, Seattle) starting at 2 pm, discussing his past works and plays with local arts advocate Mayumi Tsutakawa, including his newest, CHINGLISH, now finishing up its run at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago and is now preparing for a run on Broadway.