Face Value (play)
Face Value | |
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Written by | David Henry Hwang |
Characters | Andrew Simpson Linda Ann Wong Marci Williams Bernard Sugarman Pastor Glenn Ebens Randall Lee |
Date premiered | March 9, 1993 |
Place premiered | Cort Theatre New York City |
Original language | English |
Subject | East/West cultural stereotypes |
Genre | Farce |
Setting | The Imperialist Theatre; New York City, New York |
Face Value was a 1993 play by American playwright David Henry Hwang. It was to be the second Broadway production of the playwright's work, but it closed in previews on March 14, 1993.[1] The production was scheduled to open at the Cort Theatre. It was directed by Jerry Zaks, with B. D. Wong, Jane Krakowski, Mark Linn-Baker, Mia Korf, and Gina Torres in the cast. The play cost $2 million and was one of the biggest lossmakers on Broadway for a play at the time.[2]
Its critical failure provided the inspiration for David Henry Hwang's Obie Award-winning play Yellow Face, which premiered in 2007 at the Mark Taper Forum and moved Off-Broadway to the Joseph Papp Public Theater.[3] The play has never been published, although sections of the text are briefly presented in Yellow Face.
References[edit]
- ^ "Face Value | IBDB: The official source for Broadway Information". www.ibdb.com. Archived from the original on 2012-10-22.
- ^ "Broadway's Bombs". Variety. May 8, 1995. p. 8.
- ^ http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2007/novdec/features/hwang.html
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