Gary Wilmes and Jennifer Lim Lead CHINGLISH on Broadway; Cast Announced!

CHINGLISH, the new comedy by Tony Award-winning and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly), directed by OBIE Award winner Leigh Silverman (Well, In The Wake), will begin previews on Tuesday, October 11, 2011. The play will run at the Longacre Theatre (220 West 48th Street) making its Broadway premiere following its world premiere production at Goodman Theatre in Chicago this summer.

The cast has been announced and, according to the New York Times, will be lead by Gatz star Gary Wilmes and Jennifer Lim, who will be reprising her role as the ball busting Chinese official from the Goodman production. Also transferring with the production are Angela Lin, Christine Lin, Stephen Pucci, Johnny Wu and Larry Zhang.

Produced by Jeffrey Richards and Jerry Frankel, tickets for CHINGLISH will be on sale exclusively to American Express Cardmembers from Wednesday, August 10th, 2011 at 10:00 am through Sunday, August 28th, 2011 at 11:59 pm, at Telecharge.com ( 212-239-6200 ). Also, Preferred Seating is available to American Express Gold Card, Platinum Card® and Centurion® members. Tickets go on sale to the general public on Saturday, September 3rd, 2011 at 12:00am.

CHINGLISH is about an American businessman who arrives in a bustling Chinese province looking to score a lucrative contact for his family's sign-making firm. He soon finds that the complexities of such a venture far outstrip the expected differences in language, customs and manners - and calls into questions even the most basic assumptions of human conduct.

"The U.S. and China are at a critical moment in history-each nation is deeply interested in, but knows very little about, the other," said playwright David Henry Hwang. "CHINGLISH was born from the many visits I've made to China over the past five or six years to witness the exciting changes there. During one visit, I toured a new arts center where everything was first-rate-except for the ridiculously translatEd English signs. It was at that moment that I thought of writing this play."

Leigh Silverman, who directed Lisa Kron's Well on Broadway and won a 2011 OBIE Award for directing both Go Back To Where You Are and In The Wake, will return to direct the Broadway production.

CHINGLISH ran at Goodman Theatre from June 18th through July 31st.

The design team includes: Set Designer David Korins (Lombardi, Passing Strange), Costume Designer Anita Yavich (Anna in the Tropics) and Lighting Designer Brian MacDevitt (The Book of Mormon, Fences, Goodman: Long Day's Journey into Night).

The Broadway production will be produced by Jeffrey Richards, Jerry Frankel, Jay & Cindy Gutterman/Cathy Chernoff, Dasha Epstein, Ronald Frankel, Hunter Arnold, Herbert Goldsmith, Barry & Carole Kaye, Mary Lu Roffe, David & Barbara Stoller in association with Goodman Theatre.

For more information, visit www.chinglishbroadway.com.