Yellow Face virtual staged reading at Sierra Madre Playhouse

The next entry in the Off the Page series of virtual staged readings produced by Sierra Madre Playhouse is Yellow Face by David Henry Hwang. Because of the pandemic, we cannot present this event to a live audience inside the Playhouse, but you will be to access it online via YouTube beginning at Noon on Wednesday, July 8, 2020. Viewing time will continue throughout the day until 11:59 p.m. The event is 120 minutes in duration with a ten-minute intermission. You may begin viewing at any time, but you must commence viewing by 10:00 p.m. in order to see the entire reading. This event is FREE, but donations are accepted. HOW TO REGISTER: Use this link: https://ci.ovationtix.com/35040/production/1030062?performanceId=10551708Under "General Admission," select the number of people for whom you would like to make a reservations. Select "Checkout" and follow further instructions to complete checkoutNo physical tickets are required for this event! (Please disregard the "Will Call" ticket info from the purchase confirmation email). Let us know if you do not receive a confirmation email.Youll be sent a link at 11 a.m. PDT on Wednesday with which to access the event via YouTube. Reservations will close at 10 a.m. on Wednesday. If you need assistance, contact info@sierramadreplayhouse.orgBONUS! Be sure to also join us for a live post-show talkback with Sierra Madre Playhouse Artistic Director Christian Lebano, Director Drew Barr, and a cast member on Thursday, July 9 at 6:00 pm PDT. The link to access this talkback will be sent after the show.The lines between truth and fiction blur with hilarious and moving results in David Henry Hwang's unreliable memoir. Asian-American playwright DHH, fresh off his Tony award win for M. Butterfly, leads a protest against the casting of Jonathan Pryce as the Eurasian pimp in the original Broadway production of Miss Saigon, condemning the practice as "yellowface." His position soon comes back to haunt him when he mistakes a Caucasian actor, Marcus G. Dahlman, for mixed-race, and casts him in the lead Asian role of his own Broadway-bound comedy, Face Value. When DHH discovers the truth of Marcus' ethnicity, he tries to conceal his blunder to protect his reputation as an Asian-American role model, by passing the actor off as a "Siberian Jew." Meanwhile, DHH's father, Henry Y. Hwang, an immigrant who loves the American Dream and Frank Sinatra, finds himself ensnared in the same web of late-1990's anti-Chinese paranoia that also leads to the "Donorgate" scandal and the arrest of Los Alamos nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee. As he clings to his old multicultural rhetoric, this new racist witch hunt forces DHH to confront the complex and ever-changing role that "face" plays in American life today.
Ages: 12 to Adult.