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David Henry Hwang's Yellow Face is back this season, courtesy of Roundabout Theatre Company, and this time, it's on Broadway ... only to mistakenly cast a white actor as the Asian lead in his ...
Daniel Dae Kim, Kevin Del Aguila, Marinda Anderson and Francis Jue in "Yellow Face" on Broadway ... Asian-American actors who had been cast in this large Broadway company out of work.
In recent years, several Broadway productions have cast black actors in traditionally white roles. In 2018, “King Kong” cast Christiani Pitts, the first woman of color to portray Ann Darrow ...
Jackson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning musical A Strange Loop arrives on Broadway ... suggested casting A Strange Loop with a Black and queer-identifying cast. Only later did Jackson start digging ...
New Amsterdam star Ryan Eggold and Tony Award-nominated Kevin Del Aguila will join the previously announced Daniel Dae Kim on Broadway this ... only to mistakenly cast a white actor as the Asian ...
To the credit of director Leigh Silverman and actor Daniel Dae Kim, the first Broadway ... the real “Face Value” in 1993 was cast with Mark Linn-Baker and BD Wong, not a white actor named ...
With “Hamilton” available on Disney+ this weekend, the biggest sensation in Broadway ... the original cast of mostly Black and brown faces assuming the roles of historic white figures, a ...
David Henry Hwang’s Yellow Face debuted Off Broadway ... his white actor Marcus (a funny and sweetly earnest Ryan Eggold) decides he rather likes being Asian. He certainly enjoys the cast ...
CHICAGO (CBS) -- You're never too old to make history, and the classic Broadway show "Phantom of the Opera" is proof. The New York cast is adding its first Black actress in the lead role of ...
By Sarah Bahr White actors ... because Broadway theaters do not publish their negotiated salaries. Approximately 23 percent of roles over all at New York City theaters went to Black actors ...