Back in 1990, the playwright David Henry Hwang protested a decision to bring “Miss Saigon” to Broadway with Jonathan Pryce cast as an Asian character.

Playing the character of "DHH," the actor Daniel Dae Kim begins "Yellow Face," the new production of David Henry Hwang's play, standing within a box, from which he promptly strides out. It's a crisp and clear visual metaphor in a production hardly short on them (the two onstage boxes rotate to conjure the various locations

David Henry Hwang’s Yellow Face debuted Off Broadway 17 years ago, spinning a farcical tale about a real-life Broadway controversy that had taken place some 17 years before that. How it manages to be relevant,