It is a comedy about an American businessman desperate to launch a new enterprise in China, which opened on Broadway in 2011 with direction by Leigh Silverman.

With a career spanning more than three decades and a canon that incorporates an array of genres, David is one of the luminaries of contemporary American theater.

[4][5] The sets were by David Korins, costumes by Anita Yavich, lighting by Brian MacDevitt, sound by Darron L. West and projections by Jeff Sugg and Shawn Duan.

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.

-David Henry Hwang, Playwright Source: Internet Broadway Database[7] Directed by Jeff Liu The production earned glowing praise from the Chicago Tribune, which wrote: "Four stars!

(The Chinese-screen set, the costumes and lights are wonderful too, and East West [Players] has taken particular care with the Mandarin; each of its speakers was either born in China or immersed in the language.).