Sound and Beauty is the omnibus title of two plays by American playwright David Henry Hwang.
His fifth play, The Sound of a Voice, is a ghost story inspired by Japanese films and folk tales.
The one-act plays were produced together and premiered on November 6, 1983 Off-Broadway at the Joseph Papp Public Theater.
The Sound of a Voice was later adapted as an opera of the same name (which encompassed two short works),[2] with libretto by Hwang and music by Philip Glass.
It was also adapted as a film, Sound of a Voice, written by Lane Nishikawa and Natsuko Ohama, and directed by Susan Hoffman.