The Dance and the Railroad is a 1981 play by American playwright David Henry Hwang.
His second play, it depicts a strike in a coolie railroad labor camp in the mid-nineteenth century American West.
[2] It had its professional debut on July 16, 1981 Off-Broadway at the Joseph Papp Public Theater.
[4] An Off-Broadway revival was produced in 2013 at the Signature Theatre under the direction of May Adrales.
[5] It is published as part of Trying to Find Chinatown: The Selected Plays by Theatre Communications Group and also in an acting edition published by Dramatists Play Service.