Though it bent (and blew) the minds of rapt audiences with its elusive opalescence nearly three decades ago, David Henry Hwang's 'M. Butterfly' returns to Broadway on heavier, drabber wings. True, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Song Liling (Edric Young, left) and Rene Gallimard (Dean Linnard) share a moment in San Francisco Playhouse's "M. Butterfly." ...

Golden Globe-winning actor Clive Owen will star in a Broadway revival of David Henry Hwang’s Tony-winning 1988 drama “M. Butterfly,” the show’s producers announced Monday. Tony winner Julie Taymor ...

One thing is for certain: David Henry Hwang’s “M. Butterfly” is a complex and disturbing play. We can look at it in two ways: as about gender and sexuality, and as about delusion and idolatry. At ...

Physically and cerebrally Clive Owen has the chameleonic qualities that define a certain kind of star charisma: He’s handsome but not pretty; suave in a way that practically advertises insecurity; ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dean Linnard as Rene Gallimard, left, and Edric Young as Song Liling in San Francisco Playhouse's "M. Butterfly." (Jessica ...

There’s a moment during the San Francisco Playhouse production of David Henry Hwang’s “M. Butterfly” when the fetching Peking Opera performer Song Liling (a man dressed as a woman) half turns to the ...

Playwright David Henry Hwang provides ample reasons to dislike his 1988 Tony-winning smash, M. Butterfly. Director Charles Newell, in his confused, miscast revival for Court Theatre, provides a few ...

For over a century, the idea of a romance between a white man from the West and a beautiful, rather submissive and younger woman from the East has held opera composers and playwrights rapt. Puccini’s ...