A critic weighs San Francisco Playhouse's "M. Butterfly" against Pocket Opera's "Madame Butterfly," probing racism, desire and why Puccini still seduces.

"M. Butterfly," playwright David Henry Hwang's 1988 Tony Award winner onstage at San Francisco Playhouse, is chockful of ...

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 ...

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The inherent challenge of David Bowie's hit song "China Girl" – which plays when the lights go up on the Jewish Ensemble Theatre's production of "M. Butterfly" – is that it offends you while also ...

Playwright David Henry Hwang is currently playing doctor on Broadway. Armed with a notebook, he goes to the Richard Rodgers Theatre, where Disney’s musical extravaganza “Tarzan” is in previews (it ...

When it premiered back in 1988 its blurring the lines of male and female roles seemed shocking and even implausible. Based on the real-life story of Bernard Bouriscot, a low-level French foreign ...