The Washington Post, February 10th, 1988
"A friend of mine came over to dinner one night," recalls playwright David Henry Hwang, "and he said, `Have you heard about this story about this French diplomat who fell in love with a Chinese actress who turned out to be a man?' "And I thought, well that's interesting. I bet I could do something with that." And so, from a crumb of after-dinner gossip, emerged the new play "M. Butterfly" and with it a new Broadway writer. Opening tonight at the National Theatre before going on to New York's Eugene O'Neill Theatre, the production features actor John Lithgow, the direction of John Dexter ("Equu...
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