FOB is a 1980 Obie Award-winning play by American playwright David Henry Hwang. Hwang's first play, it depicts the contrasts and conflicts between established Asian Americans and "Fresh Off the Boat" newcomer immigrants. The play premiered at the Stanford Asian American Theatre Project in 1979 under the direction of the author and was further developed at the National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center. It received its professional debut on June 8, 1980 Off-Broadway at Joseph Papp's Public Theater. It was directed by Mako, with John Lone and Tzi Ma in the cast. 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.
External links
- 2005 revival by the Asian American Theater Company
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2004: A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant • 2003: Bug, The Romance of Magno Rubio, Take Me Out • 1998: Golden Child, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Mineola Twins • 1996: How I Learned to Drive, Rent, The Vagina Monologues • 1995: Floyd Collins, Love! Valour! Compassion! • 1989: Spunk • 1980: FOB • 1979: Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You • 1975: For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf • 1974: Short Eyes • 1973: Bad Habits, Hot L Baltimore, When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder? • 1971: The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel • 1968: The Indian Wants the Bronx • 1964: Home Movies |
| Obie Award recipients • Musical theatre • Broadway theatre • Off Broadway • Off-Off-Broadway • West End theatre |
