Across America: Using theater for cross-cultural dialogue

( chinadaily.com.cn )

Updated: 2012-05-23

Asian-American playwright David Henry Hwang talks to reporters at the Foreign Press Center in New York on May 17. After the recent success of his Broadway show "Chinglish", Hwang is working on another musical, about kungfu legend Bruce Lee. He said his plays about Chinese-Americans aims to create "characters that seem as human as possible" and thus counter one-dimensional cultural stereotypes. [Chen Weihua / China Daily]