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 ...

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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 ...

Featuring an expansion of movement and original compositions, SF Playhouse presents David Henry Hwang’s beautifully written “M. Butterfly” from Feb. 5 through March 14. Curtain Calls: ‘The Sweet ...

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 ...

The Tony Award-winning play "M. Butterfly" is opening this week at the San Francisco Playhouse. The production follows French diplomat René Gallimard, who becomes involved in a decades-long ...

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 ...

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 ...

M. Butterfly opens at San Francisco Playhouse exploring love, power and identity The Tony Award-winning play M. Butterfly is opening this week at the San Francisco Playhouse, bringing a story of love, ...