This author's librettos include one for Philip Glass's 1000 Airplanes on the Roof. His last play, a Pulitzer finalist, centers on a character named Lone who trains a friend in opera amidst a California strike in 1867; it was titled The Dance and the Railroad. In another work, he wrote about Mark and Terri, who portray different races at an S&M parlor in Los Angeles. He earned an Obie Award in 1981 for a work about the encounter between Dale, an A.B.C., his cousin Grace, and Steve, the title char
This author's librettos include one for Philip Glass's 1000 Airplanes on the Roof. His last play, a Pulitzer finalist, centers on a character named Lone who trains a friend in opera amidst a California strike in 1867; it was titled The Dance and the Railroad. In another work, he wrote about Mark and Terri, who portray different races at an S&M parlor in Los Angeles. He earned an Obie Award in 1981 for a work about the encounter between Dale, an A.B.C., his cousin Grace, and Steve, the title character of his F.O.B.  FTP, name this first Asian-American writer to win a Tony Award, who is best known for the play M. Butterfly.
This author's librettos include one for Philip Glass's 1000 Airplanes on the Roof.
David Henry Hwang