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Director

The season opens in Fall 2024 with the world premiere of a new musical, We Are Your Robots, by Obie-winning playwright Ethan Lipton (No Place to Go, Tumacho) and directed by two-time Tony nominee Leigh Silverman. Co-produced with Theatre for a New Audience at Polonsky Shakespeare Center in Brooklyn, We Are Your Robots features text and songs by Lipton, and music by his bandmates of 20 years: Eben Levy on guitar, Vito Dieterle on saxophone, and Ian Riggs on bass. The quartet play robots who’ve come to the theater to answer the question, “What do humans want from their machines?” With witty songs that are “twisted, dark and sophisticated both lyrically and musically, yet schleppy, sweet and sad all at once” (NPR), We Are Your Robots looks at brain mapping, consciousness, violence, surveillance, and the problem better known as being human.

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We Are Your Robots

Polonsky Shakespeare Center

**Event Description:**

**Yellow Face at Roundabout Theatre Company**

**Dates:** September 13 - November 24

**Venue:** Todd Haimes Theatre, 227 West 42nd Street, New York, NY (between 7th and 8th Avenues)

**Overview:**
Roundabout Theatre Company proudly presents the Broadway premiere of "Yellow Face," a hilarious and thought-provoking comedy by Tony Award winner and three-time Pulitzer finalist David Henry Hwang. This play, inspired by real events, delves into the complexities of race, identity, and show business. The story follows the playwright’s fictionalized doppelgänger as he protests yellowface casting in "Miss Saigon," only to mistakenly cast a white actor as the Asian lead in his own play.

**Cast & Creative Team:**
- **Starring:** Daniel Dae Kim (Lost)
- **Playwright:** David Henry Hwang
- **Director:** Leigh Silverman (Tony nominee for Violet)

Additional cast and creative team members will be announced at a later date.

**Special Notes:**
"Yellow Face" is an Obie Award-winning and Pulitzer finalist play, made possible by the Champions for Inclusive Theatre and Roundabout’s Forward Fund. The production acknowledges the generous support from Elizabeth Armstrong, Bank of America, Eugene and Joann Bissell, the Lillian Lincoln Foundation, Kevin Brown, Barbara and Peter Bye, Ginger McKnight Chavers, Ford Foundation, Jill and Barry Lafer, Gina Maria Leonetti, Iva Mills, Beryl Snyder, and Denise Littlefield Sobel.

**Ticket Information:**
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Yellow Face

Todd Haimes Theatre

Tony and Emmy Award-winning actor Billy Crudup (Coast of Utopia, No Man’s Land, The Morning Show, Almost Famous) returns to Berkeley Rep in a tour-de-force solo performance helmed by Obie Award-winning director Leigh Silverman (Suffs, Violet, Soft Power, In the Wake). This wickedly funny thriller by Obie Award-winning writer David Cale features the exploits of Philip, an awkward Midwestern man leading an outrageous double life as the cocky Londoner Harry Clarke.

Harry Clarke

Berkeley Repertory Theatre

NYTW Usual Suspect & Former 2050 Artistic Fellow Hansol Jung‘s Merry Me is an intoxicating queer cocktail of restoration comedy and the Greeks, served with a heavy garnish of ridiculous. NYTW Usual Suspect & Tony Award nominee Leigh Silverman directs.

Leigh Silverman

Actor, Director

Events

Upcoming events

Sep 13 - Nov 24, 2024

Yellow Face · Roundabout Theatre Company

Nov 7 - Dec 8, 2024

We Are Your Robots · Rattlestick Theater

Past events

Nov 7 - Dec 8, 2024

We Are Your Robots · Rattlestick Theater

Sep 13 - Nov 24, 2024

Yellow Face · Roundabout Theatre Company

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