David Henry Hwang’s 2007 play, now in a fine Broadway revival, is a pointed critique of identity, masquerading as a mockumentary.

David Henry Hwang’s “Yellow Face” on Broadway tackles tricky questions of representation, authenticity and who gets to tell whose story.

Playing the character of "DHH," the actor Daniel Dae Kim begins "Yellow Face," the new production of David Henry Hwang's play, standing within a box, from which he promptly strides out. It's a crisp and clear visual metaphor in a production hardly short on them (the two onstage boxes rotate to conjure the various locations