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 enough themes and references to make a theatergoer's head spin, especially at ...
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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 ...