In 1993 David Henry Hwang wrote a comedy inspired by his experience protesting the Miss Saigon yellowface casting controversy. It ended in disaster…or did it?

Madame Butterfly returned to Broadway in 1991 in the form of the musical Miss Saigon. It brought along one of the biggest casting controversies to hit New York in living memory.

The story of M. Butterfly, David Henry Hwang's 1988 Broadway debut that broke apart the classic opera Madama Butterfly and called out its racist underpinning.

In March of 1900, David Belasco premiered a new one-act on Broadway: Madame Butterfly. The work has had a ripple effect right up until the current day.