David Henry Hwang was something of a golden child himself, plucked by Joe Papp when still a Stanford undergrad for his professional debut. Now fully grown and beginning his Signature season, Hwang revives this memory play about a wealthy Chinese patriarch torn between traditional values and his attraction to the West.
Tuesdays-Fridays, Sundays, 7:30 p.m.; Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Saturdays, Sundays, 2 p.m. Starts: Oct. 23. Continues through Dec. 16, 2012