The Dance and the Railroad

1981 Off-Broadway play

Date premiered1981

Place premieredJoseph Papp Public Theater

Original languageEnglish

The Dance and the Railroad
Written by	David Henry Hwang
Date premiered	1981
Place premiered	Joseph Papp Public Theater
Original language	English

The Dance and the Railroad is a 1981 play by American playwright David Henry Hwang.

His second play, it depicts a strike in a coolie railroad labor camp in the mid-nineteenth century American West.

Production

Ma cited that Hwang would often rewrite the play during rehearsals.^[1]

The play premiered as part of a commission by the New Federal Theatre in 1981.^[2] It had its professional debut on July 16, 1981 Off-Broadway at the Joseph Papp Public Theater. It was directed by John Lone, with Lone and Tzi Ma in the cast.^[3]

Adaptation

The play was adapted and produced on television by the Alpha Repertory Television Service channel, under the direction of Emile Ardolino. This production won a CINE Golden Eagle Award.^[4]

An Off-Broadway revival was produced in 2013 at the Signature Theatre under the direction of May Adrales.^[5]

It is published as part of Trying to Find Chinatown: The Selected Plays by Theatre Communications Group and also in an acting edition published by Dramatists Play Service.

References

↑ "Actor Tzi Ma Rides 'Hell On Wheels' to New Heights". AsAm News. September 1, 2015. Retrieved December 22, 2019.
↑ "Theater". The New York Times.
↑ "Lortel Archives--The Internet Off-Broadway Database". www.lortel.org. Archived from the original on October 13, 2012.
↑ Winner's Archive - CINE
↑ "Signature Theatre in New York City".

v t e Works by David Henry Hwang
Full-length plays	FOB (1980) Family Devotions (1981) Rich Relations (1986) M. Butterfly (1988) Face Value (1993) Golden Child (1996) Peer Gynt (1998) Tibet Through the Red Box (2004) Yellow Face (2007) Chinglish (2011) Kung Fu (2014)
Short plays	The Dance and the Railroad (1981) The House of Sleeping Beauties (1983) The Sound of a Voice (1983) As the Crow Flies (1986) Bondage (1992) Trying to Find Chinatown (1996) Bang Kok (1996) Merchandising (1999) Jade Flowerpots and Bound Feet (2001) The Great Helmsman (2007) A Very DNA Reunion (2010) Cain and Abel (2014)
Film/television	Blind Alleys (1985) M. Butterfly (1993) Golden Gate (1994) The Lost Empire/The Monkey King (2001) Possession (2002) The Affair (2016)
Music theatre	1000 Airplanes on the Roof (1988) The Voyage (1992) The Silver River (1997) Aida (2000) Flower Drum Song (2001) Ainadamar (2003) The Sound of a Voice (2003) Tarzan (2006) Alice in Wonderland (2007) The Fly (2008) Dream of the Red Chamber (2016) An American Soldier (2018) Soft Power (2018)

v t e Films directed by Emile Ardolino
The Dance and the Railroad (1982) He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin' (1983) Dirty Dancing (1987) Chances Are (1989) Three Men and a Little Lady (1990) Sister Act (1992) The Nutcracker (1993) Gypsy (1993)

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