Golden Child (play)

Golden Child
Written by	David Henry Hwang
Characters	Eng Siu-Yong Andrew Kwong Eng Tieng-Bin Elizabeth Kwong Eng Eling Reverend Anthony Baines Eng Luan Eng Ahn and others
Date premiered	November 19, 1996
Place premiered	Public Theater New York City, New York
Original language	English
Subject	Religion/Family
Genre	Drama
Setting	Manhattan and Eng Tieng-Bin's home village near Amoy, in Southeast China. The Present, Winter 1918 and Spring 1919.

Golden Child is a play by American playwright David Henry Hwang. Hwang's second Broadway play, it depicts an early twentieth-century Chinese family being faced with Westernization.

Golden Child is a co-production with the South Coast Repertory, (Costa Mesa, California) and the Public Theater. The play premiered Off-Broadway on November 19, 1996 at the Joseph Papp Public Theater, closing on December 8, 1996. It was directed by James Lapine, with Tsai Chin and Jodi Long. The production won the 1996-1997 Obie Awards: Performance, Tsai Chin and Playwriting, David Henry Hwang.

The play was revised for the production at the South Coast Repertory, where it ran in January 1997, again directed by Lapine. According to an article in the Los Angeles Times, "Hwang has improved it--if not miraculously, than at least discernibly. He has added cogency to the short framing scenes that begin and end the story, and several other key scenes are clearer and stronger. As a result, "Golden Child" is more riveting and more moving, though it continues to suffer in part from over-explanation." The play next had engagements at the Singapore Repertory Theatre in January 1998 and the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco in February 1998 to March 15, 1998.

The play premiered on Broadway at the Longacre Theatre on April 2, 1998 and closed on May 31, 1998. This production was also directed by Lapine, with Randall Duk Kim and Ming-Na Wen in addition to Long. It was nominated for the 1998 Tony Award for Best Play, as well as Costume Design (Play or Musical) (Martin Pakledinaz) and Featured Actress in a Play (Julyana Soelistyo).

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