Revisiting a Beloved Child: Playwright David Henry Hwang on the Off-Broadway Journey of Golden Child

Broadway Buzz | Broadway.com: Plays are never finished, only abandoned. I don’t know who originally said that, but I agree. I’m one of those dramatists who loves to rewrite, who believes we are called play-wrights because we painstakingly craft our works into existence. The first time I hear a new script, I’m thinking about how to fix its problems. I continue to refine and rework through workshops, rehearsals and preview performances. At some point, however, the game gets called; Opening Night approaches. The critics are coming, so the show gets “frozen,” and I can make no further changes. Writing a play is like raising a child. You do your best, then one day, you run out of time. Your child leaves, and goes out into the world.