In 'Soft Power' musical, playwright David Henry Hwang tackles racism, U.S.-China relations

'Soft Power' is a gonzo musical about the chaos of American democracy.

A singing, tap-dancing Hillary Clinton. A bright-eyed Broadway producer from mainland China. A Chinese American playwright stabbed in the neck in a random hate crime." is a gonzo musical about Anti-Asian racism, U.S.-China relations, and the chaos of American democracy.about how he wrote himself and his political anxieties into"Soft Power." A new version of the musical is now playing in the Washington D.C. region with an all-Asian cast.

The musical gets surreal pretty quickly. It’s about a playwright thinking about how to write this story. And then he gets stabbed in a moment of anti-Asian violence in America. That actually happened to you, didn't it? “We've been through this very tumultuous period, and we continue to be in an almost fever dream-like reality. I mean, if you look at just what has happened in the last two months in our electoral life in this country. And so, you know, the Chinese point of view is why do people have to vote? It just creates chaos.

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