Police Shut Down Shanghai Production Of M. Butterfly
The English-language staging of David Henry Hwang's "play centred around homosexuality and the Cultural Revolution, both taboo subjects in China," was in the middle of its second performance when "[p]olicemen arrived … and said that the show was being performed without a licence and should therefore cease." The Telegraph (UK) 11/27/09

Posted December 3, 2009 10:04 PM