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{{Infobox play
| name =Trying to Find Chinatown
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| writer = [[David Henry Hwang]]
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| premiere = March 29, 1996
| place = [[Actors Theatre of Louisville]]
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'''''Trying to Find Chinatown''''' is a 1996 play by [[United States|American]] [[playwright]] [[David Henry Hwang]]. It deals with issues of [[Race (classification of human beings)|racial identity]] by pitting an Asian street musician against a Caucasian man who claims [[Asian American]] heritage.

The Caucasian man is on his way to the house his recently deceased father was born in, which he claims is [[Chinatown]]. The [[violin]]ist is angered by the white man's insistence he's Asian, not knowing that the white man was adopted by Asian-American parents.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.enotes.com/topics/trying-find-chinatown|title=Trying to Find Chinatown Summary |website=eNotes.com|access-date=7 January 2022}}</ref>

The play premiered as part of the [[Actors Theatre of Louisville]]'s [[Humana Festival]] on March 29, 1996.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.actorstheatre.org/HUMANA%20FESTIVAL%20CDROM/date.htm |title=Actors Theatre of Louisville Chronology |work=Humana Festival |access-date=June 1, 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090404095637/http://www.actorstheatre.org/HUMANA%20FESTIVAL%20CDROM/date.htm |archivedate=April 4, 2009 }}</ref> It was directed by [[Paul McCrane]].

It is published as the titular play in the collection ''Trying to Find Chinatown: The Selected Plays'' by [[Theatre Communications Group]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://tcg.org/ecommerce/showbookdetails.cfm?ID=TCG572 |title=Trying to Find Chinatown: The Selected Plays |work=TCG |access-date=June 1, 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120308132538/http://www.tcg.org/ecommerce/showbookdetails.cfm?ID=TCG572 |archivedate=March 8, 2012 }}</ref> and as one title in a dual acting edition with Hwang's ''[[Bondage (play)|Bondage]]'' published by [[Dramatists Play Service]].<ref>{{Cite web
|url= http://dramatists.com/cgi-bin/db/single.asp?key=708
|title=Trying to Find Chinatown and Bondage
|work=Dramatists Play Service
|access-date=June 1, 2010
}}</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{David Henry Hwang}}

[[Category:Plays by David Henry Hwang]]
[[Category:1996 plays]]
[[Category:Plays set in the United States]]
[[Category:Plays about race and ethnicity]]

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