David Henry Hwang returns to Broadway with a trojan horse of a play titled Yellow Face, now playing at the Todd Haimes Theatre. On one hand, the play is about the performance of race. On the very same hand, it is about fathers and sons.

The lounge at CitizenM Hotel, Manhattan. 7pm, Tuesday. Timothy Huang and David Henry Hwang sit in red swivel lounge chairs, cocktails in hand, chatting inaudibly. A Chinese Woman, 40s, enters.

The first time I confronted my racial identity, it was a literal test. In the mid-2000s, my triplet siblings and I were taking our first standardized exams at our public elementary school. Our teachers instructed us to fill in only one test-sheet bubble corresponding with our race.