On the Great White Way, A Christmas Story is milking its wince-inducing “holiday dinner in a Chinese restaurant” gag (“Deck de harr wit bow of horry!”). In its place, seek out a karma correction in Golden Child, David Henry Hwang’s oft-comic drama about another family in transition. The Engs—patriarch Tieng Bin (Greg Watanabe) and his three wives (Julyana Soelistyo, Lesley Hu, and a nefarious Jennifer Lim)—are an influential clan in 1918 China. Tieng Bin’s forward-thinking internationalist becomes intrigued by an awkward English missionary (Matthew Maher), whose broken Chinese is represented here in broken English, and throws his family into uproar. To remix Sir Mix-A-Lot with a vintage Sinoslur: Even white demons got to shout (at the Signature Center through December 16). MORE TODAY:
