For American playwright Elizabeth Wong, writing for the theater is, at its core, a mode of response. In her works she has responded to timely political crises such as the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989 and the African American boycott of Korean American-owned businesses in Brooklyn in 1990 as well as more individually affecting topics such as the race- and gender-based struggles of pioneering Chinese American actress Anna May Wong in early Hollywood. Her engagement with these subjects is often a reflection of Wong's identity and experiences as a Chinese American living in multicultural urban America in the second half of the twentieth century. As a child of Chinese immigrant parents, Wong inevitably encountered the many tensions resulting from the collision of traditional Chinese expectations and values with culturally diverse American realities. And while most of the generational and cultural conflicts in her dramas do not settle into easy compromise...