A new playwright-in-residence at the Pershing Square Signature Theatre Center, David Henry Hwang will see three of his plays mounted there this season: "Golden Child," his 1995 Obie Award-winner about a 19th-century Chinese family faced with Westernization, which began previews last week ahead of a Nov. 13 opening; "The Dance and the Railroad," his 1981 tale about Chinese laborers building the Transcontinental Railroad in 1860s California, which opens in February; and a new show, "Kung Fu," which uses song and dance to tell the story of Bruce Lee, set for a Fall 2013 premiere.

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