“M. Butterfly,” playwright David Henry Hwang’s 1988 Tony Award winner onstage at San Francisco Playhouse, is chockful of enough themes and references to make a theatergoer’s head spin, especially at first. Among them are international intrigue and the prelude to the Vietnam War and the age-old battle of the sexes and the ways in which it is reflected in the “East is East and West is West” dichotomy: “The West believes […]
