Family Devotions is a 1981 play by American playwright David Henry Hwang

David Henry Hwang

David Henry Hwang is an American playwright who has risen to prominence as the preeminent Asian American dramatist in the U.S.He was born in Los Angeles, California and was educated at the Yale School of Drama and Stanford University...

. Hwang's third play, it depicts the clash of West and East within three generations of an Americanized Chinese family living in a Los Angeles suburb. The play premiered on October 18, 1981 Off-Broadway

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 at the Joseph Papp Public Theater. It was directed by Robert Allan Ackerman, with Michael Paul Chan

Michael Paul Chan

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, Jodi Long

Jodi Long

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, Lauren Tom

Lauren Tom

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, and Victor Wong

Victor Wong

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. The play was nominated for a Drama Desk Award

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It is published as part of Trying to Find Chinatown: The Selected Plays by Theatre Communications Group

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. and also in an acting edition published by Dramatists Play Service

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