As a sometime tenant at Lincolnf Center, the festival produced the works of black playwrights Ron Milner, Bill Gunn, and Ed Bullins. There have been productions of Shakespeare, Chekhov, and O'Neill with all-black casts. Hwang's plays at the Public Theater illustrates the New York Shakespeare Festival's continuing commitment to ethnic interests. It commemorates the role of Chinese immigrant labor in helping expand the American frontier. "The Dance and the Railroad," on the other hand, is part of the city's colorful patchwork quilt of indigenous ethnic playmaking. While more exotic than most, the thespians from the People's Republic of China were nevertheless part of the train of overseas visitors who help animate New York's world of stages. Downtown at the Public Theater, two young Chinese-American actors were drawing on similar classic movements for David Henry Hwang's fascinating dramatic amalgam, "The Dance and the Railroad." Uptown at Lincoln Center, the Peking Opera Company of Shanghai was giving traditionally stylized performances of fragments from its classic repertoire. It was close encounter of a theatrical kind.
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