David Henry Hwang was already a Pulitzer Prize finalist for his comedy Yellow Face back in 2007, but the acclaimed play only just landed on Broadway this season courtesy of Roundabout Theater Company.

And, in this matter, mostly for the better. Hwang’s semi-autobiographical play, “Yellow Face,” new on Broadway by Roundabout Theatre Company, actually premiered some 17 years ago in Los ...

Victims suffered from jaundice, high fever and black vomit. For more than two hundred years, yellow fever — as the disease became known — attacked numerous American cities, usually in severe ...

Yellow fever appeared in the U.S. in the late 17th century. The deadly virus continued to strike cities, mostly eastern seaports and Gulf Coast cities, for the next two hundred years, killing ...