Certificate is valid for a year, but try not to miss M. Butterfly, May 8 through June 8, winner of the Tony Award for Best Play by David Henry Hwang and directed by Charles Newell.

M. Butterflyis an exquisitely delicate and aggressively original play about sex, espionage, and Imperialism. Skillfully intertwining the story of Puccinis opera Madame Butterfly with an extraordinary plot inspired by true events, M. Butterfly untangles the story of Rene Gallimard, a meek French civil servant who meets the woman of his dreams in Song Liling, a beautiful, Chinese opera diva.

What Gallimard doesnt realize or refuses to see is that his modest Chinese girl may be much more than she appears. M. Butterfly has become a post-modern classic whose exploration of the sexual politics of East and West continues to resonate today.