As a great melting pot, the United States is well known for its multiplicity of races. In order to maintain diversity, the U.S. government not only welcomes people from different backgrounds, but also sends Americans all over the world to learn from diverse cultures. Even though relations between countries are becoming closer, there are still many negative stereotypes and labeling among multi-ethnic groups, which are more common between Easterners and Westerners. Along with a sharply increasing number of Asians visiting America, Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington, which has never experienced so many exotic cultures before, faces both the opportunities and challenges of Asian civilization. Accordingly, for the fourth selection of plays, M. Butterfly, written by David Henry Hwang, is a fitting selection within the Illinois Wesleyan Theater Program season. David Henry Hwang, a Chinese-American playwright, is interested in the role of Asians in today's world and therefore, with his unique perspectives, he attempts to reveal and criticize the prejudices of Asians, especially of Chinese in the United States. Unlike the other comedies and musicals chosen previously, M. Butterfly is more of a tragedy, which can enrich the genres in this season. Throughout this play, audiences will explore fantastical cultural stereotypes between East and West, as well as misconceptions about gender and sexual identity. The play M. Butterfly is inspired by the opera Madama Butterfly by René Giacomo Puccini. It is based on the absurd but true story of Gallimard, a French diplomat who has a twenty-year affair with Song Liling, a beautiful Chinese diva, without realizing that her lover is actually a spy posing as a woman. . In the play, G...... middle of paper ......ang accurately depicts normative Western cultural attitudes toward the Orient by experiencing both cultures, thus establishing a connection emotional between the audience and the characters; On the other hand, by logically inserting historical events into the play, including the Vietnam War and the Chinese Cultural Revolution, Hwang managed to make the story more compelling. Butterfly, a profound masterpiece, shatters audiences' normative views of the Orient and gender with dramatic irony and careful manner. In the intercultural society we live in today, eliminating stereotypes about Orientals as well as different ethnic groups plays a decisive role in effective communication across the world. As the fourth play of this season, we hope that audiences will no longer impose any labels on different cultural communities and also get rid of stereotypes towards people around the world..