Race And Casting In Classic Plays

Think Out Loud | May 23, 2017
A local theater producer has been denied the rights to the play“Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” because he planned to cast a black actor in one of the lead roles. We talk to producer Michael Streeter, and Princeton theater professor Brian Eugenio Herrera about race, and casting, and the role they play in theater today.

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