There is going to be fury on Broadway tomorrow, and a lot of sighing, privately, from the people who run the real show.The Great White Way has been under fire since Black Lives Matter for it’s supposed lack of diversity.
There have been diversity initiatives, diversity committees and a great deal of “soul searching” about how to make the theater more welcoming to minorities.And yet for all of that, the shock at the Tony Awards last night was that “The Inheritance,” a play about gay men (of all ethnicities) beat out “Slave Play,” Jeremy O.
Harris’ sexually-charged, explosive play about the fundamental racism of America.“Slave Play” was thought to be the favorite.
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