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In 1906, the Lord Chamberlain's office banned a production of The Mikado, fearing that it would offend Japan's visiting Prince Fushimi. Above: Richard Temple as the title character in the original 1885 production of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera The Mikado.
Thinking About Theater
Of Censors and Correctors (Part II)
Henry Fielding, Henrik Ibsen, Arthur Miller, The Mikado, and the pawnbroker's shop sign.
Frank Wedekind's play Spring Awakening (Frühlings Erwachen), source of the currently running Broadway musical of the same name, could be viewed only in private, members-only clubs until the Theatrical Licensing Act was repealed in 1968. Pictured above: Austin P. McKenzie and Patrick Page in Deaf West Theater's Spring Awakening.
Thinking About Theater
Of Censors and Correctors
Henry Fielding, Henrik Ibsen, Arthur Miller, The Mikado, and the pawnbroker's shop sign.
Hirschfeld's caricature of Ed Asner and Bernadette Peters in a revival of Born Yesterday.
Thinking About Theater
Hirschfeld, Kahn, Coleman: Theater Lives Worth Contemplating
Three new books and an art exhibit take a closer look at remarkable show-biz careers.
Katharine Hepburn portrayed a Chinese peasant in the 1944 film Dragon Seed.
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Should Kristin Chenoweth Play Paul Robeson?
How ethnicity and gender have complicated casting.
Ruthie Ann Miles in the original off-Broadway production of Here Lies Love at the Public Theater.
Thinking About Theater
Staying Power and the Power to Leave
Why shows can be — but shouldn't be — walked out of.
Linzi Hateley as the title character in Lawrence D. Cohen, Michael Gore, and Dean Pitchford's musical Carrie, directed by Terry Hands, at Broadway's Virginia Theatre in 1988.
Thinking About Theater
Talking of Turkeys (Part II)
How to tell a legendary disaster from a simple flop.
Kevin Kline as Lear with Kristen Bush as Cordelia in the 2007 Public Theater revival of King Lear, directed by James Lapine.
Thinking About Theater
Lear, There, and Everywhere (Part II)
Further reflections on a tormenting play.
Michael Shannon as Berenger and Ryan Quinn as The Killer in Theatre for a New Audience's production of Eugène Ionesco's The Killer, directed by Darko Tresnjak, at Brooklyn's Polonsky Shakespeare Center.
Thinking About Theater
Me, the World, and The Killer
Translate Ionesco, and who knows what planet you might wake up on.