An Attempt At Color-Conscious Casting Has Opened Up A Massive Theater Debate

Playwright Edward Albee in 2008. Scott Wintrow / Getty Images Casting director and producer Michael Streeter was “furious and dumbfounded” when he was told he couldn’t cast a black actor in his planned production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in Portland, Oregon. “The [Edward] Albee Estate called and said I need to fire the black actor and replace him with a white one,”…

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