For decades, student productions have faced scrutiny over whether they are age-appropriate, and more recently over how they portray race, gender and sexuality — affecting several show selections. School plays are getting hit by the culture wars:
Stevie Ray Dallimore, an actor and teacher, had been running the theater program for a private boys’ school in Chattanooga, Tennessee, for a decade, but he never faced a school year like this one.
“This is obviously a countrywide issue that we are a small part of,” Dallimore said. “It’s definitely part of a bigger movement — a strongly concerted effort of politics and religion going hand in hand, banning books and trying to erase history and villainizing otherness.
“We’re seeing a lot of teachers self-censoring,” said Jennifer Katona, the executive director of the Educational Theater Association, an organization of theater teachers. “Even if it’s just a bunch of girls dressed as ‘Newsies’ boys, which would not have been a big deal a few years ago, that’s now a big deal.”
Gregg turned down the request, thinking, he said, that “you probably have gay kids in your theater program, and it sends a terrible message to them.”
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