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Why Is Peter Pan Always Played By a Woman?

THEATRE Posted: January 29, 2014 12:48 am

There are certainly teenaged boys who could do it, and J.M. Barrie originally wanted the stage role to be filled by a male. So how did we end up with Mary Martin and Cathy Rigby? A combination of historical happenstance and English labour law.

THEATRE Published: 01.23.14

Read the story in Slate Published: 01.23.14

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