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If It’s Not OK To Cast A White Character In Blackface, Why Should Broadway Cast A Non-Austistic Kid To Play A Kid With Autism?

THEATRE Posted: April 5, 2015 6:50 am

“In both cases there are life experiences that make an actually autistic and an actually black actor better suited to playing the role in question. More than that, though, there is the simple issue of credibility.”

THEATRE Published: 04.04.15

Read the story in HowlRound Published: 04.04.15

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