By: Samuel L. Leiter October 4, 2024: It wasn't until the 1930s that, apart from a few exceptions (including stars Ethel Barrymore and Walter Hampden), mainstream New York theater abandoned the practice of white actors playing Black characters in blackface. The practice of whites playing Asians in what is called yellowface"in the small number of cases where the roles were important (like The King and I or A Majori…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:02PM on October 4, 2024