What's it like to direct a play amid pickets and religious riots? Stewart Lee on the battle to keep Jerry Springer - the Opera on the roadRichard Thomas' multi-award winning musical Jerry Springer - the Opera, which I directed, is finally on the road. Christian groups scared one-third of possible venues off a proposed tour last year with threats of prosecution for blasphemy, but Plymouth Theatre Royal, Birmingham Hip…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:09AM on July 31, 2016