Chicago’s Porchlight Music Theater is in hot water for their recent decision to cast a white actor in a Latino role, first played by the show’s writer Lin-Manuel Miranda. Their production of In the Heights will star Jack DeCesare, of Italian heritage, as Usnavi. The show is set in Dominican-American neighborhood in New York’s Washington […]
SOURCE: culturebytes.org at 03:26PM on August 12, 2016