Friday, July 27, 2018

NYT Theatre Critic Makes Flippant Gender Reference In Review And Gets Pummeled Online

In a review of Head Over Heels, the hybrid Go-Go’s jukebox musical and Elizabethan farcethat opened on Broadway last night, the New York Times’s chief theater critic Ben Brantley misgenders the character of an oracle played by former Drag Racecontestant Peppermint, who happens to be making her debut as the first openly trans woman actor to create a principal role on Broadway.



Article source here:Arts Journal

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