Earl R. Merrill: The Idea That It’s Too Risky To Program Plays By Black Playwrights Is A Myth: UK Study

Tuesday, October 30, 2018

The Idea That It’s Too Risky To Program Plays By Black Playwrights Is A Myth: UK Study

“Providing evidence to counteract the idea that such work presents a risk in terms of audiences, ticket revenue or artistic quality, [the report] concludes that ‘it becomes increasingly difficult to justify the reasoning behind risk-averse programming, when risk is all too often closely associated with race’.”