Theatre should challenge us. But we shouldn’t be afraid that the guns are real | Steph Harmon

In New York, mass shootings and racism are dominating the news. On Broadway, the news seems to seep into every show

Two nights before I saw Aaron Sorkin’s adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird on Broadway, the audience had scrambled, screaming, to get out of the same theatre.

Towards the end of the show last Tuesday, people outside began banging on the doors to get in, looking for refuge after a motorcycle backfiring in Times Square was mistaken for gunshots.

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