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The Nightingale: La Jolla Playhouse debates yellowface casting

Yellowface. The monster that refuses to die in the final reel. It’s back and this time it’s still personal. As well as political. There’s been another ruck about the use of yellowface casting in theatre, where Asian characters are played by white actors. This time, it’s in the US where La Jolla Playhouse has produced […]

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The Nightingale: La Jolla Playhouse debates yellowface casting

Yellowface. The monster that refuses to die in the final reel. It’s back and this time it’s still personal. As well as political. There’s been another ruck about the use of yellowface casting in theatre, where Asian characters are played by white actors. This time, it’s in the US where La Jolla Playhouse has produced

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Christina Aguilera’s fluff versus Jimi Hendrix’s fuzz: Super Bowl Star Spangled Banner

Poor old Christina Aguilera, booed for fluffing a line of Star Spangled Banner at the opening of Sunday’s Superbowl in Texas. The BBC reports on the offending line: The singer should have sung: “O’er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?” but repeated an earlier line with a slight variation. … Instead of the

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