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Broadway’s ‘Suffs’ Disrupted When Activists Unfurl Sign Calling The Tony-Winning Musical A “White Wash”
Last night’s performance of the Broadway musical Suffs, the two-time Tony-winning musical about the suffragist movement written by Shaina Taub that counts Hillary Clinton among its producers, was briefly disrupted when a group of self-identified “radical, anti-racist, queer feminists” unfurled a banner from box seats near the stage. During the performance, as a banner with […]
The disruption was the second for a Broadway show in the last four months: On March 15, the climate activist group Extinction Rebellion brought An Enemy of the People, starring Jeremy Strong and Michael Imperioli, to a temporary halt with chants of “No theater on a dead planet.” In fact, Suffs deals explicitly with those issues, with one of the musical’s major dramatic conflicts arising when Alice Paul, the white suffragist (played by Taub) who organizes a major protest march in 1913 demanding women be given the right to vote, is informed that Southern delegations of the marchers will withdraw from the event if Black suffragists are allowed to join in. The show’s producers and creative team declined to respond specifically to the group’s complaints, with a production representative releasing a brief statement to Deadline saying, “We can confirm this incident happened at last night’s performance of Suffs, and at no point was the safety of any company members or patrons at the Music Box Theatre compromised.”
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