NEW YORK — The show must — and will — go on for the stars of “Emmett Till, A New American Opera” amid a barrage of negative attention stemming from an online petition calling for its cancellation last week.
The show has come under internet ire for — according to Change.org petition organizer Mya Bishop — being written by a white woman, being centered on “white guilt” and “[exacerbating] the adultification of Black children which has historically led to their brutalization.”
The premiere is still scheduled for the Gerald W. Lynch Theater at New York City’s John Jay College on Wednesday.
