Broadway Shouldn’t Fire You for Being Black: Stephen L. Carter

Suppose you have a Black employee. You tell her she’s going to be fired because you need a White employee in that position. She sues. She wins, right? Well, not necessarily. Not if we’re talking about casting a Broadway musical.

That’s the implication of a decision last week by a New York federal judge in a case that raises important questions about the interplay between discrimination and creative freedom.

The lawsuit was filed by Kim Moore, who under the stage name Kim Steele had played the part of “Worker #1” in Hadestown, which in 2019 won the Tony Award for ...