{"id":171670,"date":"2025-05-31T10:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T10:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/31\/500-broadway-artists-sign-open-letter-condemning-patti-lupone\/"},"modified":"2025-05-31T10:00:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T10:00:11","slug":"500-broadway-artists-sign-open-letter-condemning-patti-lupone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/31\/500-broadway-artists-sign-open-letter-condemning-patti-lupone\/","title":{"rendered":"500 Broadway artists sign open letter condemning Patti LuPone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<p>        <time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2025-05-31\" datetime=\"1748685611\" pubdate=\"\">31 May 2025<\/time>\n    <\/p>\n<p>Over 500 Broadway artists have signed an open letter condemning Patti LuPone.<\/p>\n<p>                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">500 Broadway artists sign open letter condemning Patti LuPone<\/p>\n<p>After Patti, 76, hit out at fellow actors Kecia Lewis, who she called a b****, and Audra McDonald, who she said was \u201cnot a friend\u201d in a recent New Yorker interview, a number of fellow professionals blasted the \u201cdegrading and misogynistic\u201d comments.<\/p>\n<p>The letter \u2013 provided to Playbill \u2013 said of LuPone\u2019s comments about Lewis: \u201cit is a blatant act of racialised disrespect. It constitutes bullying. It constitutes harassment. It is emblematic of the microaggressions and abuse that people in this industry have endured for far too long, too often without consequence\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding LuPone\u2019s remarks about McDonald, the letter states: \u201cTo publicly attack a woman who has contributed to this art form with such excellence, leadership, and grace &#8211; and to discredit the legacy of Audra McDonald, the most nominated and awarded performer in Tony Award history &#8211; is not simply a personal offence. It is a public affront to the values of collaboration, equity, and mutual respect that our theatre community claims to uphold.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The letter went on to insist the remarks are part of a pattern in the theatre industry, which has &#8220;a persistent failure to hold people accountable for violent, disrespectful, or harmful behaviour &#8211; especially when they are powerful or well-known\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Broadway League and American Theatre Wing were encouraged to disinvite LuPone from industry events, including the Tony Awards. <\/p>\n<p>\nThe letter said: \u201cIndividuals, including Patti Lupone, who use their platform to publicly demean, harass, or disparage fellow artists &#8211; particularly with racial, gendered, or otherwise violent language &#8211; should not be welcomed at industry events, including the Tony Awards, fundraisers, and public programmes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nTony winners James Monroe Iglehart, J. Harrison Ghee and Maleah Joi Moon, as well as stage and screen veterans like Ephraim Sykes, Wendell Pierce, and Jaquel Spivey signed the letter. Musician Courtney Love is also among the signatories.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Pagination --><\/p>\n<p><!-- playbuzz --><br \/>\n<!-- end playbuzz--><\/p>\n<p><!-- \n\n<div data-cn-project=\"femalefirst\">\n    \n<\/div>\n\n --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n<!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/500-broadway-artists-sign-open-letter-condemning-patti-lupone-1419691.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>31 May 2025 Over 500 Broadway artists have signed an open letter condemning Patti LuPone. 500 Broadway artists sign open letter condemning Patti LuPone After Patti, 76, hit out at fellow actors Kecia Lewis, who she called a b****, and Audra McDonald, who she said was \u201cnot a friend\u201d in a recent New Yorker interview, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":171671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3375,11571,1642],"class_list":{"0":"post-171670","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-audra-mcdonald","9":"tag-kecia-lewis","10":"tag-patti-lupone"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}