With a storied stage and display screen profession behind him, Harvey Fierstein is denouncing Donald Trump‘s takeover of the Kennedy Middle.
The 4x Tony winner, who has starred in a number of Kennedy Middle productions through the years, known as out the Trump administration with an impassioned assertion on Instagram after greater than 20 reveals have been canceled or postponed.
“A number of of us have written to ask how I really feel about Trump’s takeover of The Kennedy Middle. How do you assume I really feel?” wrote Fierstein within the submit. “The reveals I’ve written at the moment are banned from being carried out in our premiere American theater. These reveals, most of which have been carried out there prior to now, embody, KINKY BOOTS, LA CAGE AUX FOLLES, TORCH SONG TRILOGY, HAIRSPRAY, SAFE SEX, CASA VALENTINA, SPOOKHOUSE, A CATERED AFFAIR, THE SISSY DUCKLING, BELLA BELLA and extra.
“I’ve been within the battle for our civil rights for greater than 50 years solely to look at them snatched away by a person who really couldn’t care much less. He does these items solely to placate the spiritual proper in order that they’ll look the opposite means as he savages our political system for his personal glorification,” he continued.
Fierstein mentioned of Trump, “He assaults free speech. He assaults the free press. He assaults America’s allies. His solely allegiance is to himself – the golden calf. My fellow Individuals I warn you – that is NOT the way it begins. That is how freedom ENDS! Trump could have declared ‘woke’ as useless in America. We should show him mistaken. WAKE THE HELL UP!!!!!”
Fierstein’s assertion comes as Trump visited the Kennedy Middle this week, following his appointment because the Middle’s new chairman after he ousted half the group’s board members, who have been nominated by Joe Biden.
Since Trump took over, Shonda Rhimes has resigned from the board of the Kennedy Middle, and Issa Rae has canceled a present scheduled for the venue. In the meantime, Trump has confronted backlash from supporters of the Kennedy Middle’s canceled touring youngsters’s musical Finn.
Trump beforehand threatened to make the Kennedy Middle “GREAT AGAIN,” saying his plan final month to take away these “who don’t share our Imaginative and prescient for a Golden Age in Arts and Tradition.”
“We’ll quickly announce a brand new Board, with a tremendous Chairman, DONALD J. TRUMP!” he added. “Simply final 12 months, the Kennedy Middle featured Drag Reveals particularly focusing on our youth — THIS WILL STOP. The Kennedy Middle is an American Jewel, and should replicate the brightest STARS on its stage from all throughout our Nation. For the Kennedy Middle, THE BEST IS YET TO COME!”
