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Color-brave casting: A Black Gatsby at the Attucks

Cast aside all preconceptions. Call it color-brave, color-conscious or color-blind casting (the last term now eschewed by theater professionals), seeing Jay Gatsby played by a Black actor alters and enhances our understanding of this classic, and, more importantly, the way we dream our American Dream. This cannot happen, of course, if one is an unthinking purist, like the obnoxious Tom Buchanan in the play.

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