Overview

• LuPone discredited Lewis’s Broadway credentials by calling her a “bitch” in a New Yorker profile; she characterized McDonald as “not a friend.”
• Lewis accused LuPone last November of racial microaggression rooted in privilege after LuPone asked for lower sound levels at the Hell’s Kitchen theater.
• Advocates such as Yvette Nicole Brown, Viola Davis and Adrienne Warren condemned LuPone’s remarks on social media.
• Conversations among theater professionals and experts have focused on the impact of racial microaggressions, privilege and workplace decorum on Broadway.
• McDonald told CBS Sunday Mornings she hasn’t spoken with LuPone in over 11 years, expressing confusion about any supposed feud.