Race-related controversies in theatre

thumb|Othello and Desdemona in Venice by [[Théodore Chassériau, 1850]]

play by Shakespeare set in the Republic of Venice

1971 rock opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber

2015 musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda about Alexander Hamilton

play by Eve Ensler

right|thumbnail|280px|This reproduction of a 1900 William H. West (entertainer)|William H. West [[minstrel show poster, originally published by the Strobridge Lithographing Company, shows the transformation from a person of European descent to a caricature of a dark-skinned person of African descent.]]

play and novel by James Matthew Barrie

1989 stage musical

religious satire musical

1951 musical by the team of composer Richard Rodgers and dramatist Oscar Hammerstein II

1949 musical by Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, and Joshua Logan

character in Shakespeare's Othello; a Moorish soldier in the service of the Venetian Republic, who elopes with Desdemona, murders her, and kills himself

2002 musical with music by Jeanine Tesori

South Korean musical about two abandoned helper robots who fall in love

play written by Ken Ludwig