Here's Frank Rich's additional commentary on the issue. I think he nails it. As most of you probably know but perhaps not all, Rich was NY Times theater critic for many years (and is a fanatical theater buff) but has since gone on to be a cultural and political columnist, first for the Times and currently for New York Magazine. "I am on record as having had mixed feelings about the musical "Big River," which I described as "a mixture of the modestly engaging and the tolerably bland" when it first opened on Broadway in 1985. I have not seen the Encores revival running this weekend but, really, the last half of the Times review, which questions the wisdom of producing a show that is nothing if not faithful to "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," is the kind of politically correct dogma that liberals too should find embarrassing, particularly in these Trump times. Yes, Mark Twain has always been "ill-timed" and an "awkward fit" for smug and humorless Americans. That's the whole point." Steve Hoffman, Takoma Park On 2/15/2017 4:31 PM, Tracy Wuster wrote: > Passing along from humor scholar Pete Kunze: > > Twain is alive and raisin' hell on Broadway: > > http://www.playbill.com/article/ny-times-responds-to- > producers-complaint-about-big-river-review >