In 2017, the year of United dragging customers off of airplanes and Pepsi putting out comically tone-deaf ads, you’d think that corporate America would know better by now than to screw-up where a screw-up is so completely and totally avoidable.
Of course, you’d be wrong.
On Sunday, Delta and Bank of America pulled their sponsorships from New York City’s Shakespeare in the Park, which is hosted by The Public Theater—the same theater that brought blockbuster musical Hamilton to the world—which has been putting on Shakespeare plays in Central Park since the early ’60s. The reason?
Julius Caesar, the current Shakespeare in the Park show, which portrays the titular character in a blonde wig and with a fondness for very long, large ties. Spoiler alert, for anyone not familiar with history everyone’s familiar with: Caesar’s murdered in the end. And the artistic choice to make him resemble Donald Trump drew immediate ire from online conservatives (including Donald Trump Jr.) and subsequently, Delta and Bank of America pulled their funding for The Public Theater. Read more…
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