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Podcast: So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast
Episode: Et tu, hecklers? Howard Sherman on defending the arts
Description: In Shakespeare's 1599 play "Julius Caesar," the title character is warned by a soothsayer to "beware the Ides of March." After protesters attempted to shut down a modernized production of the play in New York's Central Park last month, theater companies may now be warning each other to "beware the ire of hecklers." On today's episode of So to Speak, we speak with Arts Integrity Initiative Director Howard Sherman about the controversy surrounding The Public Theater's production of "Julius Caesar," which captured headlines for portraying Caesar as a costumed Donald Trump (spoiler alert: Caesar gets assassinated). Howard was...