“Texas lawmakers are arguing that audiences should be able to bring deadly weapons into live theatre venues — the same way they bring a ticket or a program. There’s no version of that scenario that feels remotely safe or necessary.”

“A Texas theatre teacher has been charged with a felony for having an inappropriate relationship with a student.”

“A Texas school district is under fire once again, this time over cancelling a planned production of ‘The Laramie Project’ despite the show being approved earlier in the year.”

“It is being reported that a Texas high school has revoked a role in an upcoming production of ‘Oklahoma’ from a trans male student citing a policy that states students can only be cast in roles that were the same gender they were assigned at birth.”

“Last week, the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas filed federal civil rights complaints against a fine arts public charter school in Fort Worth, TX. The complaint was filed on behalf of a family with a transgender and nonbinary child who was banned from joining a prestigious Texas girl’s choir.”

“A Texas elementary school has canceled its field trip to see a production of ‘James & the Giant Peach’ at a local theatre after a parent complained about actors portraying both female and male roles.”

Lin-Manuel Miranda has released a statement on the unauthorized production of ‘Hamilton’ which was performed at a Texas church last weekend. “Grateful to all of you who reached out about this illegal, unauthorized production. Now lawyers do their work,” he said.

“While seeing what the Door McAllen did with ‘Hamilton’ may seem unprecedented, it should be noted that this isn’t the first time they’ve done this. In fact, OnStage Blog has obtained a video of the entire performance of “Disney’s Beauty & the Beast” the church produced in 2018 that featured similar alterations to the script.”

Over the past couple of days, there has been a lot of discussion over the unauthorized performance of ‘Hamilton’ by a church in Texas. Many have been asking what exact changes the church made to the script. While we can’t post the entire video here, we can post some snippets of their edits. So here are some of them.

The team at ‘Hamilton’ have released the following statement regarding the unauthorized production of the show which occurred over the weekend. “Hamilton does not grant amateur or professional licenses for any stage productions and did not grant one to The Door Church.”

A church in McAllen, TX is claiming today that it had permission from the legal team at ‘Hamilton’ to perform Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony-winning show along with additions into the script to illustrate the teachings of Jesus Christ and deliver an anti-LGBTQ sermon at the conclusion of the performance.

“A church in Texas is coming under fire today performing ‘Hamilton’ without obtaining rights to the show as well as changing the text and adding an anti-LGBTQ sermon at the end of the show.”