Tony Award winner Tonya Pinkins, who announced she will depart the Classic Stage Company production of Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children Jan. 5, 2016, while the show is still in previews, is leaving her role because she believes the part has been "neutered" and conceived through "the filter of the white gaze," according to the Associated Press.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:41PM on December 30, 2015