Is Patti LuPone Retiring from the Broadway Stage?

Emell Adolphus READ TIME: 1 MIN.

Patti LuPone is DONE with Broadway shows – at least according to her Twitter account.

As reported by Deadline, LuPone shared on social media that she watched her Actors' Equity card "being bandied about."

"No longer part of that circus. Figure it out," wrote LuPone, who may have been referencing a brewing controversy over "Hadestown" star Lillias White reprimanding an audience member from the stage. She apparently mistook an audience member, who was hearing impaired, for recording the show when it fact it was a device they needed to hear.

"When the run of 'Company' ended this past July, I knew I wouldn't be on stage for a very long time," LuPone said in a statement obtained by Deadline. "And at that point I made the decision to resign from Equity."

A spokesperson for LuPone said the actor would have no further comment on the matter.

However, social media has had plenty to say.

"Wha?! This really has gone entirely TOO far!" wrote one social media user. "If not a device for disabled persons! TURN IT OFF. Ugh."

Another social media simply wrote: "Patti, you can't be serious."

Well, she is an actor and they are susceptible to dramatic shows of emotions.Time will tell if LuPone is indeed serious.

LuPone most recently appeared on Broadway in last season's "Company," winning her third Tony Award for the performance. She also famously laid into a maskless audience member at a post-show talkback session.


by Emell Adolphus

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