![]() ![]() Reed followed this with a second critique for the magazine in April 2016, titled " Hamilton and the Negro Whisperers: Miranda's Consumer Fraud." Reed likened the casting of a Black actor in the role of George Washington to a scenario where Jewish actors would portray Nazi officials Joseph Goebbels, Adolf Eichmann, and Adolf Hitler. and It's Not Halloween." In it he accused Lin-Manuel Miranda of whitewashing Alexander Hamilton's role as a slave owner and his involvement in the genocide of Native Americans. Reed wrote a critique of the musical Hamilton shortly after its debut for the August 2015 edition of the magazine CounterPunch, titled " Hamilton: the Musical: Black Actors Dress Up like Slave Traders. The Haunting received mixed reviews from critics. ![]() Reed debuted the play in January 2019 with a four-night reading at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, and the play was fully staged in May 2019 and ran for several weeks in the same location. ![]() The play echoes many critiques made by historians, such as the whitewashing of Alexander Hamilton. It critiques the acclaimed historical musical Hamilton (2015) through a depiction of a fictionalized version of Hamilton 's creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, who is visited by several historical figures missing from the musical in a style similar to Charles Dickens' 1843 novella A Christmas Carol. The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda is a play by American writer Ishmael Reed. ![]()
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