Jeremy O Harris pulls Slave Play from LA theater over its male-dominated season

Playwright says he hopes a female colleague’s work can replace his celebrated drama

The playwright Jeremy O Harris has pulled his popular work Slave Play from a forthcoming run in Los Angeles over the theater group’s lack of representation of female playwrights.

The Tony-nominated work, which explores race, sex and trauma in America, will return to Broadway from November to January, and was then slated for a west coast run at the Mark Taper Forum, operated by the Center Theatre Group, in February before Harris announced on Monday he would “begin the process” of removing it.