In this Aug. 5, 2014 file photo, actress Tonya Pinkins attends the opening night of “King Lear,” in New York. Bertolt Brechts epic play Mother Courage and Her Children may be about the horrors of war, but a new off-Broadway production is revealing real conflict offstage, too. Tony Award-winning actress Pinkins said she will leave the Classic Stage Companys revival on Jan. 5, 2016, claiming the part has been neutered and created through the filter of the white gaze. (Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP, File)