A middle school in Manhattan has canceled its production of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice after some parents expressed concern over anti-Semitic themes and whether the material is appropriate for middle schoolers. The play was set to be performed by the seventh-grade drama students at 75 Morton, a popular middle school in Greenwich Village, but scrapped last month by the first-year principal without any warning. School sources told the there was a divide between parents at the school, with some calling for the play's cancelation and others wanting to open a dialogue about the themes of the play.
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