Theater West End presents the musical “Jesus Christ Superstar” in a production designed as a call to action in modern times.

Cynthia Erivo laughed it off when people said it was "blasphemy" to cast her as Jesus Christ in an upcoming musical production in L.A.

Cynthia Erivo’s reaction to critics of her “Jesus Christ Superstar” casting is simply divine. Asked about the outcry over tapping a queer, Black woman to play the musical’s Messiah, she told Billboard,