“Just hours before the curtain was to go up” last night, Shorewood High School (Wisconsin) “canceled its production of To Kill a Mockingbird in response to a planned protest over its use of the n-word,” reports the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Atticus Finch, played by Gregory Peck, faces a hostile crowd in To Kill a Mockingbird. “We’ve concluded that the safest option is to cancel the play,” said Superintendent Bryan Davis in a statement. Shorewood is an affluent suburb of Mil

Rise, NBC’s new high school drama, premieres tonight at 10 Eastern. It’s Friday Night Lights meets Glee, writes Ed Week‘s Mark Walsh. A high school teacher in a small, Rust Belt town takes over the drama program and changes the school musical from Grease to Spring Awakening. The principal is not pleased because “Spring Awakening” includes themes of suicide, teen sex and pregnancy, abortion, homosexuality, and obscenities. He orders a production of “The Pirates of Penzance,” b