If it is just an audience you want, Ms. Weiss, strip-down Dukoupil, give him skates and a hockey stick, and broadcast from an ice arena.

There’s a lot happening in the world right now and what one young, privileged, and I will acknowledge gifted, actor says is not of great consequence, in of itself. But the thing is the performing arts are under attack in this country.

We define us. We are broader than a flag. We cannot be raised and lowered at the whim of anyone.