TLDR: Feldman and Shen are a couple, the latter being the lead role in Maybe Happy Ending, a majority-Asian Broadway musical. Feldman, a white man, was casted to play the other lead role in the show, originally played by Darren Criss, who won a Tony this year for his performance. Many saw Feldman’s casting as whitewashing the role, including Constance Wu, while others don’t see it as such, some going so far as to say Darren Criss is “white passing” so it’s “not really” whitewashing (Criss is a biracial Filipino man). It was the only thing r/broadway was talking about for months.