New play inspired by "Buster-gate"

Dusty and the Big Bad World, a play by Cusi Cram, writer for the PBS Kids series Arthur, opened last night in Denver. The satire, billed as "a wildly humorous story about bigotry and the censorship of 'Dusty,' a public television children's series about a dust ball," was inspired by Cram's experience with "Buster-gate," the national controversy about a segment of the Arthur spinoff Postcards from Buster that featured a girl in Vermont with two gay moms. PBS dropped the episode but many stations still aired it. In the play, the magic dust ball is caught between liberal and conservative forces and his pubTV producer has to choose between sacrificing her principles and keeping the show on the air.