Viewers will see some differences in this adaptation of “Peter Pan” — written by Larissa FastHorse and directed by Emmy Award ...

“I had avoided ‘Peter Pan’ for so long,” she says ... “It was important to me to make the women more positive female role models, and give them the chance to dance and fight and sing.

M. Barrie’s 1904 play, Disney’s 1953 animated film, or the 1954 Broadway musical, “Peter Pan” stories too often included cruel and cliched depictions of both Native peoples and women.