Students at Mississinewa High School in Gas City, Indiana, were set to take the stage this week for opening night of "Between the Lines," the musical based on a Jodi Picoult book about living "the story you want, even if it's not the story you're in."

But the show was canceled just two weeks before the teenagers were set to perform for their families and friends in what Picoult criticized as an act of censorship.

She said she learned about the cancellation while she was in London for an adapted production of "The Book Thief," a novel about censorship in Nazi Germany.

"It all felt on the nose," Picoult told NBC News.

'We've already lost freedom of expression'

An email sent Oct. 16 to parents by Jeremy Fewell, superintendent of the Mississinewa Community School Corporation, said the sho

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