Tag: Broadway
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Arts & Culture
Turning spotlight on Broadway’s representation problem
This class closely examines who is cast for what role in film and theater, as well as how cultural identity is portrayed.
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Arts & Culture
The Sondheim he remembers: genius, friend, board game geek
Harvard grad John Weidman collaborated with theater giant on “Pacific Overtures,” “Assassins,” and “Road Show.”
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Arts & Culture
Even in ‘Hamilton,’ a glimpse of mediocrity
New research by Derek Miller, an assistant professor of English, highlights the starring role of “decidedly average” in the history of art.
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Arts & Culture
Correcting ‘Hamilton’
Historian Annette Gordon-Reed outlined disparities between “Hamilton” the sensation and Hamilton the man in a student-sponsored talk.
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Arts & Culture
In 1944, Broadway subversion
In 1944, the young and gifted creators of ‘On the Town’ quietly stirred diversity into their groundbreaking musical, Professor Carol Oja recounts in her new book.
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Arts & Culture
The making of a musical
With a show on Broadway, artist-in-residence Jason Robert Brown explains his craft.
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Arts & Culture
Direct from Broadway
The Broadway star Christine Ebersole shared her advice and some tricks of the trade with three undergraduates during a master class sponsored by Harvard’s Office for the Arts.
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Arts & Culture
An explosion of creativity
The American Repertory Theater concludes its inventive first year under Diane Paulus with the premiere of the musical “Johnny Baseball.”