Essay From My College Years
"Rise Up: Why Political Theatre Belongs on Broadway" The correlation between theater and politics is an extremely vital and longstanding one. However, in the history of mainstream musical theater, this development was more nuanced and gradual, despite political theater being the norm in the realms of experimental theatre, as evidenced by the lengthy run of shows such as Avenue Q. Although esteemed artists such as Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein created musicals with emb