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List of Latiné and Caribbean Musicals (Post In the Heights)

Wed, 7 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The 2008 premiere of In the Heights marked a significant moment in the history of American musical theatre, generating increased visibility for Latine artists while coinciding with the emergence of a rapidly expanding body of Latine and Caribbean musical theatre. Despite this growth, the field lacks a comprehensive record of its scope, development, and diversity. This project addresses that archival and scholarly gap through a living digital archive documenting more than 400 Latine and Caribbean musicals developed and produced since 2008, including works across the United States, the Caribbean, and the global diaspora. Rather than positioning Latine and Caribbean musical theatre as a discrete or unified genre, the archive conceptualizes it as a transnational and diasporic field shaped by migration, colonial histories, cultural memory, racial formation, and intersecting identities. Entries document artists, development histories, productions, and related contextual information,...

Good Tidings Made Visible: Re-enactments of the Nativity from the Middle Ages to the Present. Lenke Kovács and Francesc Massip, eds. Problemata Literaria 90. Kassel: Edition Reichenberger, 2020. xii + 312 pp. €43.

Sat, 17 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Good Tidings Made Visible: Re-enactments of the Nativity from the Middle Ages to the Present. Lenke Kovács and Francesc Massip, eds. Problemata Literaria 90. Kassel: Edition Reichenberger, 2020. xii + 312 pp. €43.

La Mirtilla

Sat, 17 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

La Mirtilla

Costumes and Repurposing Fabrics across Religious and Theatrical Boundaries in Early Modern Mantua

Sat, 17 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Costumes and Repurposing Fabrics across Religious and Theatrical Boundaries in Early Modern Mantua

The Theatre Couple in Early Modern Italy: Self-Fashioning and Mutual Marketing by Serena Laiena (review)

Thu, 27 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The Theatre Couple in Early Modern Italy: Self-Fashioning and Mutual Marketing by Serena Laiena (review)

“There’s something about the ‘S Word’ …”: acting on our impulses and analysing our actions

Sat, 27 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000

“There’s something about the ‘S Word’ …”: acting on our impulses and analysing our actions

This side of reality: Stanislavsky in the 21st Century

Sat, 27 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000

This side of reality: Stanislavsky in the 21st Century

Shakespeare & Company – merging the Bard with the Russian via two female Brits

Sat, 27 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Shakespeare & Company – merging the Bard with the Russian via two female Brits

Feeling Yellow: Responding to Contemporary Yellowface in Musical Performance

Tue, 26 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Feeling Yellow: Responding to Contemporary Yellowface in Musical Performance

Being in “The Room Where it Happens”: Hamilton, Obama, and Nationalist Neoliberal Multicultural Inclusion

Tue, 26 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000

The two white male cosponsors, a Democrat and a Republican, dressed as King George and Hamilton, respectively, as they rapped the resolution in the state senate. InHamilton, chief creator Lin-Manuel Miranda stakes out space for an immigrant from the Caribbean who was in the room where the United States of America was founded. Based on Ron Chernow's biography,Hamiltonfollows the struggles and successes of Alexander Hamilton in a story largely told by his nemesis, Aaron Burr. The musical opened Off-Broadway at the Public Theater in 2015 and subsequently moved to Broadway. With its Founders Chic historical approach, hip-hop aesthetic, and multiracial cast, this Broadway blockbuster has earned substantial commercial and critical acclaim from across the political spectrum. Former President Barack Obama joked, “Hamilton, I'm pretty sure, is the only thing Dick Cheney and I agree on.”

Performance as Exchange: Taxation and Jewish Theatre in Early Modern Italy

Tue, 28 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000

In early modern Italy, an unusual form of exchange between Jewish and Christian communities materialized in Mantua: Jews in Mantua were required to perform an annual play as a tribute to their Gonzaga rulers. Elsewhere in the Italian peninsula, far more onerous performances were extorted from the Jews during carnival, but in the Mantuan performances, several communities - the ruling Gonzaga family, the Jewish community, and Christian audience members - interacted. I consider these performances a form of taxation because the full cost, which was extensive, was borne by the Jewish community. However, the performances were more than mere payment; they also gave the Jewish community a degree of autonomy and expression and enabled performers to develop their artistic skills, albeit always as the members of the company of the Jews, a group that was set apart from the rest of society in early modern Mantua. These theatrical performances can be seen as a public reification of the Jewish...

Redefining America, Arena Stage, and Territory Folks in a Multiracial Oklahoma!

Tue, 19 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Redefining America, Arena Stage, and Territory Folks in a Multiracial Oklahoma!