Come to the Cabaret “Cabaret” was written by Joe Masteroff with music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb. It premiered on Broadway on November 20th, 1966, at the Broadhurst Theatre. The next year it won eight Tony Awards, including, but not limited to, Musical, Best Direction of A Musical, Composer & Lyricist, and Best Choreography. I would like to mention that the script has three different versions: the original 1966 version, which includes songs such as “Why Should I W

The Vagina Monologues was written by Eve Ensler and first premiered as a one-woman show at HERE, an Off-Broadway theater in New York City in 1996. These monologues are based on over 200 interviews of women from a range of different identities. Since its premiere, it has been performed countless times, most notably through V-Day, an organization that “demands that violence against all women, girls, and the Earth must end” (V-Day). The Vagina Monologues is produced annually by

The Laramie Project by Moisés Kaufman and the Members of Tectonic Theatre Project had its premiere at the Denver Center Theatre Company on February 19th, 2000 and transferred to Off-Broadway at the Union Square Theatre on May 18th, 2000. Through interviews with the citizens of the town of Laramie, Wyoming, Kaufman and the team created this show to learn what happened to Matthew Shepard on the night that he died. Throughout the show, it is revealed that Aaron McKinney and Russ

Angels In America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes by Tony Kushner, which I will be referring to as Angels in America from now on, is a play written in two parts: “Millennium Approaches” and “Perestroika”, respectively. The first part of Angels in America had its world premiere at the Eureka Theatre Company in San Francisco, California, in May 1991. At this point, the second part was still being written. The Broadway opening was two years later, with the first part premieri

Suffs The Musical by Shaina Taub was developed at The Public Theatre in 2020, premiered there in 2022 and made its Broadway debut at the Shubert Organization’s Music Box Theatre in 2024. This show was not only notable for telling the story of the suffragette movement, but for casting Jenna Bainbridge as Major Sylvester/ Senator Burn/ Ensemble, making her the first wheelchair user to originate a role in a Broadway musical and the second wheelchair user to appear in a Broadway

Can Art Really Change The World? Art can define cultures and be aesthetically pleasing, but can it create any real-world change? The short answer is yes, through arts activism. “Artistic Activism” is defined by the Center for Artistic Activism as “a dynamic practice combining the creative power of the arts to move us emotionally with the strategic planning of activism necessary to bring about social change.” This paper will explore how the planning of activism is linked with

Can Art Really Change The World?  Sure it can define cultures and be aesthetically pleasing but can it create any real world change? The...

Hi friends! Here is where I will post the academic side of this project! I am currently reading "Theatre, activism, subjectivity:...