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St. Melissa

Just back from seeing the Broadway musical production of Green Day’s American Idiot for the third time in three weeks, this time with Melissa Etheridge in the role of the drug dealer and possible...

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Etheridge Update

Melissa Etheridge concluded her run as St. Jimmy in American Idiot tonight. Here’s an audience video of her final encore: And I’m happy to report that I got my wish. The MP3 from her first night — and...

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Saved by Angels?

We’re closing in on the end of our Writing New York semester with some texts that explore utopian and dystopian elements of New York City at the end of the 20th century and start of the 21st. When we...

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Kushner, Cosmopolitanism, and U.S. Emergent Literatures

Two years ago, I wrote a post here, entitled “The Cosmopolitan and the Provincial,” about using the idea of fallibilism to think about Kushner’s two-part play, Angels in America (1992-95). Today, I’d...

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Wrestling with Roy

As we wrap up our discussion of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America in today’s Writing New York lecture, we’ll be talking in part about what Kushner gets out of incorporating historical figures such as...

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The city on stage

Cyrus’s discussion of Irving’s History over the last week or so lays the foundation for one of the big trajectories we trace in Writing New York: the idea of constructed histories — the literariness...

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Q&A with Metropolitan Playhouse’s Alex Roe on The Contrast

Two seasons ago our friends at the Metropolitan Playhouse put on a fantastic staging of Royall Tyler’s The Contrast (1787). At the time I wrote a couple posts about it. Since we’re spending a week with...

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Q&A with Cynthia Kierner: Tyler’s The Contrast

Following on yesterday’s Q&A with Alex Roe, who directed The Contrast for the Metropolitan Playhouse in 2009, today we’re happy to host a Q&A with Professor Cynthia Kierner of George Mason...

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Fashionable Mowatt

In the epilogue to Anna Cora Mowatt’s comedy Fashion (1845) — modeled, as Edgar Allan Poe pointed out in an early review, on Sheridan’s plays — one character expresses her hope that Fashion will become...

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The Bowery B’hoy

Today’s reading for vWNY is Benjamin Baker’s 1848 play A Glance at New York, best known for introducing NYC’s homegrown folk hero, Mose the Bowery B’hoy, to the American stage. The full text doesn’t...

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St. Melissa

Just back from seeing the Broadway musical production of Green Day’s American Idiot for the third time in three weeks, this time with Melissa Etheridge in the role of the drug dealer and possible...

View Article

Etheridge Update

Melissa Etheridge concluded her run as St. Jimmy in American Idiot tonight. Here’s an audience video of her final encore: And I’m happy to report that I got my wish. The MP3 from her first night — and...

View Article

Saved by Angels?

We’re closing in on the end of our Writing New York semester with some texts that explore utopian and dystopian elements of New York City at the end of the 20th century and start of the 21st. When we...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Kushner, Cosmopolitanism, and U.S. Emergent Literatures

Two years ago, I wrote a post here, entitled “The Cosmopolitan and the Provincial,” about using the idea of fallibilism to think about Kushner’s two-part play, Angels in America (1992-95). Today, I’d...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Wrestling with Roy

As we wrap up our discussion of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America in today’s Writing New York lecture, we’ll be talking in part about what Kushner gets out of incorporating historical figures such as...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

The City on Stage

Cyrus’s discussion of Irving’s History over the last week or so lays the foundation for one of the big trajectories we trace in Writing New York: the idea of constructed histories — the literariness...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Q&A with Metropolitan Playhouse’s Alex Roe on The Contrast

Two seasons ago our friends at the Metropolitan Playhouse put on a fantastic staging of Royall Tyler’s The Contrast (1787). At the time I wrote a couple posts about it. Since we’re spending a week...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Q&A with Cynthia Kierner: Tyler’s The Contrast

Following on yesterday’s Q&A with Alex Roe, who directed The Contrast for the Metropolitan Playhouse in 2009, today we’re happy to host a Q&A with Professor Cynthia Kierner of George Mason...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Fashionable Mowatt

In the epilogue to Anna Cora Mowatt’s comedy Fashion (1845) — modeled, as Edgar Allan Poe pointed out in an early review, on Sheridan’s plays — one character expresses her hope that Fashion will become...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

The Bowery B’hoy

Today’s reading for vWNY is Benjamin Baker’s 1848 play A Glance at New York, best known for introducing NYC’s homegrown folk hero, Mose the Bowery B’hoy, to the American stage. The full text doesn’t...

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