2021 Hillman Lecture: Stacy Wolf

Stacy Wolf presents the 2021 Hillman Lecture and discusses her new book Beyond Broadway: The Pleasure and Promise of Musical Theatre Across America. 

Stacy Wolf is one of America’s foremost scholars on musical theater. She is professor of theater at Princeton, director of fellowships, and director of the Program in Music Theater. She is the author of Changed for Good: A Feminist History of the Broadway Musical (Oxford University Press, 2011), A Problem Like Maria: Gender and Sexuality in the American Musical (University of Michigan Press, 2002), and the co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of the American Musical (with Raymond Knapp and Mitchell Morris, 2011). She has published articles on theater spectatorship, performance pedagogy, and musical theater in many journals including Theatre Journal, Modern Drama, and Camera Obscura, and is a former editor of Theatre Topics: A Journal of Pedagogy and Praxis. She also has experience as a director and dramaturg.