January 27, 2006

At Adelphi, a Theater Course Explores Radical Cabaret

By PAULA WASLEY

"Cabaret Theater," Adelphi University

Life is a cabaret, old chum, as any of Maggie Lally's students can tell you. Each spring the assistant professor of theater teaches an upper-level workshop in which students try their hand at the genre made famous by Brecht, Wedekind, and Weill.

The course has its roots in Ms. Lally's own undergraduate experience at Adelphi, where she (and her classmate Jonathan Larson, creator of Rent) took a course on

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