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THEATER
The American musical theater began as a lighthearted and celebratory enterprise, but there have always been darker strains as well. Musicals have occasionally embraced social criticism, as well as tales of love gone wrong. As far back as 1927, Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein's Show Boat broached the indelicate subject of racial prejudice, a theme recapitulated...
The Tricky Art of the Dark Musical
By JULIA M. KLEINThe American musical theater began as a lighthearted and celebratory enterprise, but there have always been darker strains as well. Musicals have occasionally embraced social criticism, as well as tales of love gone wrong. As far back as 1927, Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein's Show Boat broached the indelicate subject of racial prejudice, a theme recapitulated...
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