Stacy Wolf
she/her/hers
Stacy Wolf is Professor of Theater and American Studies and Director of the Program in Music Theater at Princeton University. She is the author of A Problem Like Maria: Gender and Sexuality in the American Musical; Changed for Good: A Feminist History of the Broadway Musical; and is co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of the American Musical. Her new book, Beyond Broadway: The Pleasure and Promise of Musical Theatre Across America, explores how the musical theater repertoire finds new life at local and amateur venues across the country, including summer camps, high schools, community theatres, and afterschool programs. An excerpt from the book, “Out of the Spotlight, Still a Star: The ‘Backstage Diva,'" was published in The New York Times in March 2020. Stacy has also written about Hamilton, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and college student productions of Sondheim’s musicals in the age of #MeToo.
Sessions in which Stacy Wolf participates
- Beyond Broadway: The Pleasure and Promise of Musical Theatre Across America New York Hilton Midtown - Sutton Center Room
- 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM | 1 hour
- Have you participated in high school or community theatre musicals? Join author Stacy Wolf in a lively conversation about the lifeblood of Broadwa...
- Lecture
- Musical Theatre Scholarship in 2020 New York Hilton Midtown - Nassau Room
- 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM | 1 hour
- Join some of the world's most famous and influential musical theatre scholars in a panel discussion. For most of the 20th century, musical theatre ...
- Panel