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Stacy Wolf

she/her/hers

Director
Program in Music Theater at Princeton University
Participates in 2 items

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

Friday 24 January, 2020

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
1:45 PM
1:45 PM

New York Hilton Midtown - Sutton Center Room

Lecture

Stacy Wolf, Program in Music Theater at Princeton University (Participant)

Have you participated in high school or community theatre musicals? Join author Stacy Wolf in a lively conversation about the lifeblood of Broadwa...

Sunday 26 January, 2020

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
1:45 PM
1:45 PM
Musical Theatre Scholarship in 2020
1 hour, 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM

New York Hilton Midtown - Nassau Room

Panel

Norman Hirschy, Oxford University Press (Participant)

Doug Reside, New York Public Library (Moderator)

Liza Gennaro, Manhattan School of Music (Participant)

Stacy Wolf, Program in Music Theater at Princeton University (Participant)

Elizabeth Wollman, Baruch College (Participant)

Mary Jo Lodge, Lafayette College (Participant)

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 ...