The Broadway revival of the Tony-winning “1776” is best as a fascinating history lesson, and at its most dragging when the mostly-not-all unmemorable songs take us away from that. Senior Editor and ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Playing the radiant Martha Jefferson will be Nikki Renne Daniels, whose extensive ...

The classic musical 1776 has been given a revolutionary new production on Broadway. Instead of telling the story of the founding of America as this musical is usually performed, with a cast of ...

n election year is always a fine time to revive plays and musicals about American politics. With the runaway popularity of “Hamilton” on Broadway, it makes sense that theaters might take a special ...

It may be called 1776, but this Broadway revival has a predominant tang of its 1969 origin. Sprawling, bawdy, and ranging in the spirit of that era, and with a book (by Peter Stone) that is far more ...