When the Tony-winning musical "1776" debuted on Broadway in 1969, it celebrated America's ideals on the eve of its Bicentennial. Half a century later, a radical makeover brings critique front and center, while treating those ideals as a chimera rather than a promise fulfilled. The production's pre-Broadway tryout at American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Mass., […]
SOURCE: Variety at 07:00AM on June 6, 2022