Sunday, August 20, 2017

As 'Hamilton' Opens In Los Angeles, What Does It Mean Now?

It means the same thing it did before, only more so: "With a cast far more racially mixed than the European-descended men who penned the Constitution, the play’s power is that promises of equality made in the 1700s should never be forsaken. The American dream, the play suggests, belongs to all, not to the resentful and narrow vernaculars reverberating through red and blue state battles."



Article source here:Arts Journal

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