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 ...

1776 — The Musical marches into Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia for a spirited spring run April 23–May 30, 2026. Set in the heat of the Continental Congress, the Tony-winning show re-creates the ...

Diane Paulus has a confession. As artistic director of Cambridge’s American Repertory Theater, she’s steeped in the history of the American musical, teaching a class on the genre at Harvard and ...

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 ...

1776 – The Musical returns to its historical roots when the Tony-winning show opens at Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia on April 18, 2026. Set a stone’s throw from Independence Hall, the ...

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 ...

Near the start of the Roundabout Theatre Company‘s Broadway revival of the musical 1776, a cast made entirely of actors who identify as female, transgender and nonbinary, with multiple representations ...