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Studies in Musical Theatre 17.3 is out now! Special Issue
Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Studies in Musical Theatre 17.3 is out now! Special Issue

Intellect is pleased to announce that Studies in Musical Theatre 17.3 is out now!

 

Special Issue: ‘Sondheim from the Side’

 

This Special Issue on the late influential American composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim focuses on the reception experience of minoritarian artists and critics to his body of work.

 

For more information about the journal and issue click here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/studies-in-musical-theatre

 

Aims & Scope

 

Studies in Musical Theatre provides a forum to debate a wide range of texts that articulate the musical together with the theatrical. This peer-reviewed journal brings together a variety of critical approaches to contribute to the discussion surrounding live performance, the development and form of musical theatre and its value as a cultural product in theory and practice. Here, you will find a wealth of writing encompassing everything from opera to film musical to pop video.

 

This title is indexed with Scopus and the Web of Science’s Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI).

 

Issue 17.3

 

Articles

 

Sondheim from the Side

JACK ISAAC PRYOR AND STACY WOLF

 

Sondheim’s generative geniality

HARVEY YOUNG

 

Sondheim’s vamps and Africanist musical practice

MASI ASARE

 

Making broken things seem whole: A family’s conversation about Into the Woods

RAYMOND KNAPP, RACHEL KNAPP AND ZELDA KNAPP

 

Queer Sundays

PATRICK ANDERSON

 

‘Side by Side by Side’, in the street

ROSZA DANIEL LANG/LEVITSKY

 

Interview

 

Still ‘queer for Uncle Sam’?: Anita’s Latina diva citizenship in West Side Story, revisited – an interview with Deborah Paredez

JACK ISAAC PRYOR

 

Articles

 

‘When you’ve got friends like mine’: Company as tragedy and the queer potentiality of friendship

ASHLEY M. PRIBYL

 

If it happened, he was there

KIM VARHOLA

 

‘I’m the witch, you’re the world’: Monstrosity and ‘Othering’ in Into the Woods

DESTINY SALTER

 

‘Now you know’: On Sondheim and middle age

RYAN DONOVAN

 

Encountering Road Show

JANE COX

 

‘Anyone can whistle’ Sondheim: The intellectual autobiography of a Sondheim studies scholar

ERIC M. GLOVER

 

‘Beauty is power, longing a disease’: Asexuality and disability readings of Passion

SARAH COURTIS

 

‘A Weekend in the [Texas Hill] Country’ and Sondheim’s invitation to play

PAUL BONIN-RODRIGUEZ AND ZACHARY A. DORSEY

 

Jewish summer camp theatre and Sondheim, the Talmudic scholar

JONAH GREENE

 

Worthy of your love: Queerness and ghosting in Assassins and Company

BESS ROWEN

 

Interview

 

An interview with John Doyle

STACY WOLF

 

Articles

 

Sondheim at the disco

JORDAN SCHILDCROUT

 

In my life, it was a good thing

SARAH MYERS

 

Kaddish for Steve: On the Jewishness of Sondheim

GABRIELLE HOYT