American Playwrights Try to Reinvent the History Play – The New Yorker


The New Yorker

American Playwrights Try to Reinvent the History Play
The New Yorker
Oskar Eustis, who runs Shakespeare in the Park and the Public Theatre, told me that he considers “Hamilton,” which he helped to develop, the most successful American version of a Shakespearean history play. Lin-Manuel Miranda “is writing verse drama,” …