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The final two phases for the latest edition of the 1776 Challenge Cup are set. In a shift, the competition is culminating next year in D.C. That’s a change from original plans that had the finals as ...

THE COMING AMERICAN REVOLUTION— George Soule—Macmillan ($2.50). To most U. S. citizens, who refuse to think back to 1776, Revolution is unAmerican, unethical and downright unpatriotic. In the zoo of ...

Everything in theater comes back to "Hamilton," at least this year. So no chance that "1776" -- another Broadway musical about the founding fathers, although with noticeably less hip-hop than 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 ...

Crisis after crisis, politics everywhere and no clear-cut answers. Sound familiar? So it is now; and so it was then, May through July, 1776, when the Second Continental Congress met in Philadelphia to ...

The company of this production of 1776 is multi-racial and trans, female and nonbinary. The classic musical 1776 has been given a revolutionary new production on Broadway. Instead of telling the story ...

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 ...