Rap's Battle with Theatre
Photos (from left to right) by: Joan Marcus, Marc Brenner, Tristram Kenton/The Guardian. What do Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton, Poet in Da Corner by Debris Stevenson and Jamie Lloyd’s adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac all have in common? Each play incorporates modern rap music. But why is theatre obsessed with rap? Is it purely that productions want to ride the wave of Hamilton’s success? Since opening in 2015, it’s won 11 Tonys, a Pulitzer prize, and its staggering success an
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