1776: Movie Review
BY GREG GORMAN In the hot and humid city of Philadelphia, representatives from 13 colonies met to debate the risks and benefits of declaring independence from the mother country of Great Britain, something that had never been done before at the time. This is the core of “1776”, a musical produced for the stage in …...
Freud, Faith and Tarot in Nightmare Alley: Further Thoughts with Jonathan Brielle
BY G. CONNOR SALTER In a previous article, Jonathan Brielle shared his journey adapting Nightmare Alley from the original novel. The following contains his reflections on Freudian analysis, the tarot, and other subjects that couldn’t be included in that article for space reasons. A combined version of this interview, including...
Nightmare Alley the Musical: Interview with Jonathan Brielle
BY G. CONNOR SALTER A revised version of this interview, including footnotes to explain references and new research, can be found in The Other Inklings: Interviews with Scholars on C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, Owen Barfield, and Inklings-Adjacent Figures (Apocryphile Press, 2026). According to Nick Tosches, from the moment that...
‘Passionately Smashin’ Every Expectation’: A Review of Miranda’s Hamilton
In early 2015, a new show opened Off-Broadway at The Public: a hip-hop musical about American founding father Alexander Hamilton
