Dahlia Al-Habieli is a scenic designer, visual designer and instructor currently based in Winston Salem, North Carolina. Born and raised in Abu-Dhabi, Dahlia has credited the city for fostering her love of storytelling and focused her work on building connections between languages, cultures and genders. She has won numerous awards for her work including the Independent […]Read Post ›
Tucked behind the marble halls of Harvard Medical School academic buildings, stands an austere, Brutalist building-the library. While it may seem obvious Countway Medical Library contains many books and manuscripts from centuries past, what is less obvious is that it is a repository for art as well. As you enter, the severe and dimly-lit foyer […]Read Post ›
Alexander Hamilton’s life story, for all its drama, was always an unlikely source for a smash hit on Broadway. Hamilton favored rule by the elite in an already elitist society. He was adulterous, impulsive and privileged. But Lin-Manuel Miranda, like many musical theatre composers before him, saw in this unlikely source the chance to reform […]Read Post ›
Lin-Manuel Miranda was first introduced to the Schuyler sisters while on vacation.
“We are living in the age of Hamilton,” admitted Annette Gordon-Reed at a recent book talk. Reed’s comment is surprising: she’s a leading scholar on Thomas Jefferson, Hamilton’s rival. But her praise is not; nowadays, everyone loves Hamilton.
