Exploring an Anti-Policing Theatre

HowlRound Theatre Commons: On 18 April 2018, I saw Hamilton at the Fox Theatre in St. Louis, Missouri. I began crying about ten minutes in, sometime in between “Aaron Burr, Sir” and “My Shot.” While Hamilton received a lot of praise for its integration of hip-hop in the Broadway repertoire, I silently cried in my red velvet seat because Black and Brown folx rapped about a revolution, albeit from a settler’s perspective, around a large, circular table.