Theater Talk: "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson"

Writer/director Alex Timbers and composer Michael Friedman discuss "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson," their "emo" musical about the 7th President of the US. Also, UK critic Mark Shenton and London's notorious West End Whingers review Broadway's latest fare.
Theater Talk is a series devoted to the world of the stage. It began on New York television in 1993 and is co-hosted by Michael Riedel (Broadway columnist for the New York Post) and series producer Susan Haskins.
The program is one of the few independent productions on PBS and now airs weekly on Thirteen/WNET in New York and WGBH in Boston. Now, CUNY TV offers New York City viewers additional opportunities to catch each week's show. (Of course, Theater Talk is no stranger to CUNY TV, since the show is taped here each week before its first airing on Thirteen/WNET.)
The series is produced by Theater Talk Productions, a not-for-profit corporation and is funded by contributions from private foundations and individuals, as well as The New York State Council on the Arts.
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[@ComradeChristov]

Left Coast playwrites are the last people I want handling my history. Jackson's closure of the Second Bank of the United States followed several severe boom-bust cycles, and crippling inflation thanks to SBUS. It is a sad world we live in that activist historians wage war on good economic sense from the top of their ivory towers, dismissing it as "paranoia." These two artists are part of the problem, not the solution.
And history books haven't taught American kids to "grow up thinking Andrew Jackson was a big hero" since before the Progressive era, which by the way, DIDN'T start with Obama or Clinton, it started with Wilson. That's right, Leftism is nothing new, so don't kid yourself thinking we just now "opened our eyes" to how "terrible" Jackson was. The fact is academia has been a left-wing monopoly since your great-grandpappy's day. Again, don't kid yourself.
Show me one piece of libertarian theatre, and I'll stop considering showbiz a lefty mutual circle-jerk club. Prove me wrong.

[@barbiecrocker7420]

A decade later and I say
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