Irene Dash, Ph.D., a professor at Hunter College and author of Wooing, Wedding and Power: Women in Shakespeare’s Plays and Shakespeare and the American Musical, will speak about the many Jewish voices that emerge as adaptors of Shakespeare created new American musicals for our time.

Her most recent book focuses on five productions from 1938 through 1971–The Boys from Syracuse (The Comedy of Errors), Kiss Me, Kate (The Taming of the Shrew), West Side Story (Romeo and Juliet), Your Own Thing (Twelfth Night), and Two Gentlemen of Verona.