It's Thursday and that means Midday theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck joins us to spotlight one of the region's thespian offerings. Today, she talks with Midday senior producer and guest host Rob Sivak about "The Cradle Will Rock," a 1937 "play in music" written by the late Marc Blitzstein that's getting a spirited revival by Iron Crow Theatre, at the Theatre Project, now until Sunday, October 8th.
Blitzstein’s pro-union, anti-capitalist musical was the first ever shut down by the federal government. It's an allegorical but in-your-face indictment of capitalism and socio-political corruption -- too-familiar themes in today's headlines. Even as it attacks the wealthy class and the political power it unjustly wields, it also pays homage to the oppressed and the poor, and those struggling to survive. Brechtian in its bold scope and style, The Cradle Will Rock is considered by many critics to be one of the most historically significant works in American theater.
The Cradle Will Rock revival by Iron Crow Theatre continues at The Theatre Project until Sunday, October 8th.
