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PHOTO BY COLLEEN OSBORNE ‘12
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Broadway Bound
HAPPENING . . .
December 4–January 25
Form in Space
For Joe Shosh, associate professor of education, the play’s the thing to capture student imagination
and hone writing skills. “Broadway and Beyond: New York City Plays, Players, and Playwrights”
(Writing 100) takes students to the nation’s theater capital to experience a range of productions
on and off Broadway. The class play list includes the Tony award-winning In the Heights,
[Title of Show], A Man for All Seasons, and Equus. Many of the performances deal with issues
related to personal and cultural identity, providing students with plenty of material for journals,
blogs, critiques, and essays.
Beyond Broadway, students visit less familiar (though no less dramatic) venues, such as the
Lower East Side Tenement Museum. Part of Learning In Common, “the course is the outgrowth of
my research into written composition and authentic learning,” said Professor Shosh, whose interest
in theater began when he was an undergraduate English and theater arts major at Moravian.
Read the Writing 100 student blogs at MoravianBroadwayNYC.blogspot.com.
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4 MORAVIAN COLLEGE MAGAZINE FALL 2008
COURTESY OF THE MORAVIAN ARCHIVES