Professor, Educator, Musical theatre historian and fan
Stacy Wolf teaches seminars on gender and race in the American musical, including a class on the musicals of Stephen Sondheim. In summer 2024, she co-taught a Princeton Global Seminar, “Musical Theatre and Storytelling in Italy,” with Cara Reichel ’96 and Pete Mills ’95, in Gesualdo, Italy. Wolf is the author of “A Problem Like Maria: Gender and Sexuality in the American Musical” (2002); “Changed for Good: A Feminist History of the Broadway Musical” (2011); and “Beyond Broadway: The Pleasure and Promise of Musical Theatre Across America,” which was a finalist for the Association for Theatre in Higher Education’s 2020 Outstanding Book Award. She co-edited “The Oxford Handbook of the American Musical” and “Sondheim from the Side,” a special issue of Studies in Musical Theatre that brings together personal reflections on Sondheim’s musicals by women, queers, Jews, people of color and others. Wolf has published articles on “Hamilton” and on college student productions of Sondheim’s musicals in the age of #MeToo. Her current research projects include an article about the composer Jeanine Tesori and a book, “Feminist Approaches to Musical Theatre,” which she is co-writing with Paige Allen ’21.