Allegiance

The musical Allegiance is a new addition to the body of Japanese American arts centering on the incarceration experience, made distinct by its extreme temporal displacement, its targeting of a mainstream audience, and its supertextual use of swing music culture. Swing music and …

Musical theater has historically been a venue for Americans to come to terms with our past and present on both a national and an individual level as it stages and restages war mythology on the Broadway Stage. As the nation has won, lost, and abandoned foreign conflicts, the conn…