Our company recognized the modern mythology of this story (set in 1692, written in 1953, and constantly invoked in 2019) and reckoned with how it impacts us, as high school students in Houston over three hundred years after Salem.

Theatre is political. In 1930s Berlin, cabaret performances opened political discussion and sexual expression in an otherwise restrictive environment. In 2017 America, Cabaret the musical provides a performing arts high school the opportunity to discuss the horror of systematic genocide. Theatre gives voice to controversy and an ear to hardship. In choosing Cabaret as the mainstage show this season, the HSPVA Theatre Department seized a platform to confront today’s evils through the lens of yesterday.