F220.  The World Turned Upside Down: Hamilton, An American Musical.  (Judith Baumel, Jacqueline Jones LaMon, Victorio Reyes, Stephen O'Connor) The smash Broadway hit Hamilton has been rightly called a game changer. Borrowing from Charles Chesnutt, Lin-Manuel Miranda uses the world turned upside down as an image for the revolution, reversal, and subversion of political and artistic norms. Here, in the capital city, which Hamilton envisioned, Martha Southgate will introduce poets, fiction writers, and playwrights who discuss what’s new and what’s old in the show—its hip-hop poetics, music/ lyric sampling, imagery, narrative, staging, and more.

Room 102B: Washington Convention Center, Level One