The Art of Musical Theatre: From Michigan to Broadway
Go behind the scenes of the nation’s top-ranked musical theatre program. Department Chair Cynthia Kortman Westphal shares stories from Broadway, offers an inside look at how UM prepares the next generation of artists, and explores why live performance remains one of our most powerful forms of human connection.
Professor Kortman Westphal is the Chair of Musical Theatre and the Arthur and Martha Hearron Endowed Professor of Musical Theatre. She has been on faculty with the Department of Musical Theatre since 2004. She is also Faculty Director of MPulse Musical Theatre Workshop, a summer intensive for high school students held at the University of Michigan.
