Musical Theatre Artist, Consultant, and Historian.



THE MUSICAL THEATRE REPORT
Brutal. Frank. Unforgiving. By Ben West. Published on Sundays.
THE AMERICAN MUSICAL: EVOLUTION OF AN ART FORM
A New Book by Ben West
Published by Routledge
Released on April 1, 2024



There is no one way to make a musical. Nor is there a limit to the stories one can tell on the musical stage. But there remains an art to musical storytelling, a rigorous creative science, that was realized in the middle of the 20th century.