Dear Classes of 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, Today, when many of us are spending more time than ever in front of the computer, I would like to take a moment to talk to you about where we are and where we are headed in our academic lives together. I will spare you the broad and vague claims about how extraordinary these times are, or about the many disruptions to our familiar world. The question, however, of what to do in the face of these disruptions, remains front-of-mind for many of you as you decide whether or not to return to campus for the fall semester.

In her review for the Record, staff writer Lily Goldberg ’22 argues that the recent original production Our Time failed to provide critical perspective on the archival material from which the play’s scenes are crafted and inadequately explored the determinative role that Stephen Sondheim’s identity as “gay and Jewish” played in his experience at Williams.