14/09/2026
Louisa May Alcott loved the theatre: she wrote and staged plays both at home and with amateur theatre groups; she attended plays and recorded her thoughts about them in her journals; she aspired to be an actress herself.
And while there is much we can know about her personal world, it is more difficult to place her in the context of the 19th century theatre world from her primary source works alone.
So we reached out to 19th century theatre scholar Dr. Amy E. Hughes, Professor of Theatre and Drama at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor. She welcomed us into the theatre world of Alcott’s time: what life would have been like, if Alcott had followed the path she didn’t take, and became an actress.
Join us for this incredible cross-disciplinary conversation! Available now wherever you listen to podcasts.
