Laurence Maslon is an arts professor at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. His most recent book is Hitchcocktails:  Lethal Libations Inspired by the Master of Suspense.  His earlier book, I’ll Drink to That!: Broadway Cocktails, published by Insight Editions won the Gold Medal from the Independent Book Publishers in 2024.  He is also the host and producer of the radio series, Broadway to Main Street on the NPR radio station WLIW-FM. The program is winner of the 2019 ASCAP Foundation/Deems Taylor Award for Radio Broadcast.   Among the documentaries he has either cowritten or coproduced for PBS are: the Emmy-Award-winning Broadway: The American Musical; Sammy Davis, Jr.: I’ve Gotta Be Me; and Richard Rodgers: The Sweetest Sounds.  His history of recorded music from Broadway, Broadway to Main Street: How Show Music Enchanted America, was published in 2018 by Oxford University Press. He has served on the nominating committee for the Tony Awards from 2007 to 2010 and he has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the New Yorker, Opera News, Stagebill, and American Theatre.  His revised version of the Gershwin musical Strike Up the Band was presented at Carnegie Hall in 2024.

Larry's Courses:

Now of Then - Year 1

Now of Then - Year 2

Musical Theatre