Some classroom lessons begin with textbooks. Others begin with Broadway.<\/p>\n
A Brooklyn College theater professor<\/a> helped bring two Tony Award-winning productions to the stage this year.<\/p>\n Michael Page<\/a>, an adjunct assistant professor and head of Brooklyn College’s M.F.A. in Performing Arts Management program<\/a>, served as co-producer on Ragtime and Liberation, both of which won major honors at the Tony Awards on June 7.<\/p>\n The Broadway revival of Ragtime won Best Revival of a Musical, while Liberation won Best Play during the 79th annual Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall.<\/p>\n “Having faculty members who are contributing to award-winning productions on Broadway enriches the educational experience for our students,” said Theater\u00a0Department Chair Kip Marsh.<\/p>\n Page was also involved with three other Tony-nominated productions. He served as executive producer of Titan\u00edque, nominated for Best Musical; co-producer of Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York), also nominated for Best Musical; and co-producer of Oedipus, nominated for Best Revival of a Play.<\/p>\n Based on the novel by E.L. Doctorow, Ragtime follows the lives of several families navigating race, class and immigration in early 20th-century America. Liberation, written by Bess Wohl, examines the legacy of the women’s liberation movement and earlier this year received the GLAAD Media Award for outstanding Broadway production.<\/p>\n Page teaches in Brooklyn College’s Department of Theater and has worked as a producer and manager on more than 100 live productions presented on Broadway, off-Broadway, in regional theaters and internationally. Productions he has worked on have received Tony, Obie, Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel and Drama League honors and nominations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some classroom lessons begin with textbooks. Others begin with Broadway. A Brooklyn College theater professor helped bring two…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63,102846],"class_list":["post-265521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-tony-awardsbrooklyn-collegemichael-page"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}