Varieté, music hall, kabaré

With the exception of the occasional local case study, music-hall history has until now been presented as the history of the London halls. This book attempts to redress the balance …

Kevin Nealon has been involved with comedy and entertainment for almost thirty years. As one of the longest-running cast members in the history of "Saturday Night Live", Nealon was …

1920s Cairo: singers were pressing hit records, dramatic troupes were springing up and cabarets were packed - a counterculture was on the rise. In bars, hash-dens and music halls, …

Depicts the personal life of Harpo Marx and traces his career as a member of the Marx Brothers comedy team

A splendid introduction to the world of the European cabaret in the first period of its meteoric rise as a form of artistic creativity."--Harold Segel, author of …

"Yellowface details the theatrical and musical history of Chinese and Chinese American performance at a time when ‘Asian American’ identity was unheard of. It should be a welcome …

Martini Man goes beyond the simple caricature of the boozy lounge singer with a penchant for racy humor to reveal the substantive man behind that mask. Although Martin's movie …

The early years of the twenty-first century have witnessed a proliferation of non-fiction, reality-based performance genres, including documentary and verbatim theatre, …

________________ ‘Dom Joly serves up a narrative of the bizarre and improbable in his spoof autobiography ... Brutal electrocution of a nanny, a fling with Nigel from Turkmenistan …

In her day, Eva Tanguay (1879–1947) was one of the most famous women in America. Widely known as the "I Don't Care Girl"—named after a song she popularized and her independent, …