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Laughing Mad
Winner of the 2008 Katherine Singer Kovacs Book Award Prior to the civil rights movement, comedians performed for audiences that were clearly delineated by race. Black comedians …
Monologues from Shakespeare's First Folio for Older Men
Curated from the Applause three-volume series, Once More unto the Speech, Dear Friends, edited by Neil Freeman, these monologue from Shakespeare's works are given new life and …
You Fascinate Me So
He penned songs such as "e;Witchcraft"e; and "e;The Best Is Yet to Come"e; (signature tunes for Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett, respectively) and wrote such …
Grateful Dead Reader
Here is an exciting collection of writings about The Grateful Dead, offering both classic and hard-to-find essays, reporting, and reviews. Arranged in chronological order, these …
Suzan-Lori Parks in Person
This collection of interviews offers unprecedented insight into the plays and creative works of Suzan-Lori Parks, as well as being an important commentary on contemporary theater …
Mrs. Leslie Carter
"This biography focuses particularly on Mrs. Carter's successful career and on her professional partnership with David Belasco. Spanning a period of radical transformation in …
Performance in the Zocalo
For more than five centuries, the Plaza Mayor (or Zocalo) in Mexico City has been the site of performances for a public spectatorship. During the period of colonial rule, …
Mis-Directing the Play
Arguing for a radical reorganization of the stage director's view of his role, Terry McCabe challenges the notion that a play is the director's vehicle for self-expression. The …
Historians on Hamilton
America has gone Hamilton crazy. Lin-Manuel Miranda's Tony-winning musical has spawned sold-out performances, a triple platinum cast album, and a score so catchy that it is being …
Encyclopedia of Vaudeville
The Encyclopedia of Vaudeville provides a unique record of what was once America's preeminent form of popular entertainment from the late 1800s through the early 1930s. It includes …
Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals
The Broadway musical came of age in the 1950s, a period in which some of the greatest productions made their debuts. Shows produced on Broadway during this decade include such …
The Melodramatic Imagination
In this lucid and fascinating book, Peter Brooks argues that melodrama is a crucial mode of expression in modern literature. After studying stage melodrama as a dominant popular …