Musicals

Queer Approaches in Musical Theatre introduces readers to a facet of musicals often assumed but misunderstood: how queer approaches in musical thea...

While most discussions of race in American theater emphasize the representation of race mainly in terms of character, plot, and action, Race in Ame...

Hip-Hop cultures explosive arrival on the art scene of New York in the boroughs of Queens and the Bronx in the 1970s began to influence all aspects...

Winner of the STR Theatre Book Prize 2024 Featuring contributions from over eighty original cast members, creatives, crew and audience members, Ou...

Winner of the STR Theatre Book Prize 2024 Featuring contributions from over eighty original cast members, creatives, crew and audience members, Ou...

In the decades before the Second World War, popular musical theatre was one of the most influential forms of entertainment. This is the first book ...

This book is concerned with a hundred years of musical drama in England. It charts the development of the genre from the theatre works of Henry Pur...

A history and re-evaluation of the American musical in London between 1945 and 1972, a unique panoramic essay on British theatre of the Golden Age....

This long-awaited study explores the creation of NBC-TV's landmark 1952-53 WWII documentary series, with particular attention to its evocative Rodg...

The first book to deal exclusively with British musical flops, Must Close Saturday presents a rolling panorama of the good, the bad and the ugly, r...

How do we compare a Broadway musical to its Hollywood counterpart? A Fine Romance: Adapting Broadway to Hollywood in the Studio System Era answers ...

Drawing upon Broadway musicals ranging from Irene (1919) to Gypsy (1959), Maya Cantu considers how Cinderella Broadway musicals from the 1920s thro...

Putting It Together chronicles the two-year odyssey of creating the iconic Broadway musical Sunday in the Park with George. In 1982, James Lapine, ...

The volume is a collection of scholarly essays and personal responses that contextualizes Hamilton: An American Musical in various frameworks: h...

Grease, Tell Me More, Tell Me More is a fabulous rockin and rollin origin story with every juicy inspiration that went into creating it. . . . A mu...

UNLOCK THE MAGIC OF THEATRE THIS CHRISTMAS - GO BEHIND THE CURTAIN WITH WEST END LEGEND, MICHAEL BALL IN HIS FIRST MEMOIR 'Love, laughter and tears...