Theater has often served as a touchstone for moments of political change or national definition a...

Congressional Theatre is the first book to identify and examine the significant body of plays, fi...

This book examines how the American frontier was presented in theatrical productions.

George Frederick Cooke was a member of that select company of legendary actors -- Garrick, Kemble...

Volume 3 of this authoritative and wide-ranging history of American theater examines the theater ...

The American playwright and manager-director Augustin Daly dominated the theatrical scene in the ...

This is the first definitive history of African-American theatre. The text embraces a wide geogra...

Carnival, charivari, mumming plays, peasant festivals, and even early versions of the Santa Claus...

Drawing upon archival resources, official correspondence and personal interviews, this book provi...

In American Drama: The Bastard Art, Susan Harris Smith looks at the many often conflicting cultur...

This new and updated encyclopedic guide, with over 2700 cross-referenced entries, covers all aspe...

The first multi-volume history of the American theater to have been published, The Cambridge Hist...

Theatre Culture in America, 1825-1860 examines how Americans staged their cultures in the decades...

This book proposes a correlation between the divided 'mind' of America during the Depression and ...

Accessible introduction for students and theatregoers of Chicano theatre.

An accessible introduction for students and theatregoers of Chicano theatre, first published in 2...

The American Stage and the Great Depression: A Cultural History of the Grotesque proposes a corre...

Theater has often served as a touchstone for critical moments of political change or national def...

'Most readers will learn a great deal about both entertainment and Americans from this exhaustive...

Arguing that theatrical censorship coincides with significant challenges to religious, political ...

Volume One of a unique three-volume history covering all aspects of American theatre.

Volume Two begins in the post-Civil War period and traces the development of American theater up ...

This volume includes All the Comforts of Home (1890), Secret Service (1895) and Sherlock Holmes (...

Tracing the Victorian and Edwardian antecedents of Shakespearean performance, this 1997 book situ...

?Wilmeth covers the circus, Wild West exhibition, dime museum, medicine and minstrel shows, vaude...

This is a comprehensive attempt to assemble all that is known of theatre at the time of America's...

This book traces the history of African American theatre from its beginnings to the present.

John Barrymore was an original, capable of electrifying audiences with the subtle force and brill...

The Revisionist Stage salutes the achievements of a revolutionary group of American directors who...

Theatre Culture in America, 1825–1860 examines how Americans staged their cultures in the d...

Volume 3 of this authoritative and wide-ranging history of American theater examines the theater ...