In this new collection of fiction, a porn star turns up pouring cocktails in a small town's only ...

For Ethan Mordden, the closing night of the hit musical, 42nd St. sounded the death knell of the ...

In this brilliant and lyrical novel of family passions and personal fate, Ethan Mordden weaves a ...

For a generation, Ethan Mordden's tales about a tightly knit circle of friends who live within th...

'We have traded tales, my buddies and I; of affairs, encounters, secrets, fears, self-promotion-o...

From backstage squabbles and box-office chicanery to the gallantry and glory of creation, this bo...

A gay ghost, a talking dog, and a street kid who thinks he's an elf-child join our narrator Bud, ...

Some Men Are Lookers, Ethan Mordden's much lauded fourth volume in his 'Buddies' cycle, follows t...

With careful detail, Mordden highlights the shift in Broadway from shows that were mere star vehi...

Adolf Hitler, the romantic poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, two young gay lovers, Claus von Stauf...

'What unites us, all of us, surely is brotherhood, a sense that our friendships are historic, des...

In the 1960s, the Broadway musical underwent a revolution. What was once a form of entertainment ...

This critical analysis of Streisand looks past the mainstream show-business figure to deconstruct...

Giving each of Stephen Sondheim's musicals its own chapter, Ethan Mordden applies fresh insights ...

Ethan Mordden has been hailed as 'a sharp-eared listener and a discerning critic,' by Opera News,...

From the earliest talkies to the present, Hollywood has drafted the great Broadway songwriters to...

Noted historian of the Broadway musical chronicles the braided lives of two of the twentieth cent...

Vividly recreating the unique pleasure of experiencing a song-and-dance show, Broadway Babies spo...

Building on the continued success of Ethan Mordden's Opera Anecdotes, The New Book of Opera Anecd...

A spirited tour through the decade revolutionized by the great Rodgers and Hammerstein, 'Beautifu...

In Pick a Pocket Or Two, acclaimed author Ethan Mordden brings his wit and wisdom to bear in tell...

This is a definitive study of the American musical in the 1950s, the decade of perhaps its greate...

From the genteel female impersonators of the 1910s to the raucous drag queens of La Cage Aux Foll...