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An Introduction to Theatre Arts
Most introductory theatre textbooks are written for theatre majors and assume the student already has a considerable amount of knowledge on the subjec...
For more than a century, original music has been composed for the cinema. From the early days when live music accompanied silent films to the present ...
British Musicals on the New York Stage
In The Mikado to Matilda: British Musicals on the New York Stage, Thomas Hischak provides an overview of British musicals that made their way to Broad...
Directors and Choreographers on the New York Stage
A companion book to author Thomas Hischak's earlier volume Enter the Players: New York Stage Actors in the 20th Century (Scarecrow Press, 2003), Enter...
Still the most influential and popular songwriting team in the history of the American Musical Theatre, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein represen...
Hollywood's Greatest Year
What do Babes in Arms, Beau Geste, Gunga Din, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Only Angels Have Wings, and Young Mr. Lincoln all have in common? They are ...
For more than five decades, Woody Allen has been one of the most critically acclaimed talents in American cinema. Allen has been nominated for best di...
Thornton Wilder is one of Americaโs greatest writers, and the only author to win Pulitzer Prizes in both fiction and drama. Equally well known for h...
Theatre as Human Action is the ideal textbook to introduce students to the various aspects of theatre, especially for those who may have little or no ...
Offers background information and commentary on 1,200 popular songs from a variety of styles and genres written between the mid-nineteenth century and...
From Greenwich Village Follies to The Toxic Avenger
Although the venue Off Broadway has long been the birthplace of innovative and popular musicals, there have been few studies of these influential work...
A dictionary of short entries on American musicals and their practitioners, including performers, composers, lyricists, producers, and choreographers...
Following the successful The American Musical Theatre Song Encyclopedia (Greenwood, 1995), this new encyclopedia reviews, in-depth, individual songs w...
A Guide to the Genre
This wide-ranging guide introduces (or reintroduces) readers to movie musicals past and present, enabling them to experience the development of this u...
100 Greatest American Plays is the 1st book on the 100 greatest American, non-musical plays. Arranged alphabetically, each entry covers each play exte...
Jerome Kern (1885-1945) is considered one of the most versatile and influential of all American theatre and film composers. His pioneer work in develo...
Broadway's Librettists
A lively and informative look at the careers, works, and characteristics of the major librettists of the American theatre. Included are dozens of men ...
What Happened to the Broadway Musical when it Went to Hollywood
This book is about the transition that musicals went through when they traveled from the stage to the screen. While the approach is critical, the styl...
First published in 1984, Gerald Bordman's Oxford Companion to American Theatre is the standard one-volume source on our national theatre. Critics have...
An Encyclopedic Guide to the American Movie Musical
This encyclopedic reference to the American movie musical identifies and describes the musicals and the artists who made them. Film entries range from...
Descriptions and Essential Facts of More Than 14,000 Shows through 2007
New York City's Broadway district is by far the most prestigious and lucrative venue for American performers, playwrights, entertainers and technician...
Broadway Lyricists from Cohan to Sondheim
Hischak surveys the development of the American musical during the 20th century by focusing on the lyricists, both obscure and well-known (the well-kn...
525 Works and Their Adaptations
The 525 notable works of 19th and 20th century American fiction in this reference book have many stage, movie, television, and video adaptations. Each...
Animation has been a staple of the filmmaking process since the early days of cinema. Animated shorts had been produced for decades, but not until 193...
An Encyclopedic Guide to the American Musical Theatre
"...The book succeeds due to its comprehensiveness and useful cross-referencing....There is a wealth of information here." Library Journal...
Songs written for Disney productions over the decades have become a potent part of American popular culture. Since most Americans first discovered the...
A Chronicle of Comedy and Drama, 1969-2000
Volume Four of the distinguished American Theatre: A Chronicle of Comedy and Drama series offers a thorough, candid, and fascinating look at the theat...
A Biographical Dictionary
This biographical dictionary is devoted to the actors who provided voices for all the Disney animated theatrical shorts and features from the 1928 Mic...
A Collection of Lists, People, History, and Commentary on the American Theatre
As a concise study of the American theatre, this work explores the past and present by looking at major aspects of theatregoing in America over the pa...
New York Stage Actors in the Twentieth Century
"Each player is discussed in a brief biography, followed by a complete list of every play and character they performed in New York. Also included are ...
650 Stage Productions and Their Film and Television Adaptations
Detailed commentary is given on what changes occurred between the formats, the strengths and weaknesses of each, the success of the transition, and ho...
The musical theatre song is conceived, written, and produced as part of a whole. While it may eventually stand on its own and join the ranks of popula...
Musical Theatre's Forgotten References
BROADWAY DECODED: MUSICAL THEATRE'S FORGOTTTEN REFERENCES...