Theatre 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...

Performing the American Frontier, 1870-1906 examines how the American frontier was presented in t...

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 2003 book ...

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...