Adaptation in Musical Theatre examines adaptation as inherent to musical theatre, an art form with an established histor......more

Scenography in Musical Theatre answers the questions: What are the ways that scenography acts as a mode of storytelling ......more

How does a feminist spectator navigate misogynist representations of women? Musicals have always appealed to women as au......more

Discover John Kander and Fred Ebb, the most artistically and commercially successful musical theatre writing team since ......more

A groundbreaking exploration that reveals the powerful impact of marginalized groups on the evolution of the Broadway Mu......more

A groundbreaking exploration that reveals the powerful impact of marginalized groups on the evolution of the Broadway Mu......more

Musical Theatre Acting: A Practical Guide serves as a guide to the beginning musical theatre artist, the student, or the......more

Stephen Sondheim is one of the best-known and most-loved musical theatre composers, but also one of the most misundersto......more

Fans of the theatre will be thrilled to discover the original posters for hundreds of Broadway’s biggest and most belove......more

In Blues Mamas and Broadway Belters, songwriter, scholar, and dramatist Masi Asare explores the singing practice of Blac......more

Beloved theatre critic Peter Filichia has created a treasure for the ages with A Show Tune for Today, a whimsical day-by......more

The inside story of what it took to bring Monty Python and the Holy Grail to Broadway as the unlikely theatrical hit Spa......more

Musical Theatre Education and Training in the 21st Century presents a wide range of viewpoints on the musical theatre pr......more

Hailed as the world’s first Deaf musical--told entirely in American Sign Language and Signed Music--The Black Drum revol......more

The Book of Joel is the visual life story of one of the world’s most beloved entertainers, Joel Grey: actor, singer, dan......more

A new look at artist Oscar Hammerstein II as a pivotal and underestimated force in the creation of modern American cultu......more

Do you go crazy for Cabaret? Sing along to SIX? Get weepy at Wicked? Have fond memories of Phantom? Then this jigsaw puz......more

Working within the limits of a popular song, the songwriters of the Great American Songbook wrote with a combination of ......more

How do musical theater songs actually get written? What enables some composer and lyricist partnerships to last for deca......more

This volume provides a comprehensive survey of the musical Hair and will offer critical analysis which focuses on giving......more

Playwright, composer, actor, director, and producer George M. Cohan looms large in musical theater legend. Remembered to......more

How do filmmakers guide viewer attention through the frame using the movement of bodies on screen? What do they seek to ......more

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What links the popular songs "You’ll Never Walk Alone", "Send in the Clowns", "Memory" and "I Am What I Am"? They all or......more

Commemorating over 75 years of Broadway greatness with never-before told stories, rare photos from the American Theatre ......more

The Music Man stands as one of the greatest achievements in American musical theatre, but few know about its rocky begin......more

The American Musical is a comprehensive history of an American art form. It delivers a detailed and definitive portrait ......more

EROS!! Do your thing! It’s 1950s London, and Ferdy, Bernie, Dennis and Lennie arrive from the West Indies full of expect......more

A captivating account of an interracial jazz opera that took apartheid South Africa by storm and marked a turning point ......more

In 1969, when Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice decided to write a rock opera about Jesus Christ, they had little idea th......more

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The shortest runs can have the longest legacies: for too long, scholarship surrounding British musical theatre has coale......more

This new collection brings together the romance, love, and lust encompassing the musical genre. Established and emergent......more

From Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins’s 1879 musical Peculiar Sam to Lynn Nottage’s 2021 musical MJ, the ’Black musical’ does n......more

From Oklahoma! and West Side Story, to Spring Awakening and Hamilton, dance remains one of the most important and key fa......more

From Oklahoma! and West Side Story, to Spring Awakening and Hamilton, dance remains one of the most important and key fa......more

There’s this unspoken thing right? I guess this resistance to admitting that someone else’s trauma can be traumatising. ......more

Many churchgoers will recognize the name William Bradbury, a nineteenth-century American composer of popular hymns still......more

Many churchgoers will recognize the name William Bradbury, a nineteenth-century American composer of popular hymns still......more

Step into a world where the brightest creative minds of contemporary musical theatre share their insights and inspiratio......more

With its groundbreaking score, unabashed romanticism, and scrappy sensibility, Rent was like a firecracker thrown into a......more

One of Oprah’s Favorite Things of 2023 Celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece The Colo......more

Most writers, composers, librettists, and music directors who make their careers in musical theatre do so without specif......more

Most writers, composers, librettists, and music directors who make their careers in musical theatre do so without specif......more

The British musical in its formative years has appeared in strikingly different guises: from the lasting hits of Oliver!......more

How to Swing in Musical Theatre shines a light on the most universal techniques used by cast members who, in response to......more

Lively, sophisticated, and filled with first-person tributes and glorious images, Sondheim: His Life, His Shows, His Leg......more

Kirtan is a broad term referring to various forms of devotional singing commonly done in South Asian traditions. It is a......more

A lively guide to fifty popular musicals from the comedy classics of the 1930s and 1940s to the frequently-produced darl......more

When the young composer-lyricist Douglas Cohen first secured the musical rights to the novel No Way to Treat a Lady by W......more

Doing the Time Warp explores how song and dance - sites of aesthetic difference in the musical - can ’warp’ time and ena......more

20 Seasons: Broadway Musicals of the 21st Century catalogues, categorizes, and analyzes the 269 musicals that opened on ......more

20 Seasons: Broadway Musicals of the 21st Century catalogues, categorizes, and analyzes the 269 musicals that opened on ......more

How did L. Frank Baum, the author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, create the stage show called The Tik-Tok Man of Oz? How......more

The Stephen Sondheim Encyclopedia is the first reference volume devoted to the works of this prolific composer and lyric......more

Featuring contributions from over eighty original cast members, creatives, crew and audience members, Out For Blood piec......more

Featuring contributions from over eighty original cast members, creatives, crew and audience members, Out For Blood piec......more

Hip-Hop culture’s explosive arrival on the art scene of New York in the boroughs of Queens and the Bronx in the 1970s be......more

While most discussions of race in American theater emphasize the representation of race mainly in terms of character, pl......more

Experience the magic of one of Broadway’s most beloved musicals. Set in ancient Greece, The Golden Apple combines classi......more

Alice in Wonderland the Musical is an original Off-Broadway musical with book and lyrics by Brenda Bell and music by Mic......more

This book is a comprehensive guide to the performers, producers, and playwrights associated with the Lyceum Theatre in L......more

This classic musical comedy follows the romantic misadventures of a group of café patrons in Paris. With catchy tunes, w......more

This book is a comprehensive guide to the performers, producers, and playwrights associated with the Lyceum Theatre in L......more

The official behind-the-scenes companion to the stage musical adaptation of Back to the Future; includes the complete ly......more

Milestones in Musical Theatre tracks ten of the most significant moments in musical theatre history, from some of its ea......more

The first study to explore the crucial influence of Kurt Weill on operas and musicals by Marc Blitzstein and Leonard Ber......more

Historical Dictionary of Vaudeville contains a chronology, an introduction, an extensive bibliography, and the dictionar......more

For decades, British stage musicals struggled to compete against the dazzling Broadway productions that came roaring in ......more

We’d like to propose a toast...to Broadway! Learn the spirited history of drinking on stage (and off) and how to make co......more

This book offers a series of essays that show the integrated role that musical structure (including harmony, melody, rhy......more

This book offers a series of essays that show the integrated role that musical structure (including harmony, melody, rhy......more

The Front Lawn is a multi-award-winning, much-loved New Zealand duo-turned-trio made up of Don McGlashan, Harry Sinclair......more

The Front Lawn is a multi-award-winning, much-loved New Zealand duo-turned-trio made up of Don McGlashan, Harry Sinclair......more

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A behind-the-scenes look at the making of the iconic musical Sunday in the Park with George ......more