Susan Kattwinkel, Editor Blue Collar Broadway: The Craft and Industry of American Theater By Timothy R. White Reviewed by David Bisaha The New Humor in the Progressive Era: Americanization and the Vaudeville Comedian By Rick DesRochers Reviewed by Cheryl Black Stages of Engagement Edited by Joshua E. […]
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Blue Collar Broadway: The Craft and Industry of American Theater. By Timothy R. White. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015; Pp. 275. Blue-Collar Broadway: The Craft and Industry of American Theater adds a refreshing urban studies point of view to the increasingly interdisciplinary body of work on Times Square, alongside […]
The New Humor in the Progressive Era: Americanization and the Vaudeville Comedian. By Rick DesRochers. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. Pp. 187. Rick DesRochers’s exploration of vaudeville comedians and comediennes during vaudeville’s heyday is richly contextualized within a particular sociocultural moment, a crucial moment of rapid change in the history […]
Stages of Engagement. Edited by Joshua E. Polster. Routledge Press: New York, NY, 2016. Pp. 241. Joshua Polster’s Stages of Engagement features eight essays that examine the relationship between United States society, culture and politics in order to demonstrate how the first half of the twentieth century was marked by […]
