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Better Foot Forward: The History of American Musical Theatre. Grossman Publishers. ISBN 9780670159741. Naden, Corinne J. (2011). The Golden Age of American Musical Theatre: 1943-1965. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810877337. Porter, Susan L. (1991). With An Air Debonair: Musical Theatre in America, 1785-1815. Smithsonian Institution Press.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikimedia Commons ... This is a list of notable composers of musicals. See also List of musicals by composer. A ...
Musical theatre writer Andrew Lamb notes, "The triumph of American works over European in the first decades of the twentieth century came about against a changing social background. The operatic and theatrical styles of nineteenth-century social structures were replaced by a musical style more aptly suited to twentieth-century society and its ...
Pages in category "American musical theatre composers" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 341 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Jonathan David Larson (February 4, 1960 – January 25, 1996) was an American composer, lyricist and playwright, most famous for writing the musicals Rent and Tick, Tick... Boom!, which explored the social issues of multiculturalism, substance use disorder, and homophobia. Larson had worked on both musicals throughout the late 1980s and into ...
Jackson was named one of the "Black Male Writers for our Time" by The New York Times in 2018. [15] In 2019, he received a Whiting Award for drama and a Helen Merrill Award for Playwriting. [16] [17] In 2020, Jackson was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for A Strange Loop, becoming the first black musical theatre writer to win the award. [18]
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Theater of the United States; ... An Outline History of American Drama, 2nd ed., New York: Feedback Theatrebooks/Prospero ...
Pages in category "American dramatists and playwrights" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 494 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .