American Theatre: A Chronicle of Comedy and Drama: 1869-1914

by Gerald Boardman and Gerald Bordman

This three-volume work will accomplish for the American non-musical theatre what Bordman's American Musical Theatre did for our song-and-dance entertainments: it chronicles, in order by opening, every Broadway comedy and drama, show by show, season by season, offering a plot synopsis, principal players, and important statistics. Scenery and costumes are described where they might be of interest, and comments of the plays' contemporary critics are...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195037642
• ISBN13: 9780195037647
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 808 Pages
• Weight: 3.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 8.1" x 9.6"