Broadway Goes to War: American Theater During World War II

by Sally E Parry, Robert L McLaughlin, Robert L. McLaughlin, et al.

Book Overview

In Broadway Goes to War, Robert L. McLaughlin and Sally E. Parry analyze how American theater actively addressed and debated timely and controversial topics during World War II. Productions such as Watch on the Rhine (1941), The Moon is Down (1942), Tomorrow the World (1943), and A Bell for Adano (1944) encouraged public discussion of the war's impact on daily life and raised critical topics about the conflict...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813180945
• ISBN13: 9780813180946
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up