The American musical has achieved and maintained relevance to more people in America than any other performance-based art. This thoughtful history of the genre,

The American musical has long provided an important vehicle through which writers, performers, and audiences reimagine who they are and how they might best inte

The Oxford Handbook of The American Musical offers new and cutting-edge essays on the most important and compelling issues and topics in the growing, interdisci

Our Musicals, Ourselves is the first full-scale social history of the American musical theater from the imported Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas of the late n

Issues of identity have always been central to the American musical in all its guises. Who appears in musicals, who or what they are meant to represent, and how