Theatre Appreciation (43-101)

Core Books on American Theatre

• The Cambridge history of American theatre / edited by Don B. Wilmeth, Christopher Bigsby
  • v. 3. Post-World War II to the 1990s
• Century of innovation : a history of European and American theatre and drama since the late nineteenth century / Oscar G. Brockett [and] Robert Findlay
• The history of North American theater : from pre-Columbian times to the present / Felicia Hardison Londrae and Daniel J. Watermeier
• Theater in America : 250 years of plays, players, and productions / Mary C. Henderson
• Out on stage : lesbian and gay theatre in the twentieth century / Alan Sinfield
• American avant-garde theatre : a history / Arnold Aronson
• The theater is in the street : politics and performance in sixties America / Bradford D. Martin
• Making the scene : a history of stage design and technology in Europe and the United States / Oscar G. Brockett, Margaret Mitchell, Linda Hardberger
• Sculpting space in the theater : conversations with the top set, light and costume designers / Babak Ebrahimian
• Theater technology / by George C. Izenour

Core Books Vaudeville

• The comic offense from Vaudeville to contemporary comedy: Larry David, Tina Fey, Stephen Colbert, and Dave Chappelle / Rick DesRochers
• Blue vaudeville: Sex, morals and the mass marketing of amusement, 1895-1915 / Andrew L. Erdman
• Rank ladies [electronic resource]: Gender and cultural hierarchy in American vaudeville / M. Alison Kibler
• The voice of the city: Vaudeville and popular culture in New York / Robert W. Snyder
• Vaudeville U.S.A. / by John E. DiMeglio
• Vaudeville: from the honky-tonks to the Palace / by Joe Laurie, Jr.

Core Books Burlesque

• Horrible prettiness [electronic resource]: Burlesque and American Culture / Robert C. Allen
• Behind the Burly Q : The story of Burlesque in America / Leslie Zemeckis ; foreword by Blaze Starr

American Musical Theatre

• The golden age of American musical theatre : 1943-1965 / Corinne J. Naden
• The musical: a look at the American musical theater / by Richard Kislan
• "No legs, no jokes, no chance": a history of the American musical theater / Sheldon Patinkin
• The Cambridge companion to the musical / edited by William A. Everett and Paul R. Laird
• Musical theatre, realism and entertainment [electronic resource] / Millie Taylor
• Broadway: the American musical / Laurence Maslon ; based on the documentary film by Michael Kantor
• Strike up the band: a new history of musical theatre / Scott Miller
• The rise and fall of the Broadway musical / Mark N. Grant
• The theater will rock: a history of the rock musical : from Hair to Hedwig / Elizabeth L. Wollman
• The megamusical / Jessica Sternfeld
• Our musicals, ourselves: a social history of the American musical theater / John Bush Jones
• Musical scene study: the musicals of Rodgers & Hammerstein / compiled and edited by Tom Briggs

Books on Specific Musicals

• The making of The Sound of Music / Max Wilk
• Oklahoma! : the making of an American musical
• The making of West Side Story
• Wicked : a musical biography
• The Lion King : Pride Rock on Broadway
• Hamilton : the revolution : being the complete libretto of the Broadway musical, with a true account of its creation, and concise remarks on hip-hop, the power of stories, and the new America