21st-Century Broadway Musicals and the ‘Best Musical’ Tony Award: Trends and Impact
Arts, 2020 Recent Broadway theatre seasons consistently saw record-breaking numbers of admissions and grosses, with musicals’ ticket sales making up 78–89% of annual Broadway grosses.
Matthew Hodge
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The Dialogue of Giants: How Broadway and Hollywood “Saved” American Animation (and Were Saved in Return). (Kunze, Peter C. Staging a Comeback: Broadway, Hollywood, and the Disney Renaissance. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2023. 224 р.) [PDF]
Литература двух Америк, 2023 Peter Kunze’s book Staging a Comeback: Broadway, Hollywood, and the Disney Renaissance is a (overwhelmingly) well-researched study of the transmedial migration of popular narratives in the 1980s and the 1990s.
Polina Yu. Rybina
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Dream Collaborations: From the History of Eugene O’Neill’s Failed Projects [PDF]
Литература двух Америк, 2021 This article is focused on Eugene O’Neill’s failed artistic collaborations with outstanding directors, actors and singers. It is the first attempt, in the Russian theatre studies, to get to the truth behind the playwright’s unrealized tandem with the ...
Amina A. Zhamanova
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Red Rust vs Yellow Rust: Metamorphoses of the Soviet Play on Broadway [PDF]
Литература двух Америк, 2023 The study focuses on the adaptation of a politically engaged dramaturgical work from Bolshevik Russia — Vladimir Kirshon’s and Andrey Uspensky’s play Konstantin Terekhin (Rust) — to the specific requirements of Broadway, the commercial theater of the USA,
Maxim M. Gudkov
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Music of the Highlands in Manhattan: William Saroyan’s Drama Debut [PDF]
Литература двух Америк, 2018 W. Saroyan, one of the most significant American writers in the first half of the XX century, was always strongly attracted to theater. However, his drama debut did not take place immediately – only when he gained mastery and success as an author of ...
Maxim M. Gudkov
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The First Soviet Plays on Broadway: Reception of Domestic Drama in American Commercial Theatre, 1920–1930s [PDF]
Литература двух Америк, 2017 Thе paper discusses the reception of Soviet dramaturgy in the American commercial theatre of the 1920–1930s. The author investigates the theatrical history of Soviet plays on Broadway in the wide political and cultural Soviet-American macro-context ...
Maxim M. Gudkov
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Social Media Will Tell Your Story: The Digital Strategy of #Ham4Ham
European Journal of American Studies, 2023 During the first two years of the Hamilton show on Broadway, the #Ham4Ham lottery system provided fans waiting outside the theater with live performances that included the show's original cast. These included Hamilton songs, covers of other musicals, and
Ismael Lopez Medel
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L’unicità della drammaturgia Off-Off Broadway nell’Avanguardia americana
Il castello di Elsinore, 2022 At the beginning of the Sixties, during the diffusion of the New Theatre, a new movement named Off- Off-Broadway was born in New York City. It was promoted by little theatres located in coffeehouses, churches and galleries. The main and common objective
Monica Cristini
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“I Can’t Be What You Expect of Me”: Power, Palatability, and Shame in Frozen: The Broadway Musical
Arts, 2020 This article combines critical, cultural, and musical analysis to situate Frozen: The Broadway Musical as a distinct work within Disney’s wider franchise.
Hannah Robbins
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John Lahr on Arthur Miller: the Structure and Effects of a Life in the Theatre (Lahr, John. Arthur Miller. American Witness. New Haven, CT; London: Yale University Press, 2022.) [PDF]
Литература двух АмерикTheatre critic John Lahr writes Arthur Miller's biography as a meticulous study reminiscent of a fascinating novel. Relying upon extensive archival materials, correspondence, his own interviews with Miller and the works of his predecessors (K. Bigsby, M.
Polina Yu. Rybina
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