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    • The Pleasure and Promise of Musical Theatre Across America
    • By: Stacy Wolf
    • Narrated by: Romy Nordlinger
    • Length: 15 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 08-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In Beyond Broadway, author Stacy Wolf looks at the widespread presence and persistence of musical theater in US culture and examines it as a social practice - a live, visceral experience of creating, watching, and listening....

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    • By: Thomas Wolfe
    • Narrated by: NBC Theater
    • Length: 54 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-10
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 109 ratings
    • George Webber, a first-time author, writes a book that makes frequent references to his home town of Libya Hill. The book is a success, except in Libya Hill....

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    • The Craft and Industry of American Theater
    • By: Timothy R. White
    • Narrated by: Doug McDonald
    • Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 01-28-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Behind the scenes of New York City's Great White Way, virtuosos of stagecraft have built the scenery, costumes, lights, and other components of theatrical productions for more than a hundred years....

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    • American Theater During World War II
    • By: Robert L. McLaughlin, Sally E. Parry
    • Narrated by: Marlin May
    • Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-22
    • Language: English
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    • McLaughlin and Parry's work fills a significant gap in the history of theater and popular culture, showing that American society was more divided and less idealistic than the received histories of the WWII home front and the entertainment industry recognize....

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    • The Untold Story of the Actors and Stagehands at Ford's Theatre
    • By: Thomas A. Bogar
    • Narrated by: R.C. Bray
    • Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 11-04-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 50 ratings
    • April 14, 1865. A famous actor pulls a trigger in the presidential balcony, leaps to the stage, and escapes, as the president lies fatally wounded....

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    • The History of Afro-American Musical Theater and Entertainment 1865-1930
    • By: Ronald Smokey Stevens
    • Narrated by: Ronald Smokey Stevens
    • Length: 2 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 06-23-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The First 60 Years chronicles the contributions made by Black Americans to the entertainment industry from 1871 through 1930. This book chronicles the history and the beginnings of Black Vaudeville, the creation of the blues, and the beginnings of Black theatrical entrepreneurship....

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    • Inside the Great American Songbook from Gershwin to Sondheim
    • By: Rob Kapilow
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Few people in recent memory have dedicated themselves as devotedly to the story of twentieth-century American music as Rob Kapilow, the composer, conductor....

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    • By: W. Anthony Sheppard - editor
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer, Janet Metzger
    • Length: 18 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 08-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Sondheim in Our Time and His offers a wide-ranging historical investigation of the landmark works and extraordinary career of Stephen Sondheim, a career which has spanned much of the history of American musical theater....

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    • How We Made a Great American Art
    • By: Sam Wasson
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 15 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 12-05-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 67 ratings
    • At the height of the McCarthy era, an experimental theater troupe set up shop in a bar near the University of Chicago. Via word-of-mouth, astonished crowds packed the ad-hoc venue....

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    • The Life and Times of the Musical Chicago
    • By: Ethan Mordden
    • Narrated by: Joel Froomkin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 08-28-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • As author Ethan Mordden looks back at Chicago's various moving parts, we learn how the American theater serves as a kind of alternative news medium, a town crier warning the public about the racy, devious interior contradictions of American society....

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    • American Armed Forces in the European Theater in World War II
    • By: Charles B. MacDonald
    • Narrated by: Traber Burns
    • Length: 22 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 12-01-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 77 ratings
    • From the first landings at Casablanca straight through to the crossing of the Elbe River and V-E Day, this book tells the gripping story of the European theater of operations battles of World War II....

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    • By: James Anthony Tyler
    • Narrated by: Ronald Emile, Jayme Lawson, Kareem Lucas, Portia
    • Length: 1 hr and 27 mins
    • Release date: 02-18-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 571 ratings
    • NYC, 2013. During late night trips on the A train, we get snapshots of Tyrone's life - his close relationship with his mother, his attempts to flirt with a coworker, Niesha, his job as a bouncer, and his dreams of going back to school....

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    • By: Susan Cooper
    • Narrated by: Jim Dale
    • Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 65 ratings
    • Only in the world of the theater can Nat Field find an escape from the tragedies that have shadowed his young life. So he is thrilled when he is chosen to join an American drama troupe traveling to London....

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    • A Life
    • By: Patti Hartigan
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham, Patti Hartigan
    • Length: 16 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 01-09-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Author and theater critic Patti Hartigan provides the first authoritative biography of August Wilson, the most important and successful American playwright of the late 20th century....

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    • Heroes Of Wake Island
    • By: Rev George Stoddard
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 4 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 10-24-24
    • Language: English
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    • "The Island Warriors": Heroes of Wake Island, is a gripping biographical account that delves into the defense and capture of POW's on Wake Island, ...

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    • The Aurora Theater Shooter and the Epidemic of Mass Violence Committed by American Youth
    • By: Stephen Singular, Joyce Singular
    • Narrated by: Tom Taylorson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 06-09-15
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • Provocative and eye opening, The Spiral Notebook is a glimpse into the forces that are shaping the future of American youth, an entire generation bathed in the violence committed by their peers....

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    • American Witness
    • By: John Lahr
    • Narrated by: John Rubinstein
    • Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 11-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • A great theater critic brings twentieth-century playwright Arthur Miller’s dramatic story to life with bold and revealing new insights....

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    • Theater, Fashion, and American Culture
    • By: Marlis Schweitzer
    • Narrated by: Laura Faye Smith
    • Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 01-10-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • When Broadway Was the Runway explores the central and largely unacknowledged role of commercial Broadway theater in the birth of modern American fashion and consumer culture....

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