Variety shows, music hall, cabaret books

"It's Saturday night in Key West and the Girlie Show is about to begin at the 801 Cabaret. The girls have been outside...  Read More >>

The ways the Cherokee Nation's stories, arts, technologies, and history influenced the work of one of the United...  Read More >>

Individually and together, the Five Sedgwicks are among the unsung heroes of the early history of filmmaking in...  Read More >>

Glasgow is famous for its music and the venues that have hosted bands, stars and talent. 'Dear Green Sounds' tells...  Read More >>

Roy Kemp's previously unpublished burlesque portfolio presents thirty-nine dancers performing in authentic clubs...  Read More >>

Burlesque was one of America's most popular forms of live entertainment in the first half of the twentieth century....  Read More >>

Open from 1942 until 1945, the Hollywood Canteen was the most famous of the patriotic home front nightclubs where...  Read More >>

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Open from 1942 until 1945, the Hollywood Canteen was the most famous of the patriotic home front nightclubs where...  Read More >>

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Music Hall lies at the root of all modern popular entertainment. This book is a hugely engaging slice of social...  Read More >>

A heart-warming nostalgia memoir from a member of the world famous dance troupe, The Tiller Girls. Based in London...  Read More >>

This is the first book about the theatre career of Fred and Adele Astaire, detailing their years in vaudeville,...  Read More >>

By tracing the effects of unprecedented immigration, the advent of the new woman, and the little-known vaudeville...  Read More >>

The late-Victorian discovery of the music hall by English intellectuals marks a crucial moment in the history of...  Read More >>

Each Christmas entire families in the UK troop off to see, what one could almost say is 'the obligatory', annual...  Read More >>

Focusing on star writer/performer comedians—Kathy Griffin, Tina Fey, Sarah Silverman, Margaret Cho, Wanda Sykes,...  Read More >>

The first full-length study of comedy on the burlesque stage, this book takes the reader inside the burlesque houses...  Read More >>

This time last year it might have been a case of Micky who? But in 2011 Micky Flanagan came Out Out with a massive...  Read More >>

Shortlisted for the Theatre Book Prize; former prime minister John Major takes a remarkable journey into his own...  Read More >>

This new edition of Eric Lott's classic cultural history features a new foreword by Greil Marcus and afterword by...  Read More >>

Burlesque was one of America's most popular forms of live entertainment in the first half of the 20th century. Gaudy,...  Read More >>

City Stages combines primary archival research with the scholarly literature emerging from both the humanities and...  Read More >>

Mack Dryden, born and educated in Mississippi, has made a living making people laugh since an air purifier was a...  Read More >>

Former prime minister John Major takes a remarkable journey into his own unconventional family past to tell the...  Read More >>