Variety shows, music hall, cabaret books

This book provides a much-needed study of the social, political, cultural and legal conditions surrounding a change...  Read More >>

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Charlie Chaplin grew up in and around the music hall. His parents, aunt and their friends all earned their precarious...  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 >>

In the first major academic work to examine British variety theatre, Double provides a detailed history of this...  Read More >>

In the first major academic work to examine British variety theatre, Double provides a detailed history of this...  Read More >>

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"May Yohe was a popular entertainer from humble American origins who married and then abandoned a wealthy English...  Read More >>

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

An exploration and celebration of a controversial tradition that, contrary to popular opinion, is alive and active...  Read More >>

Illustrated throughout, and supported by an extensive bibliography, this book is divided into five chapters: The...  Read More >>

Tells the stories of 80 women who were among the top vaudeville acts in the late 19th century and early 20th century....  Read More >>

Provides a record of what was once America's pre-eminent form of popular entertainment from the late 1800s through...  Read More >>

In this national bestseller, the author of the acclaimed ""Sin in the Second City"" chronicles the gripping and...  Read More >>

Over the last hundred years, musical theatre artists - from Berlin to Rodgers and Hammerstein to Sondheim - have...  Read More >>

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

A moving and hilarious coming-of-age story about love, sex, and attention deficit disorder.  Read More >>

"Bruce Jones is best known for his role as ""Coronation Street's"" loud-mouthed but likable rogue, Les Batterbsy....  Read More >>

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* Describes in detail the birth of variety theatre * Details the most famous and established acts such as Max Miller...  Read More >>

Examining the work of impresarios, financiers, and the press as well as the artists themselves, Hohman demonstrates...  Read More >>

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This unique book includes a detailed commentary on the rise and fall of Berlin's heady mix of jazz-age novelties,...  Read More >>