Transatlantic Broadway: The Infrastructural Politics of Global Performance [Hardcover]

Transatlantic Broadway traces the infrastructural networks and technological advances that supported the globalization of popular entertainment in the pre-World War I period, with a specific focus on the production and performance of Broadway as physical space, dream factory, and glorious machine.Introduction: Transatlantic Broadway: The Infrastructural Politics of Global Performance 1. Networking the Waves: Ocean Liners, Impresarios, and Broadway's Atlantic Expansion 2. Along the Wires: Telegraphic Performances and the Wiring of Broadway 3. White Collar Broadway: Performing the Modern Office 4. ''My Word! How He is Kissing Her': The Material Culture of Theatrical Promotion 5. Epilogue: Transatlantic (re)Crossings Endnotes Bibliography Index

Transatlantic Broadway makes an important contribution to theatre and performance studies, American cultural history, histories of capitalism, and studies of print and material culture. & Essential for scholars and teachers of theatre history, Schweitzers study prompts readers to envision historiography as competing and overlapping threads or networks. & Transatlantic Broadway attends to performers, spaces, and archives that have been neglected in previous studies of the theatre, thus encouraging scholars to rethink the literal and disciplinary borders of US theatre history. (Nicole Berkin, Theatre Survey, Vol. 58 (1), January, 2017)

This finely wrought book significantly expands the fields of US theatre history and performance studies by mapping a new historiographical framework for understanding Broadways formation. & Schweitzers combined application of ANT and scriptive thing theory to transatlantic Broadway offers an inspiring historiographical model for performance scholars. (Kim Marra, Theatre Journal, Vol. 68 (4), December, 2016) 

Transatlantic Broadway examines a wide range of theatrical media, tracing their circuits through Europe and the United States and clS