Bøker av Katie N. Johnson

Challenging the widely accepted idea that Broadway was the white-hot creative engine of US theatre during the early 20th century, Katie Johnson reveals a far more complex system of exchanges between the Broadway establishment and a vibrant Black theatre scene in New York and beyond to chart a new history of American and transnational theatre.

In early twentieth-century US culture, sex sold. The Progressive Era was obsessed with prostitution, sexuality, and the staging of women's changing roles in the modern era. By the 1910s, plays about prostitution had inundated Broadway. Katie N. Johnson recovers six of these plays, presenting them with astute cultural analysis, photographs, and production histories.