Broadway - Research Article from St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture

This encyclopedia article consists of approximately 12 pages of information about Broadway.

Broadway - Research Article from St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture

This encyclopedia article consists of approximately 12 pages of information about Broadway.
This section contains 3,464 words
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If Hollywood is synonymous with the cinema, Broadway has come to signify the American theater. From its humble beginnings in downtown New York City in the early nineteenth century, to its heyday as the Great White Way in the mid-twentieth century, to its status as one of America's chief tourist attractions at the end of the twentieth century, Broadway has lured both aspiring actors and starstruck theatergoers for well over a century, becoming, in the process, one of America's chief contributions to global culture. As the home of the American musical theater and the breeding ground for both popular and cutting-edge drama, Broadway has helped to nurture America's performing arts, even as it has enticed the greatest stars of England and Europe to its stages. In a nation that struggled long and hard to define itself and its artistic community as separate from yet equal to Europe, Broadway...

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