In the Long Run: A Cultural History of Broadway\'s Hit Plays presents in-depth analysis of 15 Plays that ran over 1,000 performances, examining what made each so popular in its time--and then, in many cases, fall into obscurity.
Each chapter focuses on the longest-running Plays of a particular decade, synthe.
Covering one hundred years of theatre history, it traces the long-running Broadway play as a distinct Cultural phenomenon that rises and falls from 1918 to 2018.
In the Long Run: A Cultural History of Broadway\'s Hit Plays presents in-depth analysis of 15 Plays that ran over 1,000 performances, examining what made each so popular in its time--and then, in many cases, fall into obscurity