Musical Theatre Artist and Historian.



THE AMERICAN MUSICAL
A New Book by Ben West
Routledge, 2023
MUSEUM OF BROADWAY
145 West 45th Street
Times Square, New York City



“The strangest thing about the theatre’s history is that it is always about to terminate. Commentators are traditionally obsessed with a conviction that the theatre cannot possibly live more than a few years beyond the time at which they write…”
Oscar Hammerstein II