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About Jonathan Burston

Jonathan Burston is writing a book about megamusicals and global Broadway for Duke University Press. He teaches in the Department of Culture and Communication at New York University.

Articles by Jonathan Burston

Thursday 20th December

Lullaby of Broadway? Big media and the future of commercial theatre

New York’s theatre district is the classic American ‘melting pot’. The unique Broadway distillation of Jewish, black and gay influences proved its spiritual mettle in the wake of 9/11. But can its combination of quality experience, commercial toughness and quasi-religious optimism resist the longer-term threat from bland, franchised ‘megamusicals’?
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