The articles that form this volume are compiled from the pages of the New York Clipper. Covering ...

'Chilly Billy' was the nickname of circus mogul William Washington Cole, the chief rival of P. T....

The Greenes were representative of a class of journeymen actors, who received but little attentio...

Includes the seminal 'Early History of Negro Minstrelsy,' by Col. T. Allston Brown, together with...

This modern comedy highlights the clash between Denver Littlefield, a history professor at a Cali...

William L. Slout, circus historian par excellence, here provides six essays on the development of...

The culmination of more than thirty years of research, Olympians of the Sawdust Circle is an atte...

William L. Slout, entertainment historian par excellence, here provides five fascinating essays o...

Originally serialized in the New York Clipper, T. Allston Brown's history of circus and arena per...

Joseph Blackburn, a clown who juggled on horseback, took a professional trip to England in 1838, ...

Well-known theatre and circus historian William L. Slout here collects together 29 first-hand acc...

These recollections of New York theatre life from the 1830s-1850s are selected from 'Reminiscence...