| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.1

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.1 | The History Cooperative

Martha Schmoyer LoMonaco. Summer Stock! An American Theatrical Phenomenon. Foreword by Marian Seldes. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2004. Pp. xxi, 293. $27.95.
American summer stock theater evolved in the 1920s and 1930s in the Northeast and thrived and spread until the 1960s, when it began a steady decline. In its heyday it employed more workers than legitimate theater through all the rest of the year and brought live theater to a population who seldom saw it. Yet its middle-brow reputation has not encouraged previous academic study. This book by Martha Schmoyer LoMonaco is the first history of summer stock.	1
The book is based upon a decade of research including dozens of interviews with participants as well as many archives, by a scholar knowledgeable about theater and familiar with its personnel and practices. It discusses summer stock across the nation, choosing breadth over depth of treatment, a survey rather than a case-study approach. LoMonaco presents the results in explanatory introductions to chapters followed by vignettes of specific theaters that illustrate the points of the chapters.	. . .

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