The Hammersteins

The youngest Oscar Hammerstein—grandson of peerless lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II (of Rodgers and Hammerstein fame), who was in turn grandson of Oscar Hammerstein I, the legendary  impresario who brought both American musical theater and opera to maturity as the 19th century grew into the 20th—here celebrates his family's storied legacy in a lavishly illustrated volume.

May 21: The musical smash hit Gypsy opened on Broadway on this day in 1959. The bestseller upon which the show is based, Gypsy Rose Lee's memoir Gypsy, told her life as a rags-to-naked success story, and added to…

Ethan Rutherford and Matt Burgess (Dogfight: A Love Story) on the writing of Rutherford's surreal and fiercely funny story collection The Peripatetic Coffin

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