Mary C. Henderson (1928–2012)

Author of Theater in America: 200 Years of Plays, Players, and Productions

About the Author

Dr. Mary C. Henderson, an internationally known expert on American theatre history was, for more than a decade, curator of the Theater Collection of the Museum of the City of New York and the founder/director of the old New York Theatre Museum

Also includes: Mary S. Henderson (1)

Works by Mary C. Henderson

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Theater in America: 200 Years of Plays, Players, and Productions (1986) 148 copies, 1 review

The Story of 42nd Street: The Theatres, Shows, Characters, and Scandals of the World's Most Notorious Street (2008) 19 copies

Broadway Ballyhoo: The American Theater Seen in Posters, Photographs, Magazines, Caricatures, and Programs (1989) 18 copies

Stars on Stage: Eileen Darby and Broadway's Golden Age: Photographs 1940-1964 (2005) 11 copies

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Birthdate: 1928
Date of death: 2012-01-03
Gender: female
Education: Douglass College, Rutgers University
University of Pittsburgh (MA)
New York University (PhD)
Occupations: historian
curator
Organizations: New York University
Museum of the City of New York
Relationships: Henderson, Robert M. (husband)
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: Newark, New Jersey, USA
Places of residence: Elizabeth, New Jersey, USA
Place of death: Congers, New York, USA
Associated Place (for map): New Jersey, USA

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Theater in America : 200 years of plays, players, and productions by Mary C. Henderson

This classic illustrated history is organized around the people who make theater—producers, playwrights, directors and choreographers, actors, designers, architects—which is how I experienced Theater in America when I worked as a lighting designer. All must work together; all have competing and complementary interests. I was acquainted with many of the people mentioned here who worked in the theatre from the 1970s to the 1990s, and it is nice to see their names and remember the triumphs, show more the follies, the disasters. show less

Jan 5, 2019