Broadway and Beyond

By Bonnie Comley

Every night on Broadway, some 350 people bring a single show to life. Audiences leave talking about the star. Almost no one leaves talking about the person who shaped every moment they just watched-- and for more than a century, one organization has made it its business to find those people, pay them, and put them in the room.

Founded in 1910 by a group of women outside Chicago who were tired of bad theater, the Drama League has grown into the largest funder and accelerator of directing talent in the world. Its alumni have won ten Tony Awards and twenty-eight Obies, and more than a hundred of them now lead theaters across five continents. When Hamilton was still playing downtown at the Public, Drama League voters named it Outstanding Production of a Musical-- a year before the rest of the world caught up.

Bonnie Comley, Tony-winning producer, founder of BroadwayHD, and President of the Drama League's Board, tells the story from the inside: the programs that turn early-career directors into working ones, and a history most theater lovers have never heard, from the fight against New York's theater censors in the 1920s to the 1967 board meeting where the Drama

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1963549562
• ISBN13: 9781963549560
• Release Date: May 2027
• Publisher: Broad Book Press
• Length: 280 Pages