Alan Ackerman

Alan Ackerman is an associate professor in the English Department of the University of Toronto, co-editor of Against Theatre: Creative Destructions on the Modernist Stage (forthcoming) and author of The Portable Theater: American Literature and the Nineteenth-Century Stage (1999).

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Betty Comden

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