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• Show Boat (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1926), by Edna Ferber (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• A Treatise on Theatres (London: Printed for the author, 1790), by George Saunders (page images at HathiTrust)

• Gilbert Hunt, the City Blacksmith, by Philip Barrett (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Shakespearean Playhouses: A History of English Theatres From the Beginnings to the Restoration (Boston et al: Houghton Mifflin Co., c1917), by Joseph Quincy Adams (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Elizabethan Stage (4 volumes; Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1923), by E. K. Chambers
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • Volume III: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • Volume IV: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML

• Music Hall and Modernity: The Late-Victorian Discovery of Popular Culture (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2004), by Barry J. Faulk (PDF at ohioswallow.com)

• The Staging of the "Miracles de Nostre Dame Par Personnages" of MS. Cangé (New York: Institute of French Studies, Columbia University, c1933), by Dorothy Penn (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Theatre (Corinth series v2; Princeton, NJ: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1952), by Richard Stillwell (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Public Dance Halls of Chicago, by Louise de Koven Bowen (HTML and page images at LOC)

• Behind the Scenes: Yeats, Horniman, and the Struggle for the Abbey Theatre (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by Adrian Frazier (HTML at UC Press)

• Il Teatro Greco di Siracusa (in Italian; Milan and Rome: Bestetti e Tumminelli, 1923), by G. E. Rizzo
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Il Teatro Greco di Siracusa (in Italian; Milan and Rome: Bestetti e Tumminelli, 1923), by G. E. Rizzo
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Lady Dicks and Lesbian Brothers: Staging the Unimaginable at the WOW Café Theatre (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2010), by Kate Davy (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• Designs by Inigo Jones for Masques and Plays at Court: A Descriptive Catalogue of Drawings for Scenery and Costumes Mainly in the Collection of His Grace the Duke of Devonshire, K. G. (Oxford: Printed for the Walpole and Malone Societies at the University Press, 1924), by Inigo Jones, ed. by Percy Simpson and C. F. Bell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Miracle in the Evening: An Autobiography (Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Co., 1960), by Norman Bel Geddes, ed. by William Kelley (page images at HathiTrust)

• Reel Time: Movie Exhibitors and Movie Audiences in Prairie Canada, 1896 to 1986 (c2013), by R. M. Seiler and Tamara Palmer Seiler (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• Cinemas and Cinema-Going in the United Kingdom: Decades of Decline, 1945-65 (London: University of London Press, c2020), by Sam Manning (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)

• The Motion Picture Chums at Seaside Park: or, The Rival Photo Theatres of the Boardwalk (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1913), by Victor Appleton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Reel Time: Movie Exhibitors and Movie Audiences in Prairie Canada, 1896 to 1986 (c2013), by R. M. Seiler and Tamara Palmer Seiler (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• Music Hall and Modernity: The Late-Victorian Discovery of Popular Culture (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2004), by Barry J. Faulk (PDF at ohioswallow.com)