Product Description: (Applause Books). From his unlikely start as a Jewish All-American and "three-letter man" in segregated Baltimore, Merle Debuskey was for fifty years beginning just after World War II and ending in the mid-'90s New York theater's top publicist, handling more Broadway shows than any press agent in Broadway history...read more

Product Description: You don’t have to be involved in a play to be a Broadway enthusiast. In On Broadway, Men Still Wear Hats, the lives of some of theater’s lesser known contributors are brought to light: an accountant who gave up number crunching to write Internet theater reviews full-time, an amateur photographer who went from groupie to Tony Award nominee, a Texas ballet dancer turned kosher play seller, a Glasgow high school dropout who became Broadway’s favorite restauranteur...read more

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