Rise Up!: Broadway and American Society from 'Angels in America' to 'Hamilton'

Penned by one of America's best—known daily theatre critics and organized chronologically, this lively and readable book tells the story of Broadway's renaissance from the darkest days of the AIDS crisis, via the disaster that was Spiderman: Turn off the Dark through the unparalleled financial, artistic and political success of Lin—Manuel Miranda's Hamilton.

It is the story of the embrace of risk and substance. In so doing, Chris Jones makes the point that the theatre thrived by finally fig...