Smith, Cecil

The Oxford Companion to American Theatre | 2004 | 612 words | Copyright

Smith, Cecil (1906–56), critic and author. After studying at Harvard he served for many years on the faculty of the University of Chicago. At the same time, he was music critic and sometime drama critic for the Chicago Tribune. Smith was also associated with other publications, including Theatre Arts Monthly, of which he was associate editor and for which he generally wrote about musicals. His Musical Comedy in America (1950) was the first serious study of the whole history of our musical theatre and remains a perceptive, eminently readable work. It was brought up to date by Glenn Litton in 1981.

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