Dr. Martha S. LoMonaco, PhD.
Every Week, A Broadway Review
The Tamiment Playhouse, 1921-1960
Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies,
No. 45.
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1992
ISBN: 0-313-27996-9
Praise for Every Week:
- Greenwood's "Every Week A Broadway Revue" is a delightful look at the famous
Tamiment Playhouse, where many of today's most talented comedy writers got their
professional start. Author Martha LoMonoco does an excellent job in capturing
the egos and innocence of 1921-1950 summer theater life.
Bnai Brith Life - Drawing largely from archival holdings and personal interviews, this study chronicles a resident summer theater (1921-60) that operated at Camp Tamiment, an adult summer camp in Pennsylvania's Poconos Mountains, supported, until its infrastructure failed, by The Rand School of Social Science, a Socialist Party organ founded in 1906.
. . . the Tamiment Playhouse was unique in developing full-stage productions (revues, book shows, show cases) with resident companies of performing artists and support staff, including writers, composers, directors, and choreographers. It became a major training ground for talent and an outlet for theater, dance, film, and television, helping to develop such disparate talent as Imogene Coca, Danny Kaye, Carol Burnett, Barbara Cook, Larry Kert, and Dick Shawn, as well as writers such as Neil Simon and Woody Allen.
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