History Hiding Around Broadway

History Hiding Around Broadway: Backstage Lore, Secrets and Surprises from New Yorks Famed Theater District takes readers on a lively tour behind the marquees to reveal the hidden architecture, forgotten scandals, ghost stories, and colorful personalities that shaped Broadway beyond the footlights. Combining archival research with on the-ground reporting, the book uncovers secret passageways, vanished theaters, union battles, speakeasy haunts, and the quirky rituals of stagehands and stars, showing how ordinary alleys and basements hold extraordinary histories. Rich with anecdotes and surprising discoveries, it is both a love letter to theater lovers and a revelatory guide for anyone who wants to see New Yorks cultural heart from a new vantage point.