Laurence Maslon is an arts professor at the Graduate Acting Program at New York University’s Tisch School of. the Arts. He appeared at Westport Country Playhouse in an event in 2023 celebrating his most recent book, I’ll Drink to That!: Broadway Cocktails, published by Insight Editions He is also the host and producer of the radio series, Broadway to Main Street on the NPR radio station WLIW-FM. The program is winner of the 2019 ASCAP Foundation/Deems Taylor Award for Radio Broadcast. He is the writer and coproducer of the American Masters documentary, Sammy Davis, Jr.: I’ve Gotta Be Me, broadcast on PBS in 2019, as well as the American Masters documentary Richard Rodgers: The Sweetest Sounds in 2001 and with producer/director Michael Kantor, he cowrote two episodes of the Emmy-winning Broadway: The American Musical as well as its companion volume. His history of recorded music from Broadway, Broadway to Main Street: How Show Music Enchanted America, was published by Oxford University Press. Other books include editing the Library of America’s collection American Musicals (1927-1969), containing sixteen essential libretti. He served on the nominating committee for the Tony Awards from 2007 to 2010. He was written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the New Yorker, Opera News, Stagebill, and American Theatre. Maslon’s next project is Hitchcocktails: Mixtures of Suspense, to be published by Insight in 2025.
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