Elizabeth L. Wollman is Professor of Music at Baruch College, City University of New York, and a member of the doctoral faculty in the theatre department at the CUNY Graduate Center. She has written extensively about musicals that have run off-, off-off- and on Broadway since the late 1950s, with emphasis on their relationship to popular music, the cultural history of New York City, and American social, political, and economic movements. Wollman is the author of the books The Theater Will Rock: A History of the Rock Musical, from Hair to Hedwig (University of Michigan Press, 2006), Hard Times: The Adult Musical in 1970s New York City (Oxford University Press, 2012), and The Critical Companion to the American Stage Musical (Bloomsbury/Methuen, 2017). Her co-edited volume, The Routledge Companion to the Post-1970 American Stage Musical, which she co-edited with Jessica Sternfeld, was released in September 2019. Her current work focuses on both the historiography of the contemporary American musical theater, and on commercial failure.