Tony Vickery

Brief Biography

Dr. Anthony Vickery set out initially to be a sound, set and lighting designer in UVic’s undergraduate program. However, in his third year at the university, he switched to the Honours Theatre History program and became the first student to be awarded the B.A. (Honours) in Theatre History. He has published works in Theatre Survey, The International Journal of Arts Management and has a forthcoming article in Canadian Theatre Research concerning the Shubert Brothers and their operations in Canada prior to the First World War. Recently, he contributed a chapter to the forthcoming anthology Angels in the American Theatre (Southern Illinois University Press) on the business organization of the cross-media conglomerate Clear Channel Communications.

Tony's research interests include the theories of theatrical administration and finance, theatre in the United States and Canada in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, spectacular theatre, and melodrama. He is currently writing an economic history of commercial theatre in North America, circa 1850 to the present day. In addition, Tony continues to engage in technical work as a member of I.A.T.S.E. Local 168 in Victoria.

Recent scholarly publications

• “Accounting Fraud at Live Entertainment Canada, Incorporated, 1993-1998.” International Journal of Arts Management Volume 7, Number 2 (Winter 2005):15-26.
•  “David L. Rinear’s Stage, Page, Scandals, and Vandals: William E. Burton and 19th-century American Theatre.” Book review. Theatre Survey. Volume 46, Number 2 (November 2005): 335-7.
• “‘We Must Have Canada Above Everything Else:’ Shubert and Syndicate Involvement in Touring in Canada, 1896 -1919,” Theatre Research in Canada (Forthcoming in 2006).
• “The Cambridge Companion to Victorian and Edwardian Theatre, edited by Kerry Powell.” Book Review.  Theatre Survey (2006)
• “Static in the Signal: Clear Channel Communications and Theatre in the United States.” Angels in the American Theatre. Ed. Robert A. Schanke. (Southern Illinois University Press, 2006)