The First American Theatre
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Description: A history of the earliest theatrical performances in America.
This document was written by Arthur Hornblow and originally published in A History of the Theatre in America, Vol. 1 . Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1919. pp. 21-40. The history of the theatre in America begins early in the Eighteenth Century, about the time the first rumblings were heard of the storm which was to break the ties still holding the Colonies to the mother country.
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| Page title: | The First American Theatre |
| Keywords: | american theatre, williamsburg, Tony Aston, Hallams, Benjamin Colman, Gustavus Vasa, Mat Medley, Samuel Sewall, William Levingston, Charles Stagg |
| Description: | Bitter Puritanical opposition to plays and play-acting. Severe laws passed prohibiting stage entertainment of any kind. Earliest records of theatrical performance in America. Tony Aston, the first actor to appear in New York. Performance in Boston causes a riot. First theatre in America built in Williamsburg, VA. |
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