Charles Wyndham
(1837–1919), comic actor.The great English comedian served as a doctor for the Confederate Army during the Civil War, then later won applause with Lester Wallack's ensemble in such roles ...
Criterion Theatre
London, in Piccadilly Circus. Originally an adjunct to Spiers and Pond's Criterion restaurant, this theatre was built entirely underground. A three-tier auditorium seating 675, it opened in 1874 and ...
Cyril Francis Maude
(1862–1951)English actor-manager. One of the best comic actors of the Edwardian period, Maude was adept at light comedy and in elderly roles. He first appeared in London in 1886 ...
Daniel Frohman
(1851–1940),American manager, who started work as a journalist but in 1880 became business manager of the Madison Square Theatre. He went into independent management in 1885 with his brother ...
Edith Wynne Matthison
(1875–1955)English actress. Matthison began her professional career with Greet's company, playing, among other roles, Portia in The Merchant of Venice and Queen Katherine in Henry VIII, which she ...
Edward Smith Willard
(1853–1915), actor.The English performer, celebrated for his portrayal of villains, made his mark in America as the vengeful potter Cyrus Blenkarn in The Middleman (1890), a role to which ...
Empire Theatre
New York playhouse designed by J. B. McElfatrick for Charles Frohman, completed in 1893 at Broadway and 40th Street, heralding the theatre district's move uptown. Featuring electric lighting and a ...
Herbert Beerbohm Tree
[né(1853–1917), actor and manager.The esteemed English thespian made several American visits, the first in 1895 and the last in 1916. However, he never won the admiration accorded him ...
Hudson Theatre
(New York).One of Manhattan's many theatres stuck in limbo, this classically styled Beaux‐Arts playhouse on West 44th Street is infrequently used as a theatre venue, but its exterior has ...
Johnston Forbes-Robertson
(b. London, 16 Jan. 1853; d. St Margaret's Bay, Dover, Kent, 6 Nov. 1937)Actor–manager. Forbes-Robertson first made a name for himself in Gilbert's Dan'l Druce, Blacksmith (1876). His fine ...
Julia Emilie Neilson
(1868–1957),English actress, wife of Fred Terry, whom she married while they were both appearing in Henry Arthur Jones's The Dancing Girl (1891), in which Julia scored a sensational success. ...
Lena Ashwell
(1872–1957),English actress-manager who made her first appearance in 1891, and scored a great success in 1900 in Henry Arthur Jones's Mrs Dane's Defence, in which she was also seen ...
Margaret Anglin
(b. Ottawa, 3 April 1876; d. Toronto, 7 Jan. 1958)Actress and producer. After years of apprenticeship she won fame as Roxane to Richard Mansfield's Cyrano in 1898, then consolidated ...
Mrs Dane's Defence
A: Henry Arthur Jones Pf: 1900, London Pb: 1900 G: Drama in 4 acts S: Lady Eastney's and Sir Philip Carteret's houses, Sunningwater, near London, c.1900 C: 8m, 4fJames Risby tells his gossipy aunt ...
Mrs Patrick Campbell
1865–1940)British actress.Beatrice Tanner was born in London, daughter of John Tanner and his Italian wife. In 1894 she eloped with Patrick Campbell, who died fighting in the Boer War in 1900 (their ...
Playhouse
London, in Northumberland Avenue. As the Royal Avenue Theatre, holding about 1,500 in four tiers, this opened in 1882 with Offenbach's Madame Favart, the first of a series of light ...
Playhouse Theatre
New York, on West 48th Street, between Broadway and the Avenue of the Americas. Built by William A. Brady, this opened in 1911, and had its first success with Broadhurst's ...
recording and researching theatre
Theatre on the pageThe first English playwright to owe a fair proportion of his wealth to the publication rather than the performance of his plays was the dogged Henry ...
religion
Is a prominent theme in mystery fiction. Whether one recognizes the Old Testament or Greek myth as the source of the first detective stories, the preoccupation is with crime and ...
Rose Coghlan
(1850–1932)American actress, born in England. Coghlan began as a child actor; her early adult career was spent in England and the USA, including a tour with Lydia Thompson in ...
