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Barrett, Wilson Reference library
Michael R. Booth
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance
(1846–1904)
English actor-manager. Of powerful voice and physique, Barrett established a reputation playing melodramatic heroes such as Harold Armytage in ...
Barrett, Wilson Reference library
The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre (2 ed.)
(1846–1904),
English actormanager, who had few equals in the melodramatic plays fashionable in his time, being strikingly handsome and having a resonant voice, though not tall. ...
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Henry Arthur Jones
(1851–1929),dramatist, achieved success with The Silver King (1882). A friend and contemporary of Pinero, Jones did much to re‐establish serious themes in the theatre. As a young man he was greatly ...
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 ...
Knickerbocker Theatre
New York, on Broadway, at the north-east corner of 38th Street. As Abbey's Theatre, named after its first manager, it opened in 1893 with Irving and Ellen Terry in Tennyson's ...
Lillah McCarthy
(1875–1960)English actress and manager. After eight years of world touring with Wilson Barrett, she created the role of Ann Whitefield in Shaw's Man and Superman at the Royal Court ...
Lyric Theatre
New York, on West 42nd Street. This opened in 1903 with Old Heidelberg, starring Richard Mansfield, who for some years returned regularly with his company, the theatre being used also ...
Princess's Theatre
A playhouse in Oxford Street, London. A converted bazaar, the Princess's began as a venue for concerts and opera. It became a significant theatre under Charles Kean (1850–9), who presented ...
Royal Lyceum Theatre
The first building constructed for exclusive theatrical use in Ontario, the Lyceum in Toronto provided a space for drama, opera, minstrel, and variety shows between its opening in 1848 and ...
Star Theatre
New York, at the north-east corner of Broadway and 13th Street. It was opened by the elder James Wallack in 1861, though he never himself appeared there, and after his ...
W. G. Wills
(1828–91)Irish dramatist, novelist and portrait painter, born in Kilkenny and educated at Trinity College, Dublin, whose plays revived the popularity of verse drama in Victorian London. The success ...
