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Southwark Theatre

Subject: Performing arts, Theatre

The first permanent playhouse in America, the Southwark was built in 1766 by David Douglass in Philadelphia. Though located outside the city limits, its opening brought a lengthy ...

Southwark Theatre

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Amelia Howe Kritzer

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2005
Subject:
Performing arts, Theatre
Length:
107 words

... Theatre The first permanent playhouse in America, the Southwark was built in 1766 by David Douglass in Philadelphia . Though located outside the city limits, its opening brought a lengthy anti-theatrical campaign. It was roughly constructed of brick and wood, painted red, and lit by oil lamps. In 1767 it presented Thomas Godfrey 's The Prince of Parthia , the first play by an American to be professionally produced. It served the American Company throughout the 1790s. Following a fire in 1821 , it became a distillery, prompting Dunlap 's...

Southwark Theatre

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The Oxford Companion to American Theatre (3 ed.)

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2004
Subject:
Performing arts, Theatre
Length:
112 words

... Theatre (Philadelphia). Sometimes called the South Street Theatre, it was the first permanent playhouse erected in America. Because of prejudices against theatricals it was built just outside what was then the center of the city. The structure, largely of brick, was painted red and was lit by oil. Opened in 1766 by Douglass and his American Company and later managed by his successors, Lewis Hallam Jr. and John Henry , it housed the first performance of a professionally produced American play, The Prince of Parthia , in 1767 . It remained...

Southwark Theatre

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The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre (2 ed.)

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2003
Subject:
Performing arts, Theatre
Length:
189 words

... Theatre , the first permanent play-house to be erected in Philadelphia , and possibly the first in America. A rough brick and wood structure painted red, its stage lit by oil lamps, it was built in 1766 by David Douglass , manager of the American Company , and opened on 12 Nov. with Vanbrugh 's The Provoked Wife and Isaac Bickerstaffe 's Thomas and Sally . Early in 1767 it saw the production for one night of Godfrey 's The Prince of Parthia , the first American play to be staged professionally. During the War of Independence the building,...

Southwark Theatre

Southwark Theatre  

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Performing arts, Theatre
The first permanent playhouse in America, the Southwark was built in 1766 by David Douglass in Philadelphia. Though located outside the city limits, its opening brought a lengthy anti-theatrical ...
South Street Theatre

South Street Theatre  

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Subject:
Performing arts, Theatre
Philadelphia, see SOUTH-WARK THEATRE.
Prince of Parthia

Prince of Parthia  

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Subject:
Performing arts, Theatre
(1767),a tragedy by Thomas Godfrey. [Southwark Theatre (Philadelphia), 1 perf.] Vardanes (Mr. Tomlinson) plots to turn his father, King Artabanus (David Douglass), against his brother Arsaces (Lewis ...
globe

globe  

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A globe is the emblem of St Louis.globe of fire the emblem of St Martin of Tours.Globe Theatre a theatre in Southwark, London, erected in 1599, where many of Shakespeare's plays were first publicly ...
Charles Ciceri

Charles Ciceri  

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Performing arts, Theatre
(fl. late 18th century), scenic designer.Called “the first full‐fledged scenic artist in America,” he was born in Milan and educated in Paris where he learned drawing. Ciceri came to ...
Thomas Wall

Thomas Wall  

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Performing arts, Theatre
(fl. mid‐18th century), actor.This performer and sometimes manager first appears in American records when he performed with David Douglass's American Company in Charleston in 1766. He was advertised ...
William Gardiner

William Gardiner  

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Literature, Shakespeare studies and criticism
(1531–97),a wealthy and corrupt justice of the peace in Southwark. In 1596 Francis Langley, owner of the Swan theatre, accused him and his stepson William Wayte (d. 1603) of ...
John Henry

John Henry  

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Performing arts, Theatre
(1738–94)Irish actor. Despite a promising debut at Covent Garden in 1762, Henry soon left London for Jamaica where he married Helen Storer and perhaps acted. In 1766 he joined ...
David Douglass

David Douglass  

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Performing arts, Theatre
(?–1786),American actor-manager who in 1758 met and married the widow of the elder Hallam in Jamaica. Amalgamating his actors with hers, he took them back to New York, named ...
John Edmund Harwood

John Edmund Harwood  

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Performing arts, Theatre
(1771–1809),American actor. He was for some years at the Chestnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia, under Wignell, and was with the company when it appeared in New York in 1797, being ...
Thomas Godfrey

Thomas Godfrey  

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Performing arts, Theatre
(1736–63),American dramatist, who became the first playwright of the United States when in 1759 he wrote a tragedy entitled The Prince of Parthia which he sent to Douglass, manager ...
John Hodgkinson

John Hodgkinson  

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(1767–1805),English actor, who had had some experience in the provinces when in 1792 he accepted an offer from John Henry to join the American Company at the John Street ...
Hope Theatre

Hope Theatre  

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Performing arts, Theatre
On Bankside, Southwark, built in 1613 by Henslowe as a bear‐garden, with a movable stage on which plays could be performed. Jonson's Bartholomew Fair was acted there in 1614.
John Street Theatre

John Street Theatre  

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Performing arts, Theatre
Built by David Douglass in 1767, as part of a chain of theatres for the American Company, it was New York's leading playhouse for 30 years. Located near Broadway, it ...
Lewis Hallam, Jr.

Lewis Hallam, Jr.  

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Performing arts, Theatre
(c.1740–1808),son of the above, who went with his father to Williamsburg in 1752 and in 1757 became leading man of the combined companies of his mother and stepfather, going ...
John Durang

John Durang  

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Performing arts, Dance
(1768–1822), dancer, acrobat, puppeteer, and actor.He was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, but grew up in York, where he attended the German school attached to Christ Lutheran Church, and in ...
Globe Theatre

Globe Theatre  

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Literature, Shakespeare studies and criticism
The Burbages' theatre on Bankside in Southwark, erected in 1599. It was a large twenty‐sided building, thatched, with the centre open to the sky. The thatch caught fire in 1613, owing to the ...

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