ALMANAC
Feb 25, 2020
1 minute
BY THE OSCAR G. BROCKETT CENTER FOR THEATRE HISTORY AND CRITICISM
260 YEARS AGO (1760)
ollowing moves prompted by the Colonies’ frequent bans on theatre, the Douglass Company—the merger of David Douglass’s troupe and the British Hallam family’s—relocates to Maryland. In Annapolis, Douglass builds opens the New Theatre; one review calls the attendees “a polite and numerous audience, who all express’d a general satisfaction.”
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