Jul 3, 202310 minAnna Cora Mowatt and Mary Warner, Grand Dame of the MaryleboneOriginally published August 3, 2020 If the Watts Scandal were a musical or a movie, I would want to play Mary Warner. She may not fit our...
Jul 3, 202310 minAnna Cora Mowatt and The Rag-Picker of ParisOriginally published July 27, 2020 I want to start today’s entry with a complaint about standard volumes of nineteenth century theater...
Jul 3, 20235 minEdward Stirling and the Burning of the OlympicOriginally posted July 20, 2020 The history of drama in the 1800s is punctuated by frequent, disastrous theater fires. I can’t think of a...
Jul 2, 202313 minAnna Cora Mowatt and Walter Watts’ Irish EngagementOriginally posted July 6, 2020 This week I’m going to take a little break from a narrow focus on Anna Cora Mowatt and talk about the one...