Oct 9, 202312 min readAnna Cora Mowatt, Polkamania, and “The Serious Family” - Part IPART ONE - SERIOUSLY CLASSIC The spring of 1852 was one of the saddest, most challenging times of Anna Cora Mowatt’s life. Her husband,...
Jul 30, 202313 min readAnna Cora Mowatt and Ellen Tree’s IonPART III: THE GRAND EXPERIMENT BEGINS [This multi-part series of entries examines Anna Cora Mowatt’s experience playing the lead role in...
Jul 30, 202310 min readAnna Cora Mowatt and “Ion”PART I: THE PLAY BEGINS WITH A PUNCH Originally posted Nov. 15, 2021 [This multi-part series of entries examines Anna Cora Mowatt’s...
Jul 3, 202311 min readMr. Watts and the ExtortionistsOriginally posted Sept. 21, 2020 When I said that Walter Watts had a relatively good reputation for London theatrical manager of the...
Jul 3, 202310 min readAnna 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...
