HAMLET | The Lady Actress

Jul 31, 202321 min read

Anna Cora Mowatt and Charlotte Cushman’s Ion

PART V: LADY ION Originally posted Jan. 10, 2022 [This multi-part series of entries examines Anna Cora Mowatt’s experience playing the...

Jul 3, 20239 min read

Warner/Macready and “Hamlet” at the Marylebone

Originally published August 17, 2020 As you may intuit from the title of this week’s blog, I am not yet ready to wrap up my series on...

Jul 3, 202310 min read

Anna Cora Mowatt and Mary Warner, Grand Dame of the Marylebone

Originally 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 2, 202311 min read

Anna Cora Mowatt, Astor Place, and the Silver Vase

Originally published May 5, 2020 [This blog is also available in an abridged video format.] May 10, 2020 marked the 171 anniversary of...