The Lost Plays of Walter Watts – The First Night of My Marriage
A MERRY MANUSCRIPT WITH A BIT OF A MYSTERY Originally posted April 18, 2022 Of all the plays authored by Walter Watts I have written...
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Jul 4, 202312 min read
Mr. and Mrs. Warner and Unromantic Loose Ends
Originally published Sept. 28, 2020 After more than a month of extending and vamping, I am going to return to what was supposed to have...
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 3, 202310 min read
Anna Cora Mowatt and The Rag-Picker of Paris
Originally published July 27, 2020 I want to start today’s entry with a complaint about standard volumes of nineteenth century theater...
Jul 2, 202313 min read
Anna Cora Mowatt and Walter Watts’ Irish Engagement
Originally 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...
Jul 2, 20236 min read
Anna Cora Mowatt, Armand, and the Silver Vase
Originally published May 8, 2020 (Listen to an audio recording of the play "Armand" here.) Inasmuch as Anna Cora Mowatt is known in the...
Jul 2, 20238 min read
Anna Cora Mowatt and the Luck of the Irish
Originally published March 9, 2020 Although he’s been dead for almost one hundred and seventy years now, Walter Watts does not cease to...
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