MARY WARNER | The Lady Actress

Jul 31, 202311 min read

Anna Cora Mowatt, Charlotte Cushman, and the Vanishing Ion

PART VI: ACTRESS VS. ACTRESS Originally posted Jan. 24, 2022 [This multi-part series of entries examines Anna Cora Mowatt’s experience...

Jul 30, 202310 min read

Anna 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 29, 202313 min read

Anna Cora Mowatt, Pauline, and Changes of Plan

PART XVIII: THE END BEGINS Originally posted Oct. 4, 2021 [This is a continuation of my multi-part series of entries examining Anna Cora...

Jul 27, 20239 min read

Anna Cora Mowatt and The Lady of Lyons - Part I

THE DARING NOVICE Originally posted May 24, 2021 [This week I’m begining a multi-part series examining Anna Cora Mowatt’s experiences...

Jul 5, 202310 min read

Anna Cora Mowatt, Armand, and the Fast Man

Originally posted Dec. 14, 2020 (Listen to a full cast recording of "Armand" at Librivox) In past entries, I have talked about Mary...

Jul 4, 20236 min read

Anna Cora Mowatt and the Lady Romeos – Part I

Originally published on Nov. 9, 2020 Periodically, theatre historians seem to re-discover Charlotte Cushman. A new volume on her life and...

Jul 4, 202313 min read

The Unsinkable Mrs. Warner

Originally published October 5, 2020 The year 1850 began so well for Mary Warner and Walter Watts. Their careers seemed to be right on...

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, 20237 min read

The Fall of Walter Watts

Originally published Sept. 7, 2020 Doubtlessly, I have given you the impression that the Watts Scandal blew up and broke quickly in the...

Jul 3, 202310 min read

Mr. Warner and Mr. Watts

Originally posted on August 31, 2020 Last week, I ended with a bit of a cliffhanger. I informed you that Robert Warner, husband of...

Jul 3, 202310 min read

Mr. and Mrs. Warner

Originally published August 24, 2023 [Just a quick note before I begin — In order to accommodate the amount of new information that I...

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

Mary Warner of the Marylebone

Originally published Aug. 11, 2020 One doesn’t expect to get breaking news on a story that’s one hundred and seventy years old, but late...

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, 20237 min read

Anna Cora Mowatt and the Cynical Mr. Stirling

Originally Posted on July 17, 2020 If I had written the story of the Watts Scandal as a melodrama and wished to cast it from the pool of...

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...