An 18th-century theater token offering free shows for life to a Bristol, United Kingdom, theater was auctioned off Saturday. The theater, still extant, plans to honor the token’s offer if the coin is ...
In the heyday of David Garrick’s management of Drury-Lane Theatre (1747–76), numerically coded charts provided playgoers with comparative ratings of their favorite performers. The arithmetical scale ...
To walled, moat-bound Colonial Charles Town (named for the Restoration’s merry monarch) in the Province of Carolina there came in 1733 a group of strolling players led by an efficient, talented ...