Tag: Shakespeare Festivals
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This project sits at the intersection of community theatre, rural cultural history, and queer history. Presented as an open-access, public-facing history, it seeks to recover the forgotten stories, overlooked people, and local artistic movements that helped shape American cultural life.
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So what was it, a stage or a forest? Some even believed that maybe, just maybe, the toddler actors were not children at all but, rather, fairies.
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Subscribe to Community Arts Uncovered to learn how Gilmor’s decision to venture out on his own would impact film and theatre in the United States.
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Gilmor Brown’s days absorbing knowledge and culture from Chicago’s literati at glamorous teas helped get him his job with Ben Greet’s company and subsequent employment, but they could not have prepared him for the road.
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Gilmor Brown’s dramatic work became incredibly consequential, but is still rarely acknowledged in theatre history. More so, Gilmor’s educational efforts would go on to directly impact television and film luminaries, like Rue McClanahan, Leonard Nimoy, Dustin Hoffman, Sally Struthers, and…
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100 years ago today, a prolific and remarkable era in history ended in Kinsley, Kansas. On June 1, 1926, one of Kinsley’s most well-known native sons, Charles Rufus Edwards, passed away; he was only forty-five years old. In his short…
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How a brief reference in a doctoral dissertation tucked away in the labyrinthine stacks at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California, led me to Charlie Edwards’ story, six years ago, would have been easy to forget if it had…
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When I arrived at the Huntington Library on the third of April 2019, I was searching for details to include in my dissertation, Grassroots Shakespeare, on amateur Shakespeare performance in the United States.
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