Guest Blog by Ken Ross Twenty years or so ago, when I was working as an audiobook producer, I got to know an actor in his mid-sixties. At the start of his career, in the nineteen-fifties, he had worked with a veteran American actor who told him the following story. In the mid-thirties Roosevelt had… Read more »
Category: Theatre History
Puritan Lockdown
On this day … “23 CAR. I. … Die Sabbati, 16 Octobris, 1647. … Suppressing Stage Plays, &c. For the better Suppression of Stage-plays, Interludes, and Common Players; It is this Day Ordered, by the [blank space] and Commons, in Parliament assembled, That the Lord Mayor, Justices of the Peace, and Sheriffs of the Cities… Read more »