FRIGID New York and Peculiar Works Project will present In Memoriam: Astor Place Riots 1849 a special event to commemorate the 175th anniversary of the 1849 Astor Place Riots at UNDER St. Marks (94 St ...
This week the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, announced that its Digital Image Collection is now under a Creative Commons Attribution–ShareAlike 4.0 International License. That trove of ...
On this day, May 10, in 1849, a riot broke out at the Astor Opera House in New York City over a dispute between actors Edwin Forrest and William C. Macready, killing at least 22. Forrest, the first ...
May 10, 1849, New York City: the bitter theatrical rivalry between two of the world's best Shakespearean actors American Edwin Forrest and British William Charles Macready reached a crescendo.But its ...