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Douglass, David
Douglass, David (?–1786), American actor-manager who in 1758 met and married the widow of the elder Hallam in Jamaica. Amalgamating his actors with hers, he took them back to New York, named them the American Company, and built first a temporary theatre on Cruger's Wharf, another in Beekman Street, and finally a permanent one in John Street. He was also responsible for the erection of the first permanent theatre in the United States, the Southwark in Philadelphia, and for theatres in a number of towns which he visited. Under Douglass's management the American Company staged Thomas Godfrey's The Prince of Parthia (1767), the first American play to have a professional production.
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PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Douglass, David." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Douglass, David." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O79-DouglassDavid.html PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Douglass, David." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O79-DouglassDavid.html |
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