by gwffoundation | Jun 6, 2018 | Historic Kenmore, Lives & Legacies, Theater and Theater History
Theatre is one of America’s most popular and thriving art forms. It has been a part of American culture since the early part of the 18th century. The development of theatre in the earliest American colonies in New England was prohibited because of those colonists’...
by gwffoundation | May 25, 2016 | Historic Kenmore, Lives & Legacies, Theater and Theater History
Editor’s Note: At the annual Shakespeare on the Lawn performances this June, Historic Kenmore will present Hamlet. The following blog post looks at the actors who played the most famous of Shakespeare’s roles during the 18th century. Details about...
by gwffoundation | Aug 5, 2015 | Lives & Legacies, Theater and Theater History
Virginia celebrates a proud theatrical history. It boasts the first recorded performance of a play in all the colonies. It also claims the first permanent playhouse and the first evening of professional theatre. That first evening was in September of 1752 and was...
