Today is the birthday of William Macready (1793-1873). Macready is best known in this country for being the unwitting trigger of the Astor Place Riots of 1849, an international embarrassment in which New York’s great unwashed (think of Daniel Day-Lewis in The Gangs of New York) were up in arms over that theatre’s presentation of [...]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:09AM on March 3, 2013