This Month in Theatre History
235 YEARS AGO (1780) The British Officer Corps finishes its fourth season of plays in New York City, two months longer than the previous seasons. Impressed by the Redcoats' theatrical output, historian George C.D. Odell calls them a repertory "that would tax the resources of Covent Garden or Drury Lane." 175 YEARS AGO (1840) American vaudeville is officially born when Vaudeville Saloon"considered the earliest example…