The Jitney Players, The Traveling Theater Troupe
The Jitney Players. Billy Rose Theatre Division. Image ID: TH-24201 During the Elizabethan era, traveling troupes of actors would perform in different towns throughout the United Kingdom. In 1923, inspired by these theatrical artists, Horace Bushnell Cheney (1899-1930) and his wife Alice Keating Cheney (1894-1981) established the Jitney Players in the United States. The Tradition of Traveling The Cheneys, along w…