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Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Long Before ‘Hamilton’ Brouhaha, Theater Was Anything but Polite by Elizabeth Maddock Dillon

Attending the theater before 1850 or so in the United States was far more akin to attending a football game today than to attending contemporary theater.

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