William Gill (dramatist), the Glossary
William Gill, also known as William Bain Gill, William B. Gill, and W. B. Gill, (10 May 1842, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland – 1 April 1919, Schenectady, New York) was a British North American born Australian playwright, actor, theatre critic, journalist, and theatre manager.[1]
Table of Contents
163 relations: Adonis (musical), Albany, New York, Alice Harrison, American Civil War, Anne Lockhart (actress), Arch Street Theatre, Arrah-na-Pogue, Australasia, Australia, Australian gold rushes, Bendigo, Black Hills gold rush, Black-Eyed Susan, Bob Fitzsimmons, Broadway theatre, Burlesque, Castlemaine, Victoria, Charles Dudley Warner, Charles Kean, Charles Reade, Chicago Opera House, Christmas Eve, Colorectal cancer, Corinne Kimball, Cramond, Dion Boucicault, Dora Wiley, Drag (entertainment), Ebenezer G. B. Holder, Edward E. Rice, Elizabeth, New Jersey, Emma Howson, Farce, Fifth Avenue Theatre, Fourteenth Street Theatre, François de Noailles, Francis Wilson (actor), Fred J. Eustis, G. B. W. Lewis, General Electric Company, Geneviève de Brabant, George Coppin, George Fawcett Rowe, George H. Jessop, George W. Munroe, Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, Gilded Age, Globe Theatre (Boston, 1871), Grand Opera House (Manhattan), Grand Opera House (St. Louis), ... Expand index (113 more) »
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Adonis (musical)
Adonis is a musical burlesque in two acts with both book and lyrics by William Gill that is a spoof of the Pygmalion myth.
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Albany, New York
Albany is the capital and oldest city in the U.S. state of New York, and the seat of and most populous city in Albany County.
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Alice Harrison
Alice Harrison (c. 1849 – May 3, 1896) was a 19th-century stage actress.
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American Civil War
The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.
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Anne Lockhart (actress)
Anne Lockhart (born Anne Kathleen Maloney; September 6, 1953) is an American actress.
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Arch Street Theatre
The Arch Street Theatre, popularly referred to as The Arch, was one of three Philadelphia-based theaters for plays during the 19th century; the other two were the Walnut Street Theatre and the Chestnut Street Theatre.
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Arrah-na-Pogue
Arrah-na-Pogue, also known as Arrah-na-Pogue; or the Wicklow Wedding, is a play in 3 acts by Dion Boucicault.
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Australasia
Australasia is a subregion of Oceania, comprising Australia, New Zealand, and some neighbouring islands in the Pacific Ocean.
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Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.
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Australian gold rushes
During the Australian gold rushes, starting in 1851, significant numbers of workers moved from elsewhere in Australia and overseas to where gold had been discovered.
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Bendigo
Bendigo is a city in Victoria, Australia, located in the Bendigo Valley near the geographical centre of the state and approximately north-west of Melbourne, the state capital.
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Black Hills gold rush
The Black Hills gold rush took place in Dakota Territory in the United States.
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Black-Eyed Susan
Black-Eyed Susan; or, All in the Downs is a comic play in three acts by Douglas Jerrold.
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Bob Fitzsimmons
Robert James Fitzsimmons (26 May 1862 – 22 October 1917) was a British professional boxer who was the sport's first three-division world champion.
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Broadway theatre
Broadway theatre,Although theater is generally the spelling for this common noun in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many of the extant or closed Broadway venues use or used the spelling Theatre as the proper noun in their names.
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Burlesque
A burlesque is a literary, dramatic or musical work intended to cause laughter by caricaturing the manner or spirit of serious works, or by ludicrous treatment of their subjects.
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Castlemaine, Victoria
Castlemaine (non-locally also) is a town in west central Victoria, Australia, in the Goldfields region about 120 kilometres (75 miles) northwest by road from Melbourne and about 40 kilometres (25 miles) from the major provincial centre of Bendigo.
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Charles Dudley Warner
Charles Dudley Warner (September 12, 1829 – October 20, 1900) was an American essayist, novelist, and friend of Mark Twain, with whom he co-authored the novel The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today.
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Charles Kean
Charles John Kean (18 January 181122 January 1868) was an Irish-born English actor and theatre manager, best known for his revivals of Shakespearean plays.
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Charles Reade
Charles Reade (8 June 1814 – 11 April 1884) was a British novelist and dramatist, best known for The Cloister and the Hearth.
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Chicago Opera House
The Chicago Opera House was a theater complex in Chicago, Illinois, designed by the architectural firm of Cobb and Frost.
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Christmas Eve
Christmas Eve is the evening or entire day before Christmas Day, the festival commemorating the birth of Jesus.
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Colorectal cancer
Colorectal cancer (CRC), also known as bowel cancer, colon cancer, or rectal cancer, is the development of cancer from the colon or rectum (parts of the large intestine).
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Corinne Kimball
Corinne Kimball (24 December 1873 – 1937) was an American actress.
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Cramond
Cramond Village (Cair Amain) is a village and suburb in the north-west of Edinburgh, Scotland, at the mouth of the River Almond where it enters the Firth of Forth.
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Dion Boucicault
Dionysius Lardner "Dion" Boucicault (né Boursiquot; 26 December 1820 – 18 September 1890) was an Irish actor and playwright famed for his melodramas.
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Dora Wiley
Dora Wiley (1852 or 1853 – 2 November 1924) was an American soprano who performed in operas and concerts in the United States, England, and Australia during the last three decades of the 19th century.
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Drag (entertainment)
Drag is a performance of exaggerated femininity, masculinity, or other forms of gender expression, usually for entertainment purposes.
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Ebenezer G. B. Holder
Ebenezer G. B. Holder (c. 1840 - June 19, 1879) was an American minstrel performer, composer, and songwriter.
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Edward E. Rice
Edward Everett Rice (December 21, 1847 – November 16, 1924) was an American musical theatre composer and producer active during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known as a pioneer of American musical theatre, who introduced to Broadway Clorindy, a musical by African-American writers with African-American performers.
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Elizabeth, New Jersey
Elizabeth is a city in and the county seat of Union County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.
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Emma Howson
Emma Howson (28 March 1844 – 28 May 1928) was an Australian opera singer and actress primarily known as the creator of the principal soprano role of Josephine in the Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore.
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Farce
Farce is a comedy that seeks to entertain an audience through situations that are highly exaggerated, extravagant, ridiculous, absurd, and improbable.
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Fifth Avenue Theatre
The Fifth Avenue Theatre was a Broadway theatre in Manhattan, New York City, United States, at 31 West 28th Street and Broadway (1185 Broadway).
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Fourteenth Street Theatre
The Fourteenth Street Theatre was a New York City theatre located at 107 West 14th Street just west of Sixth Avenue.
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François de Noailles
François de Noailles, (2 July 1519 – 19 September 1585) Papal Prothonotary, made Bishop of Dax in 1556, was French ambassador in Venice in the 1560s, and French ambassador of Charles IX to the Ottoman Empire from 1571 to 1575.
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Francis Wilson (actor)
Francis Wilson (February 7, 1854 – October 7, 1935) was an American actor and founding president of the Actors' Equity Association.
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Fred J. Eustis
Frederick J. Eustis, sometime referred to as F. J. Eustis, (c. 1858, in Boston, Massachusetts – March 28, 1912, in Toronto, Canada) was an American composer, conductor, and theatre director.
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G. B. W. Lewis
George Benjamin William Lewis (19 November 1818 – 18 July 1906) commonly referred to as G. B. W. Lewis, or G. B. Lewis, was an English circus performer, later a circus and theatre entrepreneur in Australia. William Gill (dramatist) and G. B. W. Lewis are Australian theatre managers and producers.
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General Electric Company
The General Electric Company (GEC) was a major British industrial conglomerate involved in consumer and defence electronics, communications, and engineering.
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Geneviève de Brabant
Geneviève de Brabant is an opéra bouffe, or operetta, by Jacques Offenbach, first performed in Paris in 1859.
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George Coppin
George Selth Coppin (8 April 1819 – 14 March 1906) was a comic actor, a theatrical entrepreneur, a politician and a philanthropist, active in Australia. William Gill (dramatist) and George Coppin are Australian theatre managers and producers.
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George Fawcett Rowe
George Curtis Fawcett Rowe (24 July 1832 – 29 August 1889), was an English actor, manager and dramatist, whose career began in Australia as George Fawcett; later he was billed as George F. Rowe and worked in Britain and America, where he died. William Gill (dramatist) and George Fawcett Rowe are Australian theatre managers and producers.
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George H. Jessop
George Henry Jessop (1852 – 21 March 1915) was an Irish playwright, librettist, journalist, and novelist.
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George W. Munroe
George W. Munroe (1857 – January 29, 1932) was an American actor and comedian who specialized in female impersonation.
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Gilbert Abbott à Beckett
Gilbert Abbott à Beckett (9 January 1811 – 30 August 1856) was an English humorist.
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Gilded Age
In United States history, the Gilded Age is described as the period from about the late 1870s to the late 1890s, which occurred between the Reconstruction Era and the Progressive Era.
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Globe Theatre (Boston, 1871)
The Globe Theatre (est.1871) was a playhouse in Boston, Massachusetts, in the 19th century.
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Grand Opera House (Manhattan)
Pike's Opera House, later renamed the Grand Opera House, was a theater in New York City on the northwest corner of 8th Avenue and 23rd Street, in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan.
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Grand Opera House (St. Louis)
The Grand Opera House was the name of two theatres located in St. Louis, Missouri on the same property on the south side of Market Street between Broadway and Sixth Streets.
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Gus Williams (vaudeville)
Gustave Wilhelm Leweck Jr. (July 19, 1848 – January 16, 1915) was an American comedian and songwriter.
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Gustave Kerker
Gustave Adolph Kerker, sometimes given as Gustav or Gustavus Kerker, (February 28, 1857 – June 29, 1923) was a Kingdom of Prussia-born composer and conductor who spent most of his life in the United States.
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Gustavus Vaughan Brooke
Gustavus Vaughan Brooke (25 April 1818 – 11 January 1866), commonly referred to as G. V. Brooke, was an Irish stage actor who enjoyed success in Ireland, England, and Australia.
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H.M.S. Pinafore
H.M.S. Pinafore; or, The Lass That Loved a Sailor is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and a libretto by W. S. Gilbert.
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Hamlet
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, usually shortened to Hamlet, is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601.
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Hattie Starr
Hattie Starr was an American songwriter popular in the late 19th and early 20th century.
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Haymarket Theatre, Melbourne
The Haymarket Theatre, or Royal Haymarket Theatre was a live theatre built by George Coppin in the Haymarket district of Melbourne, Australia in 1862 and was destroyed by fire in 1871.
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Henry E. Dixey
Henry E. Dixey (born Henry E. Dixon; January 6, 1859 – February 25, 1943) was an American actor and theatre producer.
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Henry Edwards (entomologist)
Henry Edwards (27 August 1827 – 9 June 1891) was an English stage actor, writer and entomologist who gained fame in Australia, San Francisco and New York City for his theatre work.
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Henry Irving
Sir Henry Irving (6 February 1838 – 13 October 1905), christened John Henry Brodribb, sometimes known as J. H. Irving, was an English stage actor in the Victorian era, known as an actor-manager because he took complete responsibility (supervision of sets, lighting, direction, casting, as well as playing the leading roles) for season after season at the West End's Lyceum Theatre, establishing himself and his company as representative of English classical theatre.
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Henry James Byron
Henry James Byron (8 January 1835 – 11 April 1884) was a prolific English dramatist, as well as an editor, journalist, director, theatre manager, novelist and actor.
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Herald Square Theatre
The Herald Square Theatre was a Broadway theatre in Manhattan, New York City, built in 1883 and closed in 1914.
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Hill End, New South Wales
Hill End is a former gold mining town in New South Wales, Australia.
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Hill station
A hill station is a town located at a higher elevation than the nearby plain or valley.
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Holliday Street Theater
The Holliday Street Theater also known as the New Theatre, New Holliday, Old Holliday, The Baltimore Theatre, and Old Drury, was a historical theatrical venue in Federal Period Baltimore, Maryland.
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Hong Kong
Hong Kong is a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China.
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Hornellsville, New York
Hornellsville is a town in Steuben County, New York, United States.
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Howson family
The Howson family was a show-business dynasty founded in Australia, several of whose members went on to further success in America, London and Europe.
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India
India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.
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James Robertson Anderson
James Robertson Anderson (8 May 1811 – 3 March 1895) was a Scottish stage actor and dramatist.
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Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.
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Jefferson De Angelis
Thomas Jefferson De Angelis (November 30, 1859 – March 20, 1933), born in San Francisco was an American century stage actor who specialized in comedy and acrobatic clowning and who achieved fame in vaudeville and on Broadway.
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Jennie Kimball
Jennie Kimball (also, Jennie Kimball Flaherty and Jennie Kimball Schaefer; June 20, 1848 – March 23, 1896) was an American actor, soubrette, and theatrical manager.
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John Joseph Braham Sr.
John Joseph Braham (1847 – October 28, 1919) was an English-born American musical theater conductor and composer who introduced the works of Gilbert and Sullivan to the United States and composed some of the earliest original orchestral scores for silent film.
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John T. Raymond
John T. Raymond (1836-1887), whose original name was John O'Brien, was an American stage actor, born in Buffalo, New York, on August 5, 1836; he died in Evansville, Indiana on April 10, 1887.
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Kate Denin
Kate Denin (c. 1837 Philadelphia – 5 February 1907 New York City) was an American stage actress.
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Kingston, New York
Kingston is the only city in, and the county seat of, Ulster County, New York, United States.
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Kolkata
Kolkata, formerly known as Calcutta (its official name until 2001), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of West Bengal.
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Laramie, Wyoming
Laramie is a city in and the county seat of Albany County, Wyoming, United States, known for its high elevation at, railroad history, and as the higher-education center for the state of Wyoming.
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List of the longest-running Broadway shows
This is a list of Broadway shows with 1,000 or more performances, sorted by number of performances.
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London Assurance
London Assurance (originally titled Out of Town) is a five-act comedy co-authored by Dion Boucicault and John Brougham.
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Lord Byron
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824) was a British poet and peer.
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Macbeth
Macbeth (full title The Tragedie of Macbeth) is a tragedy by William Shakespeare.
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Malvina Pray Florence
Malvina Pray Florence (April 19, 1830–February 18, 1906) was an American dancer and comic actress.
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Manhattan Theatre
The Manhattan Theatre was located at 102 West 33rd Street in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, directly across from Greeley Square at Sixth Avenue and 33rd Street.
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Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist.
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Maurice Curtis
Maurice Curtis (1849 – 1920), stage name M. B. Curtis, was an American stage actor, producer, and real estate developer, at one point tried and acquitted of a policeman's murder.
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McVicker's Theater
McVicker's Theater (1857–1984) was a playhouse in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
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Melbourne
Melbourne (Boonwurrung/Narrm or Naarm) is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in Australia, after Sydney.
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Membership of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons
Membership of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons (MRCS) is a postgraduate diploma for surgeons in the UK and Ireland.
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Minnie Palmer
Minnie Palmer (March 31, 1857 – May 21, 1936) was an American actress in dramatic and musical plays.
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Minstrel show
The minstrel show, also called minstrelsy, was an American form of theater developed in the early 19th century.
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Much Ado About Nothing
Much Ado About Nothing is a comedy by William Shakespeare thought to have been written in 1598 and 1599.
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Mumbai
Mumbai (ISO:; formerly known as Bombay) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra.
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Mussoorie
Mussoorie is a hill station and a municipal board, in Dehradun city in the Dehradun district of the Indian state Uttarakhand.
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New Britain, Connecticut
New Britain is a city in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States.
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New England
New England is a region comprising six states in the Northeastern United States: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
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New York Clipper
The New York Clipper, also known as The Clipper, was a weekly entertainment newspaper published in New York City from 1853 to 1924.
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Newark Opera House
Newark Opera House is a historic commercial building and opera house located at Newark in New Castle County, Delaware.
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Newark, New Jersey
Newark is the most populous city in the U.S. state of New Jersey, the county seat of Essex County, and a principal city of the New York metropolitan area.
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Newfoundland and Labrador
Newfoundland and Labrador (Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador; frequently abbreviated as NL) is the easternmost province of Canada, in the country's Atlantic region.
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Othello
Othello (full title: The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice) is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare, around 1603.
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Pacific Mail Steamship Company
The Pacific Mail Steamship Company was founded April 18, 1848, as a joint stock company under the laws of the State of New York by a group of New York City merchants.
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Pantomime
Pantomime (informally panto) is a type of musical comedy stage production designed for family entertainment.
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Park Theatre (Brooklyn)
The Park Theatre was a playhouse in Brooklyn, New York City, located on 381–383 Fulton Street.
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Pastiche
A pastiche is a work of visual art, literature, theatre, music, or architecture that imitates the style or character of the work of one or more other artists.
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Perth Theatre
Perth Theatre is an entertainment venue in Mill Street, Perth, Scotland.
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Piper's Opera House
Piper's Opera House is an historic performing arts venue in Virginia City, Storey County, Nevada in the United States.
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Playwright
A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays which are a form of drama that primarily consists of dialogue between characters and is intended for theatrical performance rather than mere reading.
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Princess Theatre (Melbourne)
The Princess Theatre, originally Princess's Theatre, is a 1452-seat theatre in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
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Queen Victoria
Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death in 1901.
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Repertory theatre
A repertory theatre, also called repertory, rep, true rep or stock, which are also called producing theatres, is a theatre in which a resident company presents works from a specified repertoire, usually in alternation or rotation.
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan (30 October 17517 July 1816) was an Anglo-Irish playwright, writer and Whig politician who sat in the British House of Commons from 1780 to 1812, representing the constituencies of Stafford, Westminster and Ilchester.
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Richard Golden
Richard Golden (1854–1909) was an American stage actor and comedian whose most famous role was "Old Jed Prouty" in his play of the same name.
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Richard Stahl
Richard Stahl (January 4, 1932 – June 18, 2006) was an American actor who mostly appeared in comic roles on television and in films.
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Robert Heir
Robert James Heir (10 February 1832 – 27 February 1868) was an actor in Australia, best known as the first husband of the great actress Fanny Cathcart. William Gill (dramatist) and Robert Heir are People from the Colony of Victoria.
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Routledge
Routledge is a British multinational publisher.
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Rowman & Littlefield
Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group is an American independent academic publishing company founded in 1949.
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Royal Aquarium
The Royal Aquarium and Winter Garden was a place of amusement in Westminster, London.
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Royal Lyceum, Sydney
The Royal Lyceum was a small theatre in York Street, Sydney founded in 1854, which was redeveloped and renamed many times, finally as the Queen's Theatre, by which name it closed in 1882.
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Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, and a component of His Majesty's Naval Service.
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Royal Strand Theatre
The Royal Strand Theatre was located in the Strand in the City of Westminster.
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Royal Victoria Theatre, Sydney
The Royal Victoria Theatre, often referred to as the Victoria Theatre or The Old Vic, was a theatre in Sydney, Australia, the first large theatre in the city.
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Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City, often shortened to Salt Lake or SLC, is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah.
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Sam'l of Posen; or, The Commercial Drummer
Sam'l of Posen; or, The Commercial Drummer is a play by the Irish-born dramatist George H. Jessop.
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San Francisco
San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center in Northern California.
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Schenectady, New York
Schenectady is a city in Schenectady County, New York, United States, of which it is the county seat.
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Scotland
Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
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Shanghai
Shanghai is a direct-administered municipality and the most populous urban area in China.
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Shimla
Shimla (also known as Simla, the official name until 1972) is the capital and the largest city of the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh.
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Shylock
Shylock is a fictional character in William Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice (1600).
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Steamship
A steamship, often referred to as a steamer, is a type of steam-powered vessel, typically ocean-faring and seaworthy, that is propelled by one or more steam engines that typically move (turn) propellers or paddlewheels.
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Sydney
Sydney is the capital city of the state of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia.
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Sydney School of Arts building
The Sydney School of Arts building, now the Arthouse Hotel, is a heritage-listed meeting place, restaurant and bar, and former mechanics' institute, located at 275–277a Pitt Street in the Sydney central business district in the City of Sydney local government area of New South Wales, Australia.
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T. S. Bellair
Thomas Smith Bellair (23 May 1825 – 14 May 1893) was an English actor who moved to Australia, where he had his own dramatic company before managing various hotels, finally settling in Wagga Wagga, where his family became prominent citizens. William Gill (dramatist) and t. S. Bellair are Australian theatre managers and producers.
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The Bronx
The Bronx is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Bronx County, in the U.S. state of New York.
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The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today
The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today is a novel by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner first published in 1873.
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The Merchant of Venice
The Merchant of Venice is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1596 and 1598.
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The Salt Lake Tribune
The Salt Lake Tribune is a newspaper published in the city of Salt Lake City, Utah.
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The School for Scandal
The School for Scandal is a comedy of manners written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
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Theatre Royal, Ballarat
The Theatre Royal, Ballarat was a theatre in Ballarat, Victoria.
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Theatre Royal, Brisbane
The Theatre Royal was the second dedicated theatre built in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son
"Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son" is a popular English language nursery rhyme.
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Tony Hart (theater)
Tony Hart (born Anthony J. Cannon; July 25, 1855 – November 4, 1891) was an American actor, comedian and singer.
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Tony Pastor
Antonio Pastor (May 28, 1837 – August 26, 1908) was an American impresario, variety performer and theatre owner who became one of the founding forces behind American vaudeville in the mid-to-late-nineteenth century.
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Trinity Bay (Newfoundland and Labrador)
Trinity Bay is a large bay on the northeastern coast of Newfoundland in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
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Troy, New York
Troy is a city in the United States state of New York and is the county seat of Rensselaer County, New York.
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Union Square Theatre
Union Square Theatre was the name of two different theatres near Union Square, Manhattan, New York City.
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University of Illinois Press
The University of Illinois Press (UIP) is an American university press and is part of the University of Illinois system.
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University of the Virgin Islands
The University of the Virgin Islands (or UVI) is a public historically black land-grant university in the United States Virgin Islands.
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Virginia City, Nevada
Virginia City is a census-designated place (CDP) that is the county seat of Storey County, Nevada, and the largest community in the county.
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Walnut Street Theatre
Walnut Street Theatre, founded in 1808 at 825 Walnut Street, on the corner of S. 9th Street in the Washington Square West neighborhood of Philadelphia, is the oldest operating theatre in the United States.
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West End theatre
West End theatre is mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres in and near the West End of London.
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William Bain (Royal Navy officer)
William Bain (1771 – 11 September 1853) was a Scottish steamship inventor, steamship captain, writer, and British naval officer.
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William Hoskins (actor)
William Hoskins (17 February 1816 – 28 September 1886) was a Shakespearean actor from England whose later career was mostly in Australia and New Zealand, reputedly "one of the best actors who has ever trod our stage".
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William J. Florence
William Jermyn Conlin (July 26, 1831 – November 19, 1891), better known by his stage name William J. Florence, was a US actor, songwriter, and playwright.
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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare (23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor.
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Willie Edouin
Willie Edouin (1 January 1846Edouin's New York Times obituary says 1841 – 14 April 1908) was an English comedian, actor, dancer, singer, writer, director and theatre manager.
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World's Columbian Exposition
The World's Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World's Fair, was a world's fair held in Chicago from May 5 to October 31, 1893, to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1492.
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Wyoming Territory
The Territory of Wyoming was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from July 25, 1868, until July 10, 1890, when it was admitted to the Union as the State of Wyoming.
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14th Street Theatre
For the theater that was once in New York City see Fourteenth Street Theatre The 14th Street Theatre, located at 2037 E. 14th Street in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, United States, was a 288-seat theater built in 2002 as part of Playhouse Square.
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1910 United States census
The 1910 United States census, conducted by the Census Bureau on April 15, 1910, determined the resident population of the United States to be 92,228,496, an increase of 21 percent over the 76,212,168 persons enumerated during the 1900 census.
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48th Street Theatre
The 48th Street Theatre was a Broadway theatre at 157 West 48th Street in Manhattan.
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See also
Australian stage actors
- Alastair Duncan (actor, born 1926)
- Arka Das
- Ben Winspear
- Bogdan Koca
- Brandon Burke
- Brendan Higgins
- Brett Randall
- Danny Adcock
- Darren Coggan
- Gerry Sont
- Hamish Michael
- Jada Alberts
- James Majoos
- Jason Montgomery (actor)
- John Sheerin
- Les Foxcroft
- Liv Hewson
- Mike Bishop (actor)
- Rahel Romahn
- Ralph Cotterill
- Rhys McConnochie
- Robert Faggetter
- Steve Adams (actor)
- Tony Rickards
- Trader Faulkner
- Travis McMahon
- William Gill (dramatist)
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gill_(dramatist)
Also known as William B. Gill.
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