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Thomas A. Bogar
This, the first biography of the first American musical comedy star, Maggie Mitchell (1836-1918), elucidates her explosive talent, her manifold challenges, and her indomitable perseverance in delighting audiences for forty…
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Examines presidential theater-going as it reflects shifting popular tastes in America. This book offers a chronology of theater attendance throughout the lives of 43 American presidents.
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April 14, 1865. A famous actor pulls a trigger in the presidential balcony, leaps to the stage and escapes, as the president lies fatally wounded. In the panic that follows…
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John Wilkes Booth is known for one thing–assassinating America’s sixteenth president, Abe Lincoln. But what don’t we know? Who helped him–and who tried to stop him? Thomas A. Bogar reveals…
This book recounts the personal and professional life of Thomas Souness Hamblin (1800-1853), Shakespearean actor and Bowery Theatre manager.
For two centuries, nearly all historical accounts of American theatre have focused on New York, Boston, and Philadelphia. Thomas A. Bogar's Theatre on the American Frontier provides an overdue, balanced…
