Actors 2
Actors 407
Adams, Edwin, 1834-1877 1
Adams, Maude, 1872-1953 1
Alexander, George, Sir, 1858-1918 2
Allen, Louis, fl. 1856 1
Allen, Viola, 1867-1948 1
Anderson, Mary, 1859-1940 7
Andrews, George H., 1798-1866 2
Angelis, Jefferson, 1859-1933 1
Angri, Elena, 1824-1886 1
Artists 3
Assassins 2
Authors 12
Baddeley, Sophia, 1745?-1786 1
Baker, Benjamin A., 1818-1890 1
Bancroft, Marie, 1839-1921 1
Bancroft, Squire, 1841-1926 1
Bangs, Frank C., 1833-1908 1
Bar, Benedict, 1812-1877 1
Barrett, Ann Jane, 1801-1853 1
Barrett, Lawrence, 1838-1891 1
Barrett, Mary 1
Barrow, Julia Bennett, b. 1824 1
Barrymore, Maurice, 1847-1905 1
Bassi, Amedeo, 1874-1949 1
Bateman, Ellen Douglas, 1844-1936 1
Bateman, Kate Josephine, 1843-1917 1
Beard, John, 1715 or 16-1791 1
Bellew, Kyrle, 1855-1911 1
Berry, Edward, 1706-1760 1
Betty, William Hen. West (William Henry West), b. 1791 2
Blackface entertainers 3
Blake, William Rufus, 1805-1863 3
Blissett, Francis, 1742?-1824 1
Booth, Edwin, 1833-1893 26
Booth, John Wilkes, 1838-1865 2
Booth, Junius Brutus, 1796-1852 6
Booth, Junius Brutus, 1821-1883 1
Booth, Mary Devlin, 1840-1863 3
Booth, Mary, d. 1881 2
Boston Theatre (Washington Street, Boston, Mass.) 1
Bosworth, Hobart, 1867-1943 1
Boucicault, Dion, 1820-1890 1
Breeches parts 9
Brough, William Francis, 1798-1867 1
Brougham, John, 1810-1880 2
Broughton, Phyllis, 1861 or 2-1926 1
Brown, John Mills, 1781 or 2-1859 1
Browne, Solomon James, 1791-1869 1
Bruce, Edgar, 1844 or 5-1901 1
Bryant, Dan, 1833-1875 1
Buckley, G. S. (George Swayne), 1829-1879 1
Buckstone, John Baldwin, 1802-1879 1
Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917 1
Buntline, Ned, 1822 or 3-1886 1
Burbage, Richard, 1567?-1619 1
Burke, Charles Saint Thomas, 1822-1854 2
Burton, William Evans, 1802-1860 8
Butler, Pierce, 1807-1867 3
Cameron, Violet, 1862-1919 1
Campbell, Stella Patrick, b. 1886 1
Carr, Mary, fl. 1856 2
Catley, Ann, 1745-1789 1
Celeste, Madame (Celine), 1814-1882 2
Chanfrau, Francis S., 1824-1884 3
Chanfrau, Henrietta, 1837-1909 1
Chapman, Caroline 1
Charles, Mary Ann, fl. 1855-1858 1
Cheer, Margaret, fl. 1767-1793 1
Child Actors 1
Child actors 4
Christy, George N. 1827-1868 1
Cibber, Susannah Maria Arne, 1714-1766 1
Cibber, Theophilus, 1703-1758 2
Clare, Ada 1
Clarke, Corson W., 1814-1867 1
Clarke, Creston, 1865-1910 1
Clarke, George H., 1840-1906? 1
Clarke, John Sleeper, 1833-1899 2
Claxton, Kate, 1848-1924 1
Clifton, Ada, fl. 1855-1867 3
Clinch, Charles P. (Charles Powell), 1797-1880 1
Clowns 1
Comedians 3
Comer, T. (Thomas) 2
Composers 3
Congreve, William, 1670-1729 1
Conner, Charlotte Mary Sanford Barnes, d. 1863 2
Conway, Frederick Bartlett, 1819-1874 3
Conway, H.B. (Harry Blenkinsop-Coulson), 1850-1909 1
Conway, William Augustus, 1789-1828 2
Cooke, George Frederick, 1756-1812 2
Cooper, Thomas Abthorpe, 1776-1849 2
Coquelin, Benoit Constant, 1841-1909 1
Costume 177
Couldock, Eliza, fl. 1853 1
Cowell, Anna, b. 1824 1
Crabtree, Lotta, 1847-1924 3
Craig, Edward Gordon, 1872-1966 2
Cramer, M. E., 1803-1868 1
Cramer, Miss, fl. 1828 1
Crane, William Henry, 1845-1928 1
Craven, John T. 1
Crosbie, Richard, fl. 1793 1
Cross, Emily, d. 1884 1
Cubas, Isabella, 1831-1864 1
Cunningham, Peter C., fl. 1836-1860 1
Cushman, Charlotte, 1816-1876 4
Cushman, Susan, 1817-1857 1
Daly, Julia, 1833-1887 1
Dancers 13
Davenport, Adolphus H., 1828-1873 1
Davenport, Fanny, 1850-1898 1
Dean, Julia, 1830-1868 2
Denin, Kate, 1837-1907 1
Denin, Susan, 1835-1875 1
Denvil, Henry Gaskell, 1804-1866 1
Derickson, Marie 1
Dixon, George Washington, 1808-1861 1
Dolman, John, ca. 1824-1895 1
Doran, John, 1807-1878 1
Dramatists 40
Drew, Frank Nelson, 1831-1903 1
Drew, John, 1827-1862 2
Drew, John, 1853-1927 1
Drew, Louisa, 1820-1897 6
Drunzer, Mlle. 1
Dumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870 1
Dunlap, Willliam, 1766-1839 1
Dunn, James Colgan, 1818-1891 1
Dunstall, John, 1717-1778 1
Durand, Rosalie, 1829-1866 1
Durang, Charles 1
Duse, Eleonora, 1858-1924 2
Eldridge, Jessie 1
Ellis, Clara, d. 1850 1
Elliston, Robert William, 1774-1831 2
Elocutionists 5
Elsworthy, Agnes, fl. 1850-1856 1
Emery, Samuel Anderson, 1817-1881 1
Entertainers 6
Evans, Charles E., 1857-1945 1
Evans, Edith, Dame, 1888-1976 1
Farren, Elizabeth, 1762-1829 1
Farren, Ellen, 1848-1904 2
Farren, William, 1825-1908 1
Faversham, William, 1868-1940 1
Fechter, Charles Albert, 1824-1879 2
Fenno, William Augustus, b. 1814 1
Fenton, Lavinia, 1708-1760 1
Fields, W. C., 1879-1946 1
Finn, Henry J. (Henry James), 1787-1840 1
Fisher, Charles, 1816-1891 1
Fisher, Clara, 1811-1898 5
Fiske, Minnie Maddern, 1865-1932 3
Fitzwilliam, Fanny Elizabeth, 1801-1854 1
Florence, Malvina (Pray) Littell 1
Florence, William Jermyn, 1831-1891 1
Foote, Samuel, 1720-1777 2
Forrest, Edwin, 1806-1872 11
Forrester, Henry, 1797-1840 1
Fox, Della 1
Garrick, David, 1717-1779 2
Gillette, William, 1853-1937 1
Griffin, Benjamin, 1680-1740 1
Grossman, Edwina Booth, b. 1861 2
Harkins, Daniel H., 1835 or 6-1902 1
Harper, John, d. 1742 1
Harrigan, Edward, 1844-1911 1
Hart, Tony, 1855-1891 1
Hartley, Elizabeth, 1750?-1824 1
Held, Anna, 1877?-1918 1
Henderson, John, 1747-1785 3
Historians 1
Hoey, William, 1855-1897 1
Hood, Marion, d. 1912 1
Hughes, Annie, 1869-1954 1
Humorists 1
Inchbald, Mrs., 1753-1821 1
Irving, Henry, Sir, 1838-1905 7
Irwin, May, 1862-1938 1
James, Louis, 1842-1910 2
Janauschek, Francesca Romana Magdalena, 1830-1904 1
Jefferson, Joseph, 1829-1905 12
Johnson, Benjamin, 1664 or 5-1742 1
Jonston, Alexander, d. 1775 1
Jordan, Dorothy, 1761-1816 2
Kean, Charles John, 1811?-1868 1
Kean, Edmund, 1787-1833 6
Kean, Ellen, 1805-1880 1
Keeley, Mary Ann, 1806-1899 1
Keene, Laura, 1826-1873 6
Kemble, Fanny, 1809-1893 5
Kemble, John Philip, 1757-1823 1
Kemble, Priscilla, 1758-1854 1
Kemble, Roger, 1721-1802 1
Kendal, Madge, 1849-1935 1
Kendal, William Hunter, 1843-1917 1
King, Thomas, 1730-1805 1
Knowles, James Sheridan, 1784-1862 1
Lathrop, Sam 1
Lemaitre, Frederick, 1800-1876 1
Lewis, James, 1837?-1896 1
Lincoln, Annie B. 1
Lind, Jenny, 1820-1887 2
Linden, Marie, b.1862 1
Lingard, Alice, 1847-1897 1
Litton, Marie, 1847-1884 1
Lyons, Gretchen, fl. 1890 1
MacKintosh, William, 1855-1929 1
Macready, William Charles, 1793-1873 2
Maeder, J. Gaspard (James Gaspard), 1809-1876 1
Mann, Eliza, d. 1874 1
Mannering, Mary, 1876-1953 1
Marlowe, Julia, 1865-1950 1
Mathews, Charles James, 1803-1878 1
Mattocks, George, d. 1804 1
Mellon, Sarah Jane, 1824-1909 1
Menken, Ada Isaacs, 1835-1868 1
Miller, Joe, 1684-1738 1
Millett, Maude, 1867-1920 1
Minstrels 4
Modjeska, Helena, 1840-1909 1
Moliere, 1622-1673 1
Montague, H. J. (Henry James), 1844-1878 2
Moody, John, 1727-1812 1
Morris, Clara, 1848-1925 1
Mounet-Sully, 1841-1916 1
Mountain, Rosemond, ca. 1768-1841 1
Munden, Joseph Shepherd, 1758-1832 1
Murdoch, James Edward, 1811-1893 3
Murray, Alma, 1854-1945 1
Musicians 5
Neilson, Adelaide, 1848-1880 1
Nelson, Annette, fl. 1828-1837 1
Neville, Henry, 1837-1910 2
Nickinson, Charlotte, fl. 1858-1864 1
Nickinson, John, 1808-1864 1
Nikita, Louise, b. 1872 1
O'Keeffe, John, 1747-1833 1
O'Neill, Eliza, 1791-1872 1
O'Neill, James, 1849-1920 1
Oldfield, Anne, 1683-1730 3
Oldmixon, Mr. (John), 1673-1742 1
Olivier, Laurence, 1907-1989 1
Omohundro, John Burwell, 1846-1880 1
Owens, John E. (John Edmond), 1823-1886 1
Palmer, Minnie, 1857 or 60-1936 1
Parsons, Charles Booth, b. 1805 1
Parsons, William, 1736-1795 1
Pastor, Tony, 1837-1908 1
Pearson, Harry, ca. 1822-1884 1
Performing arts 47
Pictorial works 2
Pinkethman, William, d. 1725 1
Placide, Henry P., 1799-1870 3
Placide, Thomas, 1808-1877 1
Plantation owners 3
Potter, Cora Urquhart, 1857-1936 1
Powell, Snelling, 1758-1821 1
Price, Stephen, 1782 or 3-1840 1
Prior, Louisa, 1830-1883 1
Provost, Mary, b. 1835 1
Quick, John, 1748-1831 1
Rachel, 1821?-1858 2
Rainforth, Elizabeth, 1814-1877 1
Raymond, John T., 1836-1887 1
Reeve, John, 1799-1838 1
Rehan, Ada, 1857-1916 6
Richings, Caroline Mary, 1827-1884 1
Richings, Peter, 1798-1871 1
Rignold, George, d. 1912 1
Ristori, Adelaide, 1822-1906 1
Robinson, Mary, 1758-1800 1
Russell, Lillian, 1861-1922 3
Sepulchral monuments 1
Set designers 2
Sheridan, Elizabeth Ann, 1754-1792 1
Shuter, Edward, 1728?-1776 1
Siddons, Henry, 1774-1815 1
Siddons, Sarah, 1755-1831 8
Singers 28
Smith, Elizabeth, 1811 or 12-1887 1
Smith, O., 1786-1855 1
Sothern, E. H. (Edward Hugh), 1859-1933 1
Stirling, Fanny, 1815-1895 1
Stoddart, James Henry, 1827-1907 1
Terriss, William, d. 1897 2
Terry, Ellen, Dame, 1847-1928 4
Terry, Marion, 1856-1930 2
Theater 415
Theater critics 1
Theatrical managers 105
Theatrical producers and directors 5
Theroigne de Mericourt, 1762-1817 1
Thompson, Denman, 1833-1911 2
Toole, John Lawrence, 1830-1906 1
Tree, Herbert Beerbohm, Sir, 1853-1917 3
Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901 1
Wallack, James William, 1791?-1864 1
Wallack, Lester, 1820-1888 1
Warner, Charles, 1846-1909 1
Wilkinson, Tate, 1739-1803 1
Williams, Barney, 1824-1876 1
Woffington, Margaret, d. 1760 8
Women in the performing arts 29
Women in the theater 166
Wood, John, Mrs., 1831-1915 1
Woodward, Henry, 1714-1777 3
Wyndham, Charles, 1837-1919 1
Yates, Mrs. (Mary Ann), 1728-1784 1