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Dinner theater (sometimes called "dinner and a show") is a form of entertainment that combines a restaurant meal with a staged play or musical. Sometimes the play is incidental entertainment, secondary to the meal, in the style of a sophisticated night club or the play may be a major production with dinner less important and in some cases it is ...
Western Theater of the American Civil War (4 C, 12 P) Pages in category "Theaters of the American Civil War" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
Audience watching a dinner theater show by the Actors' Theatre of South Carolina. Dinner theater (sometimes called dinner and a show) is a form of entertainment that combines a restaurant meal with a staged play or musical. In the case of a theatrical performance, sometimes the play is incidental entertainment, secondary to the meal.
A popular form of theater during this time was the minstrel show, which featured white (and sometimes, especially after the Civil War, black) actors dressed in "blackface (painting one's face, etc. with dark makeup to imitate the coloring of an African or African American)."
[24] During the performance the clanging of fire bells could be heard from the streets of New York, as confederate sympathizers during the ongoing American Civil War tried to burn the city to the ground, which included fires set in the Lafarge House, which abutted the rear of The Winter Garden Theatre. About a half-hour into the performance ...
Largely Literary Theater Company will present "Ghosts of the Civil War: Shades of Blue and Gray" for The Wayne County Civil War Round Table program at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 16.
Western Theater map at The Photographic History of the Civil War. The Western Theater was an area defined by both geography and the sequence of campaigning. It originally represented the area east of the Mississippi River and west of the Appalachian Mountains.
The theater’s low ceiling, dark corners and floor-level playing space with a long revolving rectangular platform serving as the show’s titular bandstand are all used to good advantage.