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Ford's Theatre is a theater located in Washington, D.C., which opened in 1863.The theater is best known for being the site of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.On the night of April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth entered the theater box where Lincoln was watching a performance of Tom Taylor's play Our American Cousin, slipped the single-shot, 5.87-inch derringer from his pocket and fired at ...
Folger Shakespeare Theater: Capitol Hill: 1932 250 Ford's Theater: Penn Quarter: 1863 665 GALA Hispanic Theatre: Columbia Heights: 1976 Hamilton Live: Downtown??? 354 Howard Theater: Shaw: 1910 1100 John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts: Concert Hall Foggy Bottom: 1971 2465 John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Opera House
Advertisement for The American Cousin (Washington Evening Star, April 14, 1865) The play's April 14, 1865, performance at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., became the most infamous in the play's history as the site of Abraham Lincoln's murder by John Wilkes Booth.
A pair of front-row balcony tickets to Ford’s Theatre on April 14, 1865 — the night President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth — sold at auction for $262,500, according ...
Lincoln Theatre has also been a venue for Filmfest DC. [27] The theater was the primary venue for the annual LGBT film festival Reel Affirmations from 1998 to 2008. From 2008 to 2010, Arena Stage mounted several productions at the theater, including Carrie Fisher 's Wishful Drinking , while its Southwest Waterfront complex was being renovated.
Pages in category "Theatres on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington, D.C." The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Two weeks after the L.A. Philharmonic Association announced the schedule for the Hollywood Bowl’s summer season, the org has done the same for the Bowl’s more modest cousin across the canyon ...
The Petersen House is a 19th-century federal style row house in the United States in Washington, D.C., located at 516 10th Street NW, several blocks east of the White House. It is best known for being the house where President Abraham Lincoln died on April 15, 1865 after being shot the previous evening at Ford's Theatre located across the street.