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VGW(HU.774.067
16 Jun 1774:12 (1184 Supplement)
Charlestown, May 27. On Friday last the Theatre, which
opened here the 22d of December, was closed. Warmly
countenanced and supported by the publick, the Manager and
his Company were excited to the most strenuous efforts to
render their entertainments worthy of so respectable a
patronage. If it is considered how late it was in the
season before the house could be opened, the variety of
scenery and decorations necessary to a regular theatre, the
number of plays represented (fifty eight) and that almost
every piece required particular preparations, it must be
confessed that the exertions of the American Company have
been uncommon, and justly entitle them to those marks of
publick favour that have, for so many years, stamped a merit
on their performances. The choice of plays hath been
allowed to be very judicious, the director having selected
from the most approved English poets such pieces as possess,
in the highest degree, the Utile Dulci, and while they
entertain improve the mind, by conveying the most useful
lessons of morality and virtue. The Company have separated
until the winter, when the New York Theatre will be opened,
Mr. Hallam being embarked for England to engage some
recruits for that service. The year after they will perform
at Philadelphia, and in the winter following we may expect
them here with a theatrical force hitherto unknown in
America.
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