Lewis Hallam
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| OccupationTemplate:Pluralize from text | Actor and theatre director |
| Years active | mid-1700s |
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Lewis Hallam (circa 1714–1756) was a British born actor and theatre director in the Thirteen Colonies.
Career
Hallam is thought to have been born in about 1714 and possibly in Dublin. His father Thomas Hallam was also an actor who was killed by actor Charles Macklin in 1736 at the Drury Lane Theatre, allegedly over a wig. Many of his siblings were actors and one brother was a Royal Naval admiral.[1] Hallam fathered a child Isabella who was baptised in London in 1746. He and his brother, William had only moderate success in Britain and they decided to ply their trade in North America.[2]
Hallam arrived in the Thirteen Colonies in 1752 with his theatrical company, assembled by his brother William, who was also a founder of the Theatre company.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. Lewis had been an actor in William's company in England, but it had failed, prompting the North American venture. The new company landed at Yorktown, Virginia.[3]
The Theatrical company began their performances in Williamsburg, then the capital of the Virginia Colony.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. Here they employed a large wooden structure, which was altered to suit it's purposes. Allegedly it was so close to the woods that the players were able to shoot wild fowl from the windows of the building. Their opening performance was George Granville's The Jew of Venice, which Hallam billed as Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, on September 15, 1752.[4]Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. Music was performed by a soloist harpsicordist harpsichord. From Williamsburg, the troupe traveled to Annapolis and Philadelphia.[3]
In 1753, Hallam took over the first theatre in New York City, the Theatre on Nassau Street,[5] from September 17, 1753, to March 18, 1754.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. They moved to Philadelphia and opened The Fair Penitent and Miss in Her Teens on April 15, 1754.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. The group then performed in Charleston, South Carolina.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.
Hallam died in Jamaica, where the company had gone to perform.[3]Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. His widow, the actress Sarah Hallam Douglass (d. Philadelphia, 1773), married David Douglass,[3] with whom she formed the American Company in 1758.[5]Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. Her son by Lewis, Lewis Hallam Jr., became an actor in his mother and step-father's company.[3]Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Dunlap, William (1832). History of the American Theatre. New York: J. & J. Harper. p. 3.
- ^ Jared Brown, ‘Hallam, Lewis (1714?–1756?)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 7 Feb 2015
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- ^ Jared Brown, ‘Hallam, Lewis (1714?–1756?)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [1]
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Lewis Hallam (see Columbia Encyclopedia text)". encyclopedia.com (a website run by HighBeam Research). Retrieved 15 January 2010.
Sources
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Davis, Andrew (2010). America's Longest Run: A History of the Walnut Street Theatre. Penn State Press. ISBN 9780271030531. Retrieved 6 June 2024.
External links
- Lewis Hallam; North American Theatre Online(AlexanderStreet)
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