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2 unusual facts about Laura Keene


Laura Keene

During the first stint in California, she was hired by Catherine Norton Sinclair to play opposite Edwin Booth.

It was her company that was playing at Ford's Theatre, Washington, on the night of Abraham Lincoln's assassination.


1860 in Ireland

27 March - The melodrama The Colleen Bawn, or The Brides of Garryowen, written by and starring Dion Boucicault, is first performed at Miss Laura Keene's theatre, New York.

Clara Fisher

Fisher performed with most of the great actors of the time like William Charles Macready, Edmund Kean, Edwin Booth (brother of John Wilkes Booth), John Brougham, Joseph Jefferson, Laura Keene and Edwin Forrest.


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