Phillip Webster
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Phillip Webster
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Director of Theatre at Thomas More University. Artistic Director of Southbank Shakespeare. PhD Student at the Institute of Historical Research, researching 19th c. forms of reenactment and reconstruction and Cincinnati's Pike's Opera House.
I hope this is the new logo for all the IHR merch.
January 28, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Don't forget about "Lucky Stiff"!
December 19, 2024 at 4:50 PM
Just down the street at Wood's you could see the inimitable Maggie Mitchell in a new play entitled The Attorney and the Actress. Mitchell was a huge star for the latter half of the 19th c. and counted both J.W. Booth and Abraham Lincoln among her admirers. (2/2)

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December 17, 2024 at 8:07 PM
The Gale Sisters, who would all die tragically the following year in one of the most gruesome stage accidents in history, were performing a pas de deux. And in Pike’s exhibition hall Frederic Edwin Church’s iconic landscape "The Heart of the Andes" was on display as part of its national tour. (2/)
December 5, 2024 at 4:30 PM