March 11, 2026
Tag: Maud Adams
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The Maud Adams You Don’t Know
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Maude Adams (not Maud Adams the Bond Girl, she doesn’t have the “e”) was an astonishingly successful stage actor who burst onto the New York stage in 1896 with J. M. Barrie’s The Little Minister and in 1905 played the title role in Barrie’s Peter Pan. Alphonse Mucha painted her. She toured with her own…
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November 9, 2023 5 Comments
Broadway could not have evolved beyond the 1910s without the Theater Guild, founded in New York City in 1918 for producing the best and the brightest America could offer. Their influence began by bringing the works of G. B. Shaw to America and supporting O’Neill, Sherwood, Behrman, and Noel Coward. And, that was just the start, the blockbuster musical was on the way