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Napier Lothian Jr.
Napier Lothian Jr. (1855 – January 3, 1903) was an American theatre manager, talent manager, actor, and theatre director. He should not be confused with his father, the actor, conductor, flageoletist, and violinist Napier Lothian Sr. (1836–1916). Life and career Born in San Francisco, California in 1855, Napier Lothian Jr. was the son of Napier Lothian Sr.; an unsuccessful gold miner who had participated in the California Gold Rush. His mother was the British dancer Clara Chapman Rivers who married his father in San Francisco. In 1856 Lothian Sr. became an actor in the San Francisco Minstrels. In 1859 both of Lothian Jr.'s parents were engaged in Christy's Minstrels, and the family traveled with that company to New York City where Lothian Sr. became a celebrated flageoletist on the New York stage. In 1862, the entire Lothian family, including the seven-year old Lothian Jr., were engaged by the Morris Brothers minstrels from Boston. The family moved from New York City to Bos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theatre Manager
Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors to present experiences of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music, and dance. It is the oldest form of drama, though live theatre has now been joined by modern recorded forms. Elements of art, such as painted scenery and stagecraft such as lighting are used to enhance the physicality, presence and immediacy of the experience. Places, normally buildings, where performances regularly take place are also called "theatres" (or "theaters"), as derived from the Ancient Greek θέατρον (théatron, "a place for viewing"), itself from θεάομαι (theáomai, "to see", "to watch", "to observe"). Modern Western theatre comes, in large measure, from the theatre of ancient Greece, from which it borrows technical terminolog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
