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From: American Theatre
Date: 20080501
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150 YEARS AGO (1858)
Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen marries Suzannah Daae Thoresen in Bergen. The couple will move to the capital city of Christiania (which will become Oslo). Despite being a world traveler, Ibsen will spend most of the remaining five decades of his life there.
75 YEARS AGO (1933)
In the midst of the Great Depression, the Barter Theatre opens in Abingdon, Va. Actor Robert Porterfield, a native Virginian, assembles a company of unemployed actors to present John Golden's After Tomorrow. Attendees barter such items as country hams, eggs, pickles, ...
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