Ourselves by Rachel Crothers
The only prostitute play penned by a woman that was performed, Ourselves tells the story of what happens to prostitutes once they attempt the difficult process of reform. The first scene […]
Monthly Archives: December 2014
Dealers in White Women Reviews
This 1904 melodrama by Martin Hurley portrayed the rescue of an unsuspecting daughter from the vice den of a white slaver. There are three reviews. Dealers in White Women […]
Comstock’s Crusade Against Obscenity
Cartoon of Anthony Comstock waging war against the wicked flesh upon the stage.
Mrs. Warren’s Profession Cartoon
Cartoon portraying the volatile censorship of George Bernard Shaw’s American premiere of Mrs. Warren’s Profession in New York in 1905.
Rediscovering Kate Carew
Kate Carew was a reporter and caricaturist who reported on white slavery, among other topics, in 1910. […]
The Fight Publicity Materials
One of the most infamous censored brothel plays of the 1913 season.
Eugene O’Neill
Eugene O’Neill was one of America’s greatest playwrights and still remains the only playwright to garner multiple Pulitzer Prizes and the Nobel Prize for Literature. Click on the link below to […]
Play a Hooker and Win an Oscar
In this article, Bernard Weintraub notes that “the first Academy Award for best actress was given in 1928 to Janet Gaynor for her […]
Freak Plays, Theatre, July 1915
Freak Plays–Theatre–July, 1915
The Stage Struck Girl, Theatre, November 1915
The Stage Struck Girl–Theatre November 1915