Tag: Charlie Edwards

  • Subscribe to Community Arts Uncovered to learn how Gilmor’s decision to venture out on his own would impact film and theatre in the United States.

    Gilmor Brown’s Historic 1908 Kinsley, KS Performance
  • Gilmor Brown’s days absorbing knowledge and culture from Chicago’s literati at glamorous teas helped get him his job with Ben Greet’s company and subsequent employment, but they could not have prepared him for the road.

    “Sixty-Below Zero:” Gilmor Brown’s 1907 Rural Canadian Shakespeare Tour
  • Preston K Dillenbeck would enroll some of the world’s first film celebrities, and the up-and-coming teenage director from Kinsley, Kansas, Charlie Edwards. Subscribe to Community Arts Uncovered to learn how Dillenbeck’s school of elocution impacted film and theatre in the…

    Fulton and Trueblood’s School of Oratory
  • Gilmor Brown’s dramatic work became incredibly consequential, but is still rarely acknowledged in theatre history. More so, Gilmor’s educational efforts would go on to directly impact television and film luminaries, like Rue McClanahan, Leonard Nimoy, Dustin Hoffman, Sally Struthers, and…

    Gilmor Brown: From North Dakota to a Shakespearean impresario
  • 100 years ago today, a prolific and remarkable era in history ended in Kinsley, Kansas. On June 1, 1926, one of Kinsley’s most well-known native sons, Charles Rufus Edwards, passed away; he was only forty-five years old. In his short…

    100 Years Ago Today, an Era Ended in Kinsley, Kansas
  • How a brief reference in a doctoral dissertation tucked away in the labyrinthine stacks at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California, led me to Charlie Edwards’ story, six years ago, would have been easy to forget if it had…

    Charlie Edwards: The Man Behind Kinsley’s Shakespeare Festival
  • When I arrived at the Huntington Library on the third of April 2019, I was searching for details to include in my dissertation, Grassroots Shakespeare, on amateur Shakespeare performance in the United States.

    From Pasadena to Kinsley, Kansas