Chesnut Street Theater

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Performance of text Harriett Jay
The two arrived in New York with the completed work, but the managers rejected it. Buchanan decided to stage it himself at the Chestnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia, where it first appeared on 30...
Performance of text Susanna Haswell Rowson
SHR 's musical Slaves in Algiers (the most popular of her seven stage pieces) had its first production at the Chesnut Street Theater in Philadelphia, for Rowson's benefit.
Montgomery, Benilde. “<span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Slaves in Algiers</span>: Susanna Rowson’s First American Play”. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Conference, Pittsburgh, PA.

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