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Alas Poor Yorick Capital Has Seen Its Last Theater
Washington summer rushes by as the city faces losing its last legitimate theater. The National theater, opened 1635 and rebuilt several times, may end its stage days amid racial segregation debates. Belasco theater may reopen under a management that ends discrimination. else Washington will be theaterless.
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Yorick
Capital
Washington
Philadelphia
National Theater
Democratic Party
Actors' Equity
Madison Place
Lafayette Square
Washington Theater
Eleventh
E Street
Pennsylvania Avenue
Treasury Building
Aroe
White House
Georgetown
Capitol Hill
Tenth Street
Christy’s Opera House
Ford’s
Abraham Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
Booth
Lincoln
John Booth
Edwin
Edwin Booth
The
Secret Service
Constitution Hall
Daughters of the American Revolution