Staging Ground: An American Theater and Its Ghosts

by Leslie Stainton

In this poignant and personal history of one of America's oldest theaters, Leslie Stainton captures the story not just of an extraordinary building but of a nation's tumultuous struggle to invent itself. Built in 1852 and in use ever since, the Fulton Theatre in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, is uniquely ghosted. Its foundations were once the walls of a colonial jail that in 1763 witnessed the massacre of the last surviving Conestoga Indians. Those same...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271063653
• ISBN13: 9780271063652
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.6"