Major Changes In American Theater

Ninetieth century Theater was changed between 1800 and 1900 than in any other time. One of the major changes during the century was the establishment of gaslights in the theater. They allowed for emotion and let actors become more detectable as they moved on stage but the changes in the theaters didn’t take place too rapidly, only when new theaters were built and older theaters were modernized. Another change in theater was the actors method of acting, such as a more natural style, introduced by David Garrick and ended up influencing Edmund Kean and William Charles Macready, though they still used a more exaggerated acting style. American actors continued broad rhetorical acting styles that in previous times captivated English crowds.