Maryland Company of Comedians

The Maryland Company of Comedians was the first permanent theatrical company in Baltimore, Maryland, active from 1781 to 1785. It was founded, by Thomas Wall and Adam Lindsay, in spite of a 1774 ban by the Continental Congress on theatrical entertainment. Wall also built the New Theatre, the first theatre in Baltimore.

References

• American Theatre Companies, 1749-1887, by Weldon B. Durham; Greenwood Press, 1986.
• Londré, Felicia Hardison; Daniel J. Watermeier (1998). The History of North American Theater. Continuum International Publishing Group. ISBN 0-8264-1233-5.