The Camp Street Theatre, American Theatre, or Old American Theatre was a

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between 1824 and 1835.Robin O. Warren, Women on Southern Stages, 1800-1865: Performance, Gender and Identity It was founded by

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to replace the

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as the only

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theater in New Orleans. It was considered the finest English speaking theater in the

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and was the first building in New Orleans with gas lighting. It was replaced by the

St. Charles Theatre The St. Charles Theatre was a theater in New Orleans, United States, between 1835 and 1967. It was founded by James H. Caldwell to replace the Camp Street Theatre and was for a time the only English language, English theater in New Orleans. It w ...

and by the New American Theatre, both of which burned down in 1842.

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