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| | Hallam, Lewis. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17) |
 | | In 1753 he built the first theater in New York City, on Nassau St., where he presented Elizabethan and Restoration dramas, farces, and operettas. |
 | | His widow married David Douglass, and in 1758 they formed the American Company, in which Hallams son, Lewis Hallam, Jr., c.17401808, performed. |
 | | On the death of Douglass, Hallam took over the management and subsequently produced (1787) the first American comedy, The Contrast, by Royall Tyler. |
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