Charles Durang

Charles Durang (December 4, 1794 – 1870) was an American actor, dancer, writer, and theater historian.

He was actor, author, stage manager, prompter, ballet master, and finally opened a dancing academy.

He worked for many years as a dancing master and rehearsal repetiteur at the Chestnut Street Theatre, in the 1840s and 50s.

A friend and admirer of his fellow Philadelphian Edwin Forrest, he named his son after the actor.

The totality of these newspapers columns, which are an invaluable reference to historians of early American theater, were carefully collected and annotated by Thompson Westcott in 1868, with Durang's assistance.