¨Our American Cousin¨ The play was written by Tom Taylor, an Englishman, and premiered in New York City in 1858—an instant smash. “The houses are crowded to over-flowing,” the New York Times [reported several weeks]
Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, was assassinated by well-known stage actor John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865, while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.
