#Censorship Episodes

Touring Broadway shows get censored in Philadelphia during the 1930s. A reprise of Episode 51 from Season 2.

In the fall of 1915, D.W. Griffith's "The Birth of a Nation" was booked to play at the Forrest Theatre - but would Philadelphia's city authorities allow it to be shown?

Could the first publicly funded and owned city theater survive in the rough-and-tumble of Philadelphia city politics?

During the 1930s, some touring Broadway shows got into trouble in Philly with S. Davis Wilson, aka "The People's Mayor."

In the 1920s, Philadelphia theater censorship controversies arose about what women were wearing - or rather were NOT wearing - on the city's stages.

Actress Sarah Bernhardt outrages Philadelphia's clergymen, and "The Playboy of the Western World" causes yet another Philly audience riot!

1906: A coalition of African American men attempt to stop Thomas Dixon Jr.'s play "The Clansman" from being performed in Philadelphia.

A mob is gathering outside the Chestnut Street Theatre, while inside the rehearsals for the scandalous play "The Quaker City" go on! Will it all end in a deadly riot? The suspense is building . . .