In this episode of Theatre is Dead, Cara and Charlie discuss how theatre popped up between gladiator matches in Rome and Europe's first playwright of color, Terence (one name, like Madonna).

Sources: 

• Western Theatre - Encyclopaedia Britannica
• How American Theatre Has Prevailed Through History
• The Night Before Pearl Harbor
• V Was for Variety
• Reconciliation, Resolution, and the Political Role of "Oklahoma!" in American Consciousness
• Theatre in the Modern World
• THEATRE HISTORY - Restoration to Present
• The Cambridge Guide to American Theatre