An actor-manager is a leading actor who sets up their own permanent theatrical company and manages the business, sometimes taking over a theatre to perform select plays in which they usually star. It is a method of theatrical production used consistently since the 16th century, particularly common in 19th-century Britain and the United States.
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Caricature of Henry Irving in the melodrama The Bells, as depicted in the magazine Vanity Fair,
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