Theatre in Saint-Domingue, 1764-1791 – Plays, Ballets and Operas

This online database holds theatre and performance records in the late eighteenth-century French colony of Saint-Domingue (now Haiti) between 1764 and 1791. Those records include a series of local newspapers which announced upcoming theatrical performances in several towns in Saint-Domingue, notably in Cap-Français (now Cap-Haïtien) and Port-au-Prince. The database seeks to open up the history of colonial-era theatre and helps to create space within that history for a burgeoning Creole (i.e. local) theatre tradition