Recalling that fateful night at Ford's Theatre
It sounds like the answer to a Trivial Pursuit question, history category: What was playing at Ford’s Theatre the night Abraham Lincoln was assassinated? The answer, for those not up on their Civil War-era minutiae, is Our American Cousin, a rather slight comedy of manners by British writer Tom Taylor.
From this seemingly innocuous historical detail came the inspiration for an opera by composer Eric Sawyer and librettist John Shoptaw.