Maurice Browne, born in Reading, England, was best known as a theater producer in the United States and the UK. The Cambridge-educated Browne was also a poet, actor, and theater director.
British-born, he founded The Little Theatre in Chicago's Fine Arts Building, and on its fourth floor the company operated from 1912-1917, during which its example inspired the "little theatre movement" across the United States while in Chicago it introduced residents to the works of Henrik Ibsen, August Strindberg, Anton Chekhov and many other great dramatists.
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