When the curtain rises on the world premiere at Baltimore Center Stage, an actor portraying the Harford County native and presidential assassin John Wilkes Booth spreads his coattails, sits down on a ...

John Wilkes Booth’s hunger for fame — for remembrance — is understood to have motivated his crime at least as much as his oft ...

I am fascinated by why people do terrible things,” says “Mad Men” creator Matthew Weiner, whose play “John Wilkes Booth: One Night Only!” is partly inspired by the Jan. 6 insurrection.

Matthew Weiner, creator of the television series “Mad Men,” set his sights on Abraham Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth in ...

John Wilkes Booth wasn’t the best actor in the Booth family: he was outshone by his father, Junius Brutus Booth, and by his brother Edwin. But John Wilkes was the most beautiful of the Booths ...

The poster, printed on April 20, 1865, advertises a total of $100,000 in rewards for the capture of John Wilkes Booth and his accomplices. Booth fatally shot Lincoln on April 14, 1865, at Ford’s ...

Most who studied Lincoln in school learn he was assassinated by a man named John Wilkes Booth. Lincoln was watching a play with his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, at Ford's Theatre when Booth came from ...

The celebrated 19th-century Shakespearean actor — whose imposing bronze statue is the park’s centerpiece — is mostly remembered today as the older brother of John Wilkes Booth, who ...

When the curtain rises on the world premiere at Baltimore Center Stage, an actor portraying the Harford County native and presidential assassin John Wilkes Booth spreads his coattails, sits down ...

The creator of "Mad Men" is behind a new play running in Baltimore about John Wilkes Booth. Why it matters: Matthew Weiner ...

Most who studied Lincoln in school learn he was assassinated by a man named John Wilkes Booth. Lincoln was watching a play with his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, at Ford’s Theatre when Booth came ...