Question: Playing a central role in American history, what famous theater was established in Boston, Massachusetts in 1845?
Context: The history of Boston plays a central role in American history.  In 1630, Puritan colonists from England founded Boston and helped it become the way it is today.  Boston quickly became the political, commercial, financial, religious and educational center of the New England region.  The American Revolution erupted in Boston, as the British retaliated harshly for the Boston Tea Party and the patriots fought back.  They besieged the British in the city, with a famous battle at Bunker Hill in Charlestown on June 17, 1775 (which was lost by the colonists, but inflicted great damage against the British) and won the Siege of Boston, forcing the British to evacuate the city on March 17, 1776.  However, the combination of American and British blockades of the town and port during the conflict seriously damaged the economy, and the population fell by two thirds in the 1770s. Thrissur Elsy is an Indian film actress best known for her work in Malayalam cinema.  She acts mainly in supporting roles and mother characters.  She was a famous theater artist until Ramu kariat finds her and introduced through his films.  Her mother role as Mukesh's character in movie In Harihar Nagar was well noted.  She did many notable roles in Tele films and soap operas. The Boston Associates was a term created by historian Vera Shlakmen in "Economic History of a Factory Town, A Study of Chicopee, Massachusetts" (1935) to describe a loosely linked group of investors.  They included Nathan Appleton, Patrick Tracy Jackson, Abbott Lawrence, and Amos Lawrence, often related directly or through marriage, they were based in Boston, Massachusetts.  By 1845, there were 31 textile companies—located in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and southern Maine—produced one-fifth of all cotton and wool textiles in the United States.  With the capital earned through these mills, they invested in railroads, especially the Boston and Lowell.  These railroads helped transport the cotton from warehouses to factories.  These Boston-based investors established banks—such as the Suffolk Bank—and invested in others.  In time, they controlled 40% of banking capital in Boston, 40% of all insurance capital in Massachusetts, and 30% of Massachusetts' railroads.  Tens of thousands of New Englanders received employment from these investors, working in any one of the hundreds of their mills. Thodupuzha Vasanthi is an Indian film actress acts mainly in Malayalam.  She was a famous theater artist before coming to movies.  She started doing small roles in movies thereafter.  She had her first full length role in "Kakka" in 1982.  She acted in more than 400 films, mostly in Malayalam and some in Tamil.  She is capable of doing negative roles in an impressive manner.  Now she is a dance teacher at Varamani Natyalaya.  She has done some TV serials, telefilms, dramas, dance dramas, dance programmes, and albums. The Howard Athenæum (1845-1953), also known as Old Howard Theatre, in Boston, Massachusetts, was one of the most famous theaters in Boston history.  Founded in 1845, it remained an institution of culture and learning for most of its years, finally closing in 1953. Massachusetts ( or ), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the most populous state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.  It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the east, the states of Connecticut and Rhode Island to the south, New Hampshire and Vermont to the north, and New York to the west.  The state is named for the Massachusett tribe, which once inhabited the area.  The capital of Massachusetts and the most populous city in New England is Boston.  Over 80% of Massachusetts's population lives in the Greater Boston metropolitan area, a region influential upon American history, academia, and industry.  Originally dependent on agriculture, fishing and trade, Massachusetts was transformed into a manufacturing center during the Industrial Revolution.  During the 20th century, Massachusetts's economy shifted from manufacturing to services.  Modern Massachusetts is a global leader in biotechnology, engineering, higher education, finance, and maritime trade. The Fire Next Time is a 1963 book by James Baldwin.  It contains two essays: "My Dungeon Shook — Letter to my Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of Emancipation," and "Down At The Cross — Letter from a Region of My Mind."  The first essay, written in the form of a letter to Baldwin's 14-year-old nephew, discusses the central role of race in American history.  The second essay deals with the relations between race and religion, focusing in particular on Baldwin's experiences with the Christian church as a youth, as well as the Islamic ideas of others in Harlem. The Famous Players Film Company or Celebrated Players was a film company founded in 1912 by Adolph Zukor in partnership with the Jadeja Motion Pictures and Frohman brothers, the powerful New York City theatre impresarios.  Discussions to form the company were held at The Lambs, the famous theater club where Charles and Daniel Frohman were members.  The company advertised "Famous Players in Famous Plays" and its first release was the French film "Les Amours de la reine Élisabeth" (1912) starring Sarah Bernhardt and Lou Tellegen.  Its first actual production was "The Count of Monte Cristo" (1912, released 1913), directed by Edwin S. Porter and starring James O'Neill, the father of dramatist Eugene O'Neill.  The company established a studio on 26th Street in New York City that today is Chelsea Studios. Margarita Salicola ("floruit" 1682 – 1706) was a famous opera singer of her time.  She came from a family of musicians at the court of the Ferdinando Carlo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua and became a staple of casts at San Giovanni Grisostomo, Venice's newest and most famous theater, in the 1680s.  The earliest work with which she can be linked is Pietro Simone Agostini's "Il ratto delle sabine" ("The Rape of the Sabine Women").  She was especially praised for her appearance in the title role of Carlo Pallavicino's "Penelope la casta" ("The Chaste Penelope") in the winter of 1685.  The Saxon elector Johann Georg III, in whose court Pallavicino already served, was so thrilled by her performance that he became intent to taking her and two "castrati" from the same cast into this service.  After a staged "kidnapping," Salicola was escorted en route to Dresden by a Mantuan agent. Vasily Ivanovich Nemirovich-Danchenko (Russian: Васи́лий Ива́нович Немиро́вич-Да́нченко , born 23 December (4 January), 1845, Tiflis (now Tbilisi, Georgia), Russian Empire – died 18 September 1936, Prague, Czechoslovakia) was a Russian writer, essayist, journalist, memoirist, and the brother of famous theater director Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko.  Vasily Nemirovich-Danchenko, the most prolific Russian Empire writer of the late 19th-early 20th century, published more than 250 books; he was widely popular among the general reading public, but had little success with mainstream critics.
Answer: Old Howard Theatre, in Boston, Massachusetts, was one of the most famous theaters in Boston history.