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I don't know why this misstatement from @TheAtlantic bothers me so much, but I am fairly sure the oldest attested usage of Latin 'plaudite' ('applaud!') is in the plays of Plautus, where the command is the last line of almost every single play.pic.twitter.com/ACpfZUqB8A
I think it bothers me because it plays into this exotic martial origin of applause when they just clapped like we do at the end of a show (obligatory note: plaudere can mean any kind of noise-making applause; its core meaning is pounding things together...so 'clap' or 'stomp')
In any event, the correct earliest instance sort of blows up the whole 'clapping is about status distinctions' thing that the article is doing; actors were not high status people in Rome. Especially not comic actors.
(The reason I can be pretty confident the occurrences in Plautus are probably the oldest is that Plautus is the oldest Latin author to have complete works survive. Given that he uses it at the end of basically every play, he's certainly the bulk of Old Latin references)
..."please clap" is Roman?
Well, being Roman, it is presented as a command rather than a request.
Was Dr. Bicchieri talking about applause itself or the phenomena of demonstratively unusual, sustained applause?
This I do not know - that paragraph is all we get on the Roman connection and the link is to a story discussing a ruse by Heraclius in the 600s AD, 800 years after Plautus.
Though by that point we're centuries beyond the forced applause at the performances of Nero, so 
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