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In 1962, the company of The Old Vic theatre was dissolved, and reconstituted as the "National Theatre Company" opening on 22 October 1963 with Hamlet. The company remained based in The Old Vic until the new buildings opened in February 1976. The National Theatre Board was established in February 1963, formally gaining the Royal prefix in 1990.
The Georgian Theatre Royal, Richmond, Yorkshire (1788), was fully restored in 2003 with Mackintosh and David Wilmore of Theatresearch as historical theatre consultants working with Allen Tod Architecture. The Prospect Company had opened the first show in the Theatre Royal Richmond for over a century on its re-opening in 1963.
London (England) – The 1732 Theatre Royal and present Royal Opera House in Covent Garden and the Theatre Royal Drury Lane; the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden was converted in 1848 into an opera house, the building dates to 1858; Royal Drury Lane opened in 1663, the present theatre dates to 1812, and the auditorium to 1922.
Southbank Centre is a complex of artistic venues in London, England, on the South Bank of the River Thames (between Hungerford Bridge and Waterloo Bridge).. It comprises three main performance venues (the Royal Festival Hall including the National Poetry Library, the Queen Elizabeth Hall and the Purcell Room), together with the Hayward Gallery, and is Europe’s largest centre for the arts.
Royal National Theatre Lasdun studied at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, and was a junior in the practice of Wells Coates . Like other Modernist architects, including Sir Basil Spence and Peter and Alison Smithson , Lasdun was much influenced by Le Corbusier and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe , but there was a gentler ...
National Theatre Live: 50 Years On Stage is a 2013 live staged event film directed by Nicholas Hytner.Shown in theatres and on PBS and National Theatre Live. [1] The program is presented by The Royal National Theatre which celebrates 50 years of theatre, with some extracts of the best productions from the last five decades including Alan Bennett, Noël Coward, David Hare, Tony Kushner, Eugene ...
On 18 and 19 December, comedy rock duo Tenacious D performed on their Pick of Destiny Tour, Neil Hamburger opened on both dates. On 19 June 2007, OMD filmed their Architecture & Morality and more comeback-tour in this theatre.
The architecture of England is the architecture of modern England and in the historic Kingdom of England. It often includes buildings created under English influence or by English architects in other parts of the world, particularly in the English and later British colonies and Empire , which developed into the Commonwealth of Nations .