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The 1970s began with the first season in the new Angus Bowmer Theatre. [12] In 1977, after being used for company-only play performances and staged readings, the Black Swan Theatre became another venue presenting shows as a part of the main OSF season.
Agnes Robertson Moorehead was born on December 6, 1900, [2] in Clinton, Massachusetts, the daughter of former singer Mary (née McCauley), who was 17 when she was born, and Presbyterian clergyman John Henderson Moorehead.
The hall was renamed in memory of First World War casualty Joseph Webster, on his family gifting it to the town in 1919. [131] Besides concerts, the hall was used for political addresses and lectures. HRH Princess Margaret reopened the hall in October 1970 as the Webster Memorial Theatre and Arts Centre, after major works and refurbishment. [132]
In 2014, the church was sold and converted into a theatre, which also included a bar and restaurant in the former church halls. The building was renamed Websters in honour of Alfred Websters who designed some of the stained glass windows of the church. [6] In 2017, the venue was briefly closed after masonry fell from the steeple. [7]
Angus L. Bowmer (September 25, 1904 – May 26, 1979) was the founder of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Oregon, United States. During his tenure as artistic director, he produced all 37 of William Shakespeare 's plays and performed 32 Shakespearean roles in 43 separate stagings.
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) is a regional repertory theatre in Ashland, Oregon, United States, founded in 1935 by Angus L. Bowmer.The Festival now offers matinee and evening performances of a wide range of classic and contemporary plays not limited to Shakespeare.
CANTON − The popular genres of true crime and rock 'n' roll documentaries converge in a film about Myles Connor Jr., Milton's notorious rocker turned bank robber and art thief.
The Webster opened on November 19, 1937 as a movie theater by the Shulman family. Hartford's mayor, councilmen , and Connecticut state Senators were in attendance for opening night. [ 1 ] In the 1930s and 1940s, the theater hosted a weekly "dish night," a common practice for theaters of the time, where patrons would receive free dishes to ...