Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The history of theatre charts the development of theatre over the past 2,500 years. While performative elements are present in every society, ...
The following timeline of twentieth-century theatre offers a year-by-year account of the performance and publication of notable works of drama and significant events in the history of theatre during the 20th century. Musical theatre works are excluded from the list below.
Twentieth-century theatre describes a period of great change within the theatrical culture of the 20th century, mainly in Europe and North America. There was a widespread challenge to long-established rules surrounding theatrical representation; resulting in the development of many new forms of theatre, including modernism, expressionism, impressionism, political theatre and other forms of ...
The art deco and French Renaissance-styled theater, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, opened on April 10, 1931. Erie's showplace: A timeline of the Warner Theatre's history Skip ...
Did you know the first movie shown at the Bama Theatre starred Cary Grant? Or that the Police, Vincent Price and Lily Tomlin have performed there?
Richard Wagner's Bayreuth Festival Theatre.. A wide range of movements existed in the theatrical culture of Europe and the United States in the 19th century. In the West, they include Romanticism, melodrama, the well-made plays of Scribe and Sardou, the farces of Feydeau, the problem plays of Naturalism and Realism, Wagner's operatic Gesamtkunstwerk, Gilbert and Sullivan's plays and operas ...
Broadway's longest-running straight play. Started at Empire Theatre, moved to the Bijou Theatre in 1945, and finished up its run in 1947 at the Alvin Theatre. June 1939 [137] Tobacco Road: P December 4, 1933 May 31, 1941 3,182 [21] Revivals in 1942 (34 performances), 1943 (66 performances), and 1950 (7 performances)
Historic Outdoor Forest Theater in Carmel, California, at sunset. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to theatre: . Theatre – the generic term for the performing arts and a usually collaborative form of fine art involving live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event (such as a story) through acting, singing, and/or dancing before a ...