In 1963, Olivier directed Peter O ' Toole as Hamlet in the inaugural performance of the newly formed National Theatre ; critics found resonance between O ' Toole's Hamlet and John Osborne's hero, Jimmy Porter, from Look Back in Anger.

** John Osborne's Look Back in Anger opens at the Royal Court Theatre, London, changing the scope of theatrical and other forms of drama in the UK.

He directed John Osborne's play Look Back in Anger at the Royal Court Theatre, and in the same period he directed Shakespeare in Stratford-upon-Avon.

Then in 1958, he was offered the part of Jimmy Porter, " an angry young man " role, in the film version of John Osborne's play Look Back in Anger, a gritty drama about middle-class life in the British Midlands, directed by Tony Richardson, and again with Claire Bloom as co-star.

Highlights of his career in modern theatre include the roles of Sir Thomas More in Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons ( 1960 ), Charles Dyer in Dyer's play Staircase, staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1966, the definitive Laurie in John Osborne's A Hotel in Amsterdam ( 1968 ), and Antonio Salieri in the original stage production of Peter Shaffer's Amadeus ( 1979 ).

Senior politicians, including John Prescott and Nadine Dorries questioned Osborne's judgement for sending a junior minister onto the programme in place of himself.

The phrase was originally coined by the Royal Court Theatre's press officer to promote John Osborne's Look Back in Anger.

He first made a major impression as an adult as Laurence Olivier's son-in-law in the stage and screen versions of John Osborne's The Entertainer.

The playlet " Look Back in Hunger " ( spoofing John Osborne's Look Back in Anger ) in the episode " The East Cheam Drama Festival " from the fifth series, showed that writers Galton and Simpson were in touch with developments in the British theatre, in the use of sighs and silent pauses, something Osborne's style had in common with the plays of Harold Pinter, whose work began to emerge towards the end of the series ' run.

In 1957, she co-starred with Sir Laurence Olivier in the original London production of John Osborne's The Entertainer, taking over the role of Jean Rice from Dorothy Tutin when the play transferred from the Royal Court to the Palace Theatre.

There was a significant development in the 1955-56 British theatre season during which John Osborne's Look Back in Anger ( and Samuel Beckett's English version of his own Waiting for Godot ) premiered.

Getting a major break in John Osborne's West of Suez at the Royal Court with Ralph Richardson, he then acted in major productions at the Royal Court and the Royal National Theatre and was directed by Laurence Olivier in J.

'" He converted Armchair Theatre into a vehicle for the generation of ' Angry Young Men ' who were emerging after John Osborne's play Look Back in Anger ( 1956 ) had become a great success, though older writers like Ted Willis, were not excluded.

* John Osborne's 1965 play A Patriot for Me is based on Redl's story

This may have been a play on words inspired by John Osborne's " Look back in anger ", as the headline upon the front cover read " Look!

In 2007 at the Old Vic Theatre, Lindsay played Archie Rice in John Osborne's The Entertainer, a role first performed by Olivier in 1957.

He was in Peter Gill's production of John Osborne's Look Back in Anger at the Theatre Royal, Bath from August to September 2006.

John Osborne's play Look Back In Anger ( 1956 ) showed Angry Young Men not totally dissimilar to the film and theatre directors of the movement ; the hero is a graduate, but working in a manual occupation.

His productions of John Osborne's The Entertainer, The World-My Canvas by Ruth Dixon and A View from the Bridge by Arthur Miller, for the now defunct amateur theatre group The Characters, won Best Play at the Woking Drama Festival in 1966, 1968 and 1969 respectively.

He produced John Osborne's Look Back in Anger in 1956, the first play identified as being by one of the Angry young men.

While performing a leading role in John Osborne's play Look Back in Anger ( 1956 ) she began a relationship with the married dramatist ; after he obtained a divorce they married in 1957.

That same year, Oliver replaced Mary Ure as the female lead in the Broadway production of John Osborne's play Look Back in Anger.

For the theatre, Addison wrote the music for John Osborne's plays The Entertainer ( 1957 ) and Luther.

* Agis ( play ), a verse drama by John Home

The Crawford rule, named after John R. Crawford, is designed to make match play more equitable for the player in the lead.

It has been an Orioles tradition since 1975 to play John Denver's " Thank God I'm a Country Boy " during the seventh inning stretch.

Raphael Holinshed also included her story in his Chronicles ( 1577 ), based on Tacitus and Dio, and inspired Shakespeare's younger contemporaries Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher to write a play, Bonduca, in 1610.

In the 1980s and early 1990s, numerous media reports emerged that plans were underway to do a biopic based upon Haley's life, with Beau Bridges, Jeff Bridges and John Ritter all at one point being mentioned as actors in line to play Haley ( according to Goldmine Magazine, Ritter attempted to buy the film rights to Sound and Glory ).

Charles appeared in the John Godber comedy play Teechers, in which he swapped in and out of various roles, at the Arts Theatre, London, and at the Edinburgh Festival ( 1989 ), and he played Idle Jack in the pantomime Dick Whittington, at the Hull New Theatre ( 1997 ).

San Francisco Chronicle columnist Herb Caen wrote in November 1978, " Just when you think tastelessness has reached its nadir, along comes a punk rock group called The Dead Kennedys, which will play at Mabuhay Gardens on Nov. 22, the 15th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's assassination.

He sang for troops in Birmingham Hospital with John Macchia and hired his childhood friend Marco Rizo to play piano and arrange for the orchestra.

Déjà Vu is a 1991 stage play by John Osborne.

Shakespeare's Henry IV plays and Henry V adapted and developed the material in an earlier play called the Famous Victories of Henry V, in which Sir John " Jockey " Oldcastle appears as a dissolute companion of the young Henry.

Guilt is a main theme in John Steinbeck's East of Eden, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, Tennessee Williams ' A Streetcar Named Desire, William Shakespeare's play Macbeth, Edgar Allan Poe's " The Tell-Tale Heart " and " The Black Cat ", and many other works of literature.

* Gallathea, a late 16th century play by John Lyly

For example, a pronoun may play the role of subject (" I kicked the ball "), of object (" John kicked me "), or of possessor (" That ball is mine ").

Katherine Duncan-Jones accepts a 1600 – 1 attribution for the date Hamlet was written, but notes that the Lord Chamberlain's Men, playing Hamlet in the 3000-capacity Globe, were unlikely to be put to any disadvantage by an audience of " barely one hundred " for the Children of the Chapel's equivalent play, Antonio's Revenge ; she believes that Shakespeare, confident in the superiority of his own work, was making a playful and charitable allusion to his friend John Marston's very similar piece.

Richard Burton received his third Tony Award nomination when he played his second Hamlet, his first under John Gielgud's direction, in 1964 in a production that holds the record for the longest run of the play in Broadway history ( 136 performances ).

Bogart starred in the Broadway play Invitation to a Murder at the Theatre Masque, now the John Golden Theatre, in 1934.

The studio was famous for its socially-realistic, urban, low-budget action pictures ; the play seemed like the perfect property for it, especially since the public was entranced by real-life criminals like John Dillinger ( whom Bogart resembled ) and Dutch Schultz.

The Colts finished 0 – 8 – 1 in the strike-shortened 1982 season and earned the team the right to select Stanford quarterback John Elway with the first overall pick, but Elway refused to play for Baltimore, and using leverage as a draftee of the New York Yankees baseball club, forced a trade to Denver.

The expression, " the noble savage " was first used in 1672 by British poet John Dryden in his play The Conquest of Granada.

* 1605 – The controversial play Eastward Hoe by Ben Jonson, George Chapman, and John Marston is performed, landing two of the authors in prison.

Shakespeare's play The Life and Death of King John

The anonymous play The Troublesome Reign of King John portrayed the king as a " proto-Protestant martyr ", similar to that shown in John Bale's morality play Kynge Johan, in which John attempts to save England from the " evil agents of the Roman Church ".