The success of original material like Urinetown, Avenue Q, Spelling Bee and In the Heights, as well as creative re-imaginings of film properties, including Thoroughly Modern Millie, Hairspray, Billy Elliot and The Color Purple, and plays-turned-musicals, such as Spring Awakening, prompts theatre historian John Kenrick to write: " Is the Musical dead?

Musical theatre historian Miles Kreuger and conductor John McGlinn propose that the word was not an insult, but a blunt illustration of how white people then perceived black people.

The theatre historian W. J. MacQueen-Pope, wrote of the theatre, " Simply to go to His Majesty's was a thrill.

* Richard Bebb, actor, theatre historian, music archivist – lived in St Mary's Lodge, Lordship Road, as a child.

In 1996, he married Louise Kerz, a theatre historian.

The theatre historian David Mayer explains the use of the " bat " or slapstick and the " transformation scene ":

Jacob Bronowski ( 18 January 1908 – 22 August 1974 ) was a Polish-Jewish British mathematician, biologist, historian of science, theatre author, poet and inventor.

* Ellis Ashton, English comedian and theatre historian

In 1920, under the direction of Swedish theatre historian Agne Beijer, it was restored with the addition of electric light, which today is designed to flicker like candles.

However, according to film historian Peter Cowie's notes for the DVD release of the film, while Bergman wanted to recreate as closely as possible the original 1791 production in the Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna, he had hoped that the film could be shot in the theatre.

" The politics of the Soviet Union did not allow him to work as a historian, so Meri found work as a dramatist in the Vanemuine, the oldest theatre of Estonia, and later on as a producer of radio plays in the Estonian broadcasting industry.

However, theatre historian Lee Davis maintains that Freedley wanted the script changing because it was " a hopeless mess.

More recently, in 1598 Monteverdi had helped the court's musical establishment to produce Giovanni Battista Guarini's play Il pastor fido, described by theatre historian Mark Ringer as a " watershed theatrical work " which inspired the Italian craze for pastoral drama.

J. Willis Sayre, a Seattle theatre critic, journalist, and historian, who had fought in the war, had actively lobbied local officials to rename this park.

Frank van Straten OAM, theatre historian and founding director ( 1984 – 1993 ) of the Victorian Arts Centre's Performing Arts Museum in Melbourne, provided a short biography on each artist, constituting the cornerstone of the Hall of Fame.

" The theatre historian Dan Rebellato asserts: " it is clear that he is set on confronting his readership, not speaking for them ".

Slovenj Gradec is also the birthplace of skier Tina Maze, tennis player Katarina Srebotnik, Slovenia national football team footballers Marko Šuler and Mirnes Šišić, top handball player Iztok Puc, critical theorist Renata Salecl, and writer, theatre critic, and literary historian Lado Kralj.

Sidney-Fryer is also a prolific historian of 19th century ballet, and is an expert on the ballet theatre of the romantic era.

According to musical theatre historian Miles Kreuger in his book Show Boat: The History of a Classic American Musical however, Mahin retained most of the basic structure of the storyline, but little of Oscar Hammerstein II's stage dialogue, preferring to create his own.

According to theatre historian John Kenrick, La Cage aux Folles helped make the 1983 Broadway season an especially strong one.

But there were no professional dramatists until William Dunlap, whose work as playwright, translator, manager and theatre historian has earned him the title of " Father of American Drama "; in addition to translating the plays of August von Kotzebue and French melodramas, Dunlap wrote plays in a variety of styles, of which André and The Father ; or, American Shandyism are his best.

Egon Friedell ( born Egon Friedmann ; 21 January 1878, in Vienna ; died 16 March 1938, in Vienna ) was a prominent Austrian philosopher, historian, journalist, actor, cabaret performer ( Kabarettist ) and theatre critic.

According to theatre historian Henry Bial, minorities in American had not yet seen such accolades:

* W. J. MacQueen-Pope, theatre historian

This Hamlet was in fact the National Theatre's official opening production, directed by Olivier, but Simon Callow has dubbed it " slow, solemn, long ", while Ken Campbell vividly described it as " brochure theatre.

However on 21 April 2008, during a BBC Two radio interview with Ken Bruce, theatre impresario and chairman of Everton F. C., Bill Kenwright, said that Elvis actually spent a day in the UK being shown around London by Tommy Steele in 1958.

The Nimrod Theatre Company, in Nimrod Street, Kings Cross, Sydney, Australia, was founded by in 1970 by John Bell, Richard Wherrett and Ken Horler, and gained a reputation for producing more " good new Australian drama " from 1970 to 1985 than any other Australian theatre company.

" The score was one of the Gershwins ' best " according to theatre writer Ken Bloom.

Currently McCamus is dividing his time between theatre and film work, and has recently starred in the CBC film Waking Up Walter: The Walter Gretzky Story as famous hockey dad Walter Gretzky, the Canadian production Shake Hands with the Devil, and in the Ken Finkleman miniseries At The Hotel.

After seeing the American Living Theatre at The Roundhouse in the early 1970s he was inspired to found The Ken Campbell Roadshow, a small theatre group that performed in unconventional venues such as pubs.

Ken Hill ( 28 January 1937-23 January 1995 ) was a critically acclaimed English playwright, and theatre director.

The Ken Hill Memorial Trust was set up after Hill died in 1995, to aid the Theatre Royal in supporting new talent in musical theatre.

In its first decade, artists working at the new theatre included Clive Barker, Kathy Burke, Ken Campbell, Mark Rylance, and Clare Dowie who appeared in the world première of her own play Adult Child / Dead Child.

She has written plays for theatre, radio, and television ; was the author of the screenplay of Ken Loach's Ladybird, Ladybird and co-author of Aimée & Jaguar by German director Max Färberböck.

His sister Kathleen Tynan was the second wife and biographer of the English theatre critic Ken Tynan.

Factory Theatre is a theatre in Toronto, Ontario, founded as Factory Theatre Lab in 1970 by Ken Gass and Frank Trotz.

However, Ken Gass returned in 1996 to resume the Artistic Directorship with the intention of putting the theatre back on its feet.

Ken Ludwig is an American playwright and theatre director.

By this time Thomas Holt had left teaching and moved into theatrical and artist management in partnership with the noted entrepreneur Hugh D. McIntosh, owner of the Tivoli theatre circuit.

Critics applauded Spacey's daring for taking on the management of a theatre, but noted that while his acting was impressive, his skills and judgment as a producer / manager had yet to develop.

She continued to act in the theatre for most of her career, and became noted for her portrayal of Nora in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, but became wider known once she started to work with eminent Swedish film director Ingmar Bergman.

He is a noted interpreter of the musical works of Stephen Sondheim, and is best known for his work in musical theatre, originating iconic roles such as Georges Seurat in Sunday in the Park with George and Che in the original Broadway production of Evita.

Only a minority of the plays of English Renaissance theatre were ever printed ; of Heywood's 220 plays noted above, only about 20 were published in book form.

* Cuthbert Burbage ( 1566 – 1636 ), figure in English theatre noted for his role in the construction of the Globe Theatre

His talents had been noted by the director of the Comédie Française, Arsène Houssaye, who appointed him musical director of the theatre, with a brief to enlarge and improve the orchestra.

He was a major theatre star, noted for his performances on the British stage in Shaw's The Devil's Disciple ( 1938 ) and Heartbreak House ( 1942 ), Much Ado About Nothing ( 1946 ) and especially as Thomas Becket in T. S.

The humour had always been largely derived from their on-stage relationship, but whereas Hills and Green had cast Morecambe as the comic and Wise as the straight man, Braben inverted the relationship ; as theatre critic Kenneth Tynan noted, Braben made Wise's character a comic who was not funny, while Morecambe became a straight man who was funny.

The new theatre was built speedily, and accounts noted that it " was situated on a site which, though rich in historical associations, was also rich in the olfactory sense.

While advocates of the theatre indicated that in principle it should be possible for any actor to play any character and that the play itself has an anti-racist message, the critics noted that the letter unwillingly disclosed the general, unexpressed policy of German theatres, i. e., that white actors are accounted to be qualified for all roles, even black ones, while black actors were suitable only for black roles.

The theatre opened as the Capitol Cinema in 1932 and he is noted for its construction in Norfolk Carr stone as it contains the largest gable wall of carr stone in existence.

Beach Haven is home to multiple attractions, including the only amusement park on the island: Fantasy Island ,, off-Broadway quality professional equity theatre: Surflight Theatre, cabaret-style sing-for-your dessert entertainment: Showplace Ice Cream Parlour, Bay Village Shopping Center, Long Beach Island Museum and many distinctive shops and restaurants, including Tucker's Restaurant, noted in Philadelphia Magazine as the number one restaurant on Long Beach Island.

In 1982, the noted Scottish filmmaker and theatre director Bill Bryden made the Channel 4-funded film Ill Fares The Land about the last years of St Kilda.

Joan Maud Littlewood ( 6 October 1914 – 20 September 2002 ) was an English theatre director, noted for her work in developing the left-wing Theatre Workshop.

In an article for The Times, Grimond noted that the " tragedy of theatre " is that even the best performances fade from memory, and that Johnson's current reputation rests almost entirely on her performance in Brief Encounter.

He later noted that, " what had seemed no more than high spirits in the social whirl of London theatre not infrequently became boorish in what was now for me a more restrained environment.

Generally recognized as " father of Kinbaku " is Seiu Ito, who started studying and researching Hojōjutsu is credited with the inception of Kinbaku, though it is noted that he drew inspiration from other art forms of the time including Kabuki theatre and Ukiyoe woodblock prints.

* Kate Claxton ( 1850 – 1924 ) American theatre actress noted for her role of Louise in the play The Two Orphans.

Sir John Betjeman, however, a man not noted for his enthusiasm for brutalist architecture, was effusive in his praise and wrote to Lasdun stating that he " gasped with delight at the cube of your theatre in the pale blue sky and a glimpse of St. Paul's to the south of it.

Sharp, Founder and Artistic Director, Axis Theatre Co, noted Greenwich Village based experimental theatre company, and Director of independent film including the award winning Henry May Long

He became a noted violinist in Newcastle's subscription concerts before moving to Scarborough to lead a theatre orchestra.

Histriomastix represents the culmination of the Puritan attack on the English Renaissance theatre and celebrations such as Christmas, as noted in the following: " Our Christmas lords of misrule, together with dancing, masks, mummeries, state players, and such other Christmas disorders, now in use with Christians, were derived from these Roman Saturnalia and Bacchanalian festivals, which should cause all pious Christians eternally to abominate them.

Donald Thomas " Don " Evans ( April 27, 1938 – October 16, 2003 ) was a noted African-American playwright, theatre director, actor and educator.

Yeston noted, " I am as much a lyricist as a composer, and the musical theatre is the only genre I know in which the lyrics are as important as the music.