* Philby, Burgess and MacLean – Spy Scandal of the Century, a BBC drama produced for TV in 1977, covers the period of the late 1940s, when British intelligence investigated Kim Philby's colleague Donald Maclean until 1955 when the British government cleared Philby because it did not have enough evidence to convict him.

* A hit teen drama, Roswell, aired in the late 1990s and early 2000s, focuses on four teenage alien-human hybrids, Max Evans, Isabel Evans, Michael Guerin and Tess Harding living in Roswell, New Mexico.

The Good German, a romantic drama set in post-war Berlin starring Cate Blanchett and Clooney, was released in late 2006.

By the late fifties, he regularly appeared on television: as Sean Connery's trainer in boxing drama Requiem for a Heavyweight ( 1957 ), with Charlie Drake in the sitcom Drake's Progress ( BBC, 1957 ) and a title role in Three ' Tough ' Guys ( ITV, 1957 ), in which he played a bungling criminal.

During the late 1970s, Straczynski also became the on-air entertainment reviewer for KSDO-FM and wrote several radio plays before being hired as a scriptwriter for the radio drama Alien Worlds.

In late 1959, historian and Beijing Deputy Mayor Wu Han published a historical drama entitled Hai Rui Dismissed from Office.

In late 1995, he appeared in Devious, an amateur video drama set between the second Doctor's trial at the end of The War Games and before the start of Spearhead From Space, which shows an interim ( between second and third ) Doctor played by Tony Garner being told he was " never meant to be the Doctor " and that the third, played by Jon, will complete him.

By the late 1930s, radio drama was widely popular in the United States ( and also in other parts of the world ).

The Learning Tree is a 1969 drama film which tells the story of a young African American growing up in rural Kansas during the late 1920s and early 1930s, when racial discrimination was a social norm and legally sanctioned in parts of the United States.

This story, popularized in historical novels written by Allan W. Eckert in the late 1960s, remains well known in Ohio, where an outdoor drama celebrating the life of the white Indian chief was performed yearly in Xenia, Ohio from 1981 until 2007.

The broadcasts of live drama, comedy, music and news that characterize the Golden Age of Radio had a precedent in the Théâtrophone, commercially introduced in Paris in 1890 and available as late as 1932.

This includes the entirety of the soap opera Coronation Street which is now held at the Yorkshire Television archive, which itself possesses largely intact archives ( although some early colour shows from the late 1960s and the early 1970s such as the entire output of the drama Castle Haven, the first two series of Sez Les and the children's variety show Junior Showtime are missing and believed wiped ).

By the late 1950s, radio broadcasting took on much the form it has today strongly focused on music, talk, news and sports, though drama can still be heard, especially on the BBC.

In late 1925, Bow returns to New York to co-star in the Ibsenesque drama Dancing Mothers, as the good / bad " flapperish " upper-class daughter " Kittens ".

With a total lack of figurative representation, what drama there is to be found in a late Rothko is in the contrast of colors, radiating, as it were, against one another.

In drama, the late Qing saw the emergence of the new " civilized drama " ( 文明戏 ), a hybrid of Chinese operatic drama with Western-style spoken drama.

Until the late 19th century, literary criticism as an academic exercise dealt solely with poetry ( including epic poems like the Iliad and Paradise Lost, and poetic drama like Shakespeare ).

Pretty Woman was initially conceived to be a dark drama about prostitution in Los Angeles in the late 1980s.

In late 2007, he made a significant guest appearance in an episode of the popular and critically acclaimed CBS crime drama Criminal Minds.

During the reign of Elizabeth I in the late 16th and early 17th century, a London-centred culture that was both courtly and popular produced great poetry and drama.

Connected with this group are the Eger, the Donaueschingen, Augsburg, Freising and Lucerne Passion Plays, in which the whole world drama, beginning with the creation of man and brought down to the coming of the Holy Ghost, is exhibited, and which was produced with great splendour as late as 1583.

Dinesh subasinghe also composed music for ' katu otunna stage drama which is based on the story of Jesus and it was directed by ' Clement Fernadao ' who is a student of late Proff.

The influence of these plays on European drama was largely the reason for the interest in Kyd among German scholars in the nineteenth century.

The story line, from the early nineteenth century, was based on a real life drama, the story of Leonarda Ruan.

Papp went on to produce four more of Hwang's plays, including the Pulitzer Prize-nominated drama The Dance and the Railroad, which tells the story of a former Chinese opera star working as a coolie laborer in the nineteenth century, and Family Devotions, a darkly comic take on the effects of Western religion on a Chinese family.

The play premiered in 1891 in Germany to negative reviews, but has subsequently gained recognition as a classic of realism, nineteenth century theatre, and world drama.

While Webster's drama was generally dismissed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, many twentieth century critics and theatregoers find The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi to be brilliant plays of great poetic quality and dark themes.

By the mid to late nineteenth century, the popularity of Indian drama quickly declined, mostly due to many satires written in jest of the excessive bravado and grandiose common to such plays.

Late nineteenth century drama, 1850 – 1900, 2nd ed.

This 1633 quarto was the only edition of the play in Rowley's era ; the drama would not be reprinted until the nineteenth century.

The second half of the sixteenth century in England was the setting for a violent and long controversy over the moral quality of renaissance literature, especially the drama.

The most important English chronicles are the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, started under the patronage of King Alfred in the 9th century and continued until the 12th century, and the Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland ( 1577 – 87 ) by Raphael Holinshed and other writers ; the latter documents were important sources of materials for Elizabethan drama.

From the early 17th century, the play was famous for its ghost and vivid dramatisation of melancholy and insanity, leading to a procession of mad courtiers and ladies in Jacobean and Caroline drama.

At the same time there was from the latter part of the 18th century an increased interest in depicting in the form of history painting moments of drama from recent or contemporary history, which had long largely been confined to battle-scenes and scenes of formal surrenders and the like.

The Theatre Museum shows an exhibition of the history of the theatre in Hanover from the 17th century up to now: opera, concert, drama and ballet.

Goebbels earned a Ph. D. from Heidelberg University in 1921, writing his doctoral thesis on 19th century romantic drama ; he then went on to work as a journalist and later a bank clerk and caller on the stock exchange.

Greek tragedy in verse dates to the 6th century B. C., and may have been an influence on the development of Sanskrit drama, just as Indian drama in turn appears to have influenced the development of the bianwen verse dramas in China, forerunners of Chinese Opera.

By the end of the 18th century, in addition to the trivium and quadrivium of the Middle Ages, the definition of a classical education embraced study of literature, poetry, drama, philosophy, history, art, and languages.

Other 21st century British science fiction shows have included the time travel drama Life on Mars, its sequel Ashes to Ashes, Being Human, Eleventh Hour and Primeval on ITV.

French drama of the 17th century, particularly that of Molière and Racine was highly regular ; whereas the English dramatists writing for the Elizabethan and Jacobean stage were largely unaware of these strictures.

The oldest liturgical drama ( 12th century ) written already in old Spanish language was a codex found in the library of the Toledo Cathedral.

The work is considered an imitation of a Medieval mystery play, a type of drama popular in the 14th century.

In 2005, he appeared on television as the older version of legendary 18th century Italian adventurer Giacomo Casanova in the BBC drama serial Casanova.

The Classical unities of time, action and place were the main principles of French neo-classical drama during part of the 17th century. They were introduced by Jean Mairet after a misreading of Aristotle's Poetics, and the critic Castelvetro insisted that playwrights and directors adhere to the unities.

The treatment of Penthesilea that has received most critical attention since the early twentieth century, however, is the drama Penthesilea by Heinrich von Kleist, who cast its " precipitously violent tempo " in the form of twenty-four consecutive scenes, without formal breaks into acts.

* Lynchburg Museum: Through the doors of the Lynchburg Museum one can relive the city's past, rich with tales of Monacan tribes, early Quaker settlers, the reign of King Tobacco, the bloody struggle of the Civil War, the New South, and the drama of change in the 20th century.

* Cato, a Tragedy, 18th century drama by Joseph Addison, based on the life of Cato the Younger

In the 20th century, the poet Nairi Zarian retold the story of Ara the Beautiful and Shamiram, in a work considered to be a masterpiece of Armenian literary drama.

By the early 19th century, few English dramas were being written, except for closet drama, plays intended to be presented privately rather than on stage.