Keith Johnstone ’ s work at the Royal Court Theatre in the late 1950s is seen as an important framework for contemporary improvisational theatre today.

" Film critic David Richard Jones adds that Kazan, during the 1940s and 1950s, was one of America's foremost Stanislavskians, and " influenced thousands of contemporaries " in the theatre, film, and the Actors Studio that he helped found.

Zeffirelli has also been a major director of opera productions since the 1950s in Italy, Europe, and the U. S. He began his career in the theatre as assistant to Luchino Visconti.

Through the 1950s and 1960s he established himself as a respected actor in theatre and film, and began to make his presence felt on television, with a semi-regular role as Det-Insp Bamber in the police series Z-Cars, as well as guest roles in series as diverse as Steptoe and Son (" The Lead Man Cometh ", 1964 ; " The Desperate Hours ", 1972 ) and The Avengers episode " Dressed to Kill " ( 1963 ).

After the new wave of social realist theatre in the 1950s and 1960s, the play fell out of fashion, and was dismissed as an example of outdated bourgeois " drawing room " dramas, and became a staple of regional repertory theatre.

He began his acting career in theatre and on live television in the early 1950s.

Archaeological excavations in the 1950s and 1960s uncovered remains from many periods, in particular, a complex of Crusader fortifications and a Roman theatre.

The Theatre of the Absurd () is a designation for particular plays of absurdist fiction written by a number of primarily European playwrights in the late 1950s, as well as one for the style of theatre which has evolved from their work.

D ' Lo had a one-screen movie theatre called the Lux Theatre located downtown-but it survived only until the 1950s.

Her career also faced turmoil as a result of her marriage to Parks, and the two spent much of the 1950s doing theatre and musical variety shows.

Dame Edna Everage, a comic creation of Barry Humphries, debuted in Melbourne in the 1950s and has featured at the West End theatre | West End and Broadway theatre | Broadway.

She returned to theatre ( between films ) more often in the 1950s and 1960s, playing in London and on tour in such roles as Edith Fenton in The Hat Trick ( 1950 ); Felicity, Countess of Marshwood, in Relative Values ( 1951 and 1953 ); Grace Smith in A Question of Fact ( 1953 ); Lady Yarmouth in The Night of the Ball ( 1954 ); Mrs. St. Maugham in The Chalk Garden ( 1955 – 56 ), Dame Mildred in The Bright One ( 1958 ); Mrs. Vincent in Look on Tempests ( 1960 ); Mrs. Gantry ( Bobby ) in The Bird of Time ( 1961 ); Mrs. Moore in A Passage to India ( 1962 ); Mrs Tabret in The Sacred Flame ( 1966 and 1967 ); Prue Salter in Let's All Go Down the Strand ( 1967 ); Emma Littlewood in Out of the Question ( 1968 ); Lydia in His, Hers and Theirs ( 1969 ); and others.

Her career began in theatre during the late 1950s, and over the next decade included several films and television series.

They created a string of popular Broadway musicals in the 1940s and 1950s, initiating what is considered the " golden age " of musical theatre.

In the early 1950s, Rowlands performed with repertory theatre companies and at the Provincetown Playhouse.

The piece was popular with amateur theatre groups, particularly in Britain, into the 1950s.

Live theatre and variety shows remained the mainstay of Matthews ' work through the 1950s and 1960s, with successful tours of Australia and South Africa interspersed with periods of less glamorous but welcome work in British provincial theatre and pantomimes.

In the 1950s there was an explosion of an ethnically diverse and socially committed theatre.

Chamberlain co-founded a Los Angeles-based theatre group, Company of Angels, and began appearing in TV series in the 1950s.

The 1950s then brought motion pictures to the Majestic, and not long after that the theatre, along with much of the surrounding neighborhood, fell into disrepair.

Margaretta Scott, English actor of stage, film and television ( 1912 – 2005 ) lived in the village with her husband Composer John Wooldridge, daughter actor Susan Wooldridge and son theatre producer Hugh Wooldridge during the 1950s.

By the early 1930s, she had established herself as one of the most prominent theatre actresses of her era and she was a major star on Broadway throughout the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s.

A brief resurgence of production beginning in the early 1970s yielded the Mutual Broadcasting System's The Zero Hour ( hosted by Rod Serling ), National Public Radio's Earplay, and veteran Himan Brown's CBS Radio Mystery Theater and General Mills Radio Adventure Theater, later followed by the Sears / Mutual Radio Theater, The National Radio Theater of Chicago, NPR Playhouse, a newly produced episode of the former 1950s series X Minus One, and works by a new generation of dramatists, notably Yuri Rasovsky, Thomas Lopez of ZBS and the dramatic sketches heard on humorist Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion.

In the mid 1950s, when the Our Gang comedies were sweeping the nation on TV, McFarland hosted an afternoon children's show, The Spanky Show, on KOTV television in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

The most notable polygraph TV show is Lie Detector, which first aired in the 1950s created and hosted by Ralph Andrews.

TV news pioneer Edward R. Murrow hosted a talk show entitled Small World in the late 1950s and since then, political TV talk shows have predominantly aired on Sunday mornings.

In the late 1950s UPA produced a television series for CBS hosted by Gerald McBoing-Boing.

Prior to the opening of Melching Field, the Hatters played at old Conrad Park on the same site, which also hosted spring training games in the 1940s and 1950s and the DeLand Red Hats, a Florida State League minor league franchise.

In the 1950s Jasper hosted a local fair celebrating its dairy industry.

Band leader Vincent Lopez hosted a radio program in the early 1950s called Shake the Maracas in which audience members competed for small prizes by playing the instrument with the orchestra.

* guest spots on every major television show of the 1950s and 1960s, including those hosted by Ed Sullivan, Milton Berle, Perry Como, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Johnny Carson, Joey Bishop, Art Linkletter, and Jimmy Dean.

Since 2002, Van Zandt has hosted Little Steven's Underground Garage, a weekly syndicated radio show that celebrates garage rock and similar rock sub-genres from the 1950s to the present day.

During 1950s, Winchell hosted children's and adult programs with his figures for NBC Television, and later for syndication.

In the early 1950s, Lopez along with Gloria Parker hosted a radio program broadcast from the Taft Hotel called Shake the Maracas in which audience members competed for small prizes by playing maracas with the orchestra.

The Blue Fairy was a 1950s children's program on WGN-TV in Chicago, hosted by Brigid Bazlen as the fairy.

Mercer has hosted It Seems Like Yesterday, which examines pop-culture from the 1950s to the 1980s.

From the 1950s to 1987, SIL training was hosted by the University of Oklahoma in Norman.

After moving to New York City he hosted several radio programs, including game shows, in the late 1940s and 1950s.

Through the 1940s and 1950s, Lee hosted a series of semi-annual " Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death.

The show has been frequently staged in the London Palladium theatre, and in the 1950s and 1960s a television show based on the same idea, called Sunday Night at the London Palladium and hosted by many entertainers, including Bruce Forsyth, ran for over 20 years.

Garroway, Studs Terkel, and Hugh Downs all hosted relaxed, garrulous, extemporaneous shows in that city in the early 1950s.

The McGuires and Andrewses met several times throughout their careers, and Phyllis credited Patty, Maxene, and LaVerne during a television interview with Maxene in the 1990s, hosted by Sally Jessy Raphael, saying that she and her sisters met the Andrews Sisters in New York in the early 1950s and received important advice.

At the end of August during the 1950s, Labatt Park annually hosted athletes from across the city's playgrounds competing in a variety of sports during a two-to three-day event, called the " Junior Olympiad.

Wallace hosted a number of game shows in the 1950s, including The Big Surprise, Who's the Boss?

He hosted an Emmy Award-winning television series, Robert Montgomery Presents, in the 1950s.

Throughout the 1950s and 1960s the town's Rink venue ( now demolished and the site of industrial units ) hosted to major British and American pop stars and Gene Vincent appeared in the town on 7 September 1963.

In its heyday from 1930 through the early 1950s, 52nd Street clubs hosted such jazz legends as Miles Davis, Harry Gibson, Dizzy Gillespie, Billie Holiday, Nat Jaffe, Marian McPartland, Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Louis Prima, Art Tatum, Fats Waller, and many more.