Here, Mirbeau can be seen as anticipating the theatre of Bertolt Brecht, Marcel Aymé, Harold Pinter, and Eugène Ionesco.

He became prominent on the French stage at the Renaissance theatre ( Les Mauvais bergers, d ' Octave Mirbeau ), in 1897, then at Porte Saint-Martin theatre in 1900, and the Variétés in 1901.

Octave Mirbeau, to whom Maeterlinck dedicated his play, was impressed with the work, which stimulated a new direction in stage design and theatre performance.

In the interval he enjoyed the patronage of Ferdinando de ' Medici, for whose private theatre near Florence he composed operas, and of Cardinal Ottoboni, who made him his maestro di cappella, and procured him a similar post at the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome in 1703.

In the short and disastrous war of 1805 Archduke Charles commanded what was intended to be the main army in Italy, but events made Germany the decisive theatre of operations ; Austria sustained defeat on the Danube, and the archduke was defeated by Massena in the Battle of Caldiero.

The Copenhagen Casino was a theatre, known for the use made of its hall for mass public meetings during the 1848 Revolution which made Denmark a constitutional monarchy.

She attended the Professional Children's School, in New York City, and made her professional theatre debut in a 1966 production of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, starring Tammy Grimes.

People began recognizing Flockhart's acting ability when William Esper ( Mason Gross ' theatre director and Flockhart's acting teacher ) made an exception to policy by allowing Flockhart to perform on the main stage.

Studying avant-garde theatre and mime under Lindsay Kemp, he was given the role of Cloud in Kemp's 1967 theatrical production Pierrot in Turquoise ( later made into the 1970 television film The Looking Glass Murders ).

During their occupation of the town, they made such gestures as flying the tricolour over the Atheneum theatre, which they had made their headquarters, and parading uniformed in the streets.

These included An Elopement à la Mode and The Pickpocket: A Chase Through London, made by Alf Collins for the British branch of the French Gaumont company, Daring Daylight Burglary, made by Frank Mottershaw at the Sheffield Photographic Company, and Desperate Poaching Affray, made by the Haggar family, whose main business was exhibiting films made by others in their traveling tent theatre.

In 1815 he retired to his home in Bologna, where Domenico Barbaia, the impresario of the Naples theatre, contracted an agreement that made him musical director of the Teatro di San Carlo and the Teatro del Fondo at Naples.

At the same time, the audience for theatre was growing because of the rapidly expanding British population ; improvement in education and the standard of living, especially of the middle class ; improving public transportation ; and installation of street lighting, which made travel home from the theatre safer.

After working in national theatre and television, he made his film debut in 1972.

Polish patriots continued to form societies ( such as the Central Economic Society for the Grand Duchy of Poznań ), and a Polish theatre ( Teatr Polski, still functioning ) opened in 1875 ; however the authorities made efforts to Germanize the region, particularly through the Prussian Settlement Commission ( founded 1886 ).

Eisenstein's first film, Glumov's Diary ( for the theatre production Wiseman ), was also made in that same year with Dziga Vertov hired initially as an " instructor.

While little progress was made in the Iberian theatre, the Scipios were able to negotiate a new front in Africa by allying themselves with Syphax, a powerful Numidian king in North Africa.

Pauline Kael called the film " one of the most gruesomely terrifying movies ever made – and when you leave the theatre you may wish you could forget the whole horrible experience.

* Community theatre – theatrical performance made for a community that may be performed by community members, professionals, or a collaboration between community members and professional theatre artists.

In 1986 Nespolo had the possibility of designing the stage sets for Ferruccio Busoni ’ s opera Turandot at Connecticut Grand Opera, Stamford, the first of several theatre works he made in the following years, such as the sets and costumes for Paisiello's Don Chisciotte at the Teatro dell ' Opera di Roma in 1990 and for Donizetti's L ' elisir d ' amore, a production for the Rome Opera, the Paris Opera and the Opéra de Lausanne, Liège and Metz in 1995.

Young Vivian made her first stage appearance at the age of three, reciting " Little Bo Peep " for her mother's amateur theatre group.

The first successful permanent theatre showing nothing but films was " The Nickelodeon ", which was opened in Pittsburgh in 1905.

He is widely considered by theatre historians to be the first dramaturg.

It was the first theatre ( indeed the world's first public building ) to be lit entirely by electric lighting.

Apart from some western troupes ' 19th-century visits, the first professional performance of Hamlet in Japan was Otojiro Kawakami's 1903 Shimpa (" new school theatre ") adaptation.

These two examples occurred when first, Midias punched Demosthenes in the face in the theatre ( Against Midias ), and second when ( in Against Conon ) a defendant allegedly assaulted a man and crowed over the victim.

After finishing the 1859 – 1860 theatre season in Richmond, Virginia, Booth embarked on his first national tour as a leading actor.

He worked as an advertising agent after studying acting at the Hickman School of Speech and Expression in Washington, D. C. His work as a theatre critic inspired him to become involved in theatre productions, first in Virginia, and then in New York.

He went on to study law at Prague University ; during that time he also became involved in theatre ( as an actor he first appeared in Jan Nepomuk Štěpánek's play Czech and German in July 1832 in Benešov ), where he met Eleonora Šomková, with whom he had a son out of wedlock.

Milford first appeared at the stock theatre in Chicago at age 10.

* 1895 – Henry Irving becomes the first person from the theatre to be knighted.

Peake's play The Cave, which dates from the mid-1950s, was given a first public reading at the Blue Elephant Theatre in Camberwell ( London ) in 2009, and had its world premiere in the same theatre, directed by Aaron Paterson, on 19 October 2010.

After quitting law school to pursue theatre, Hammerstein began his first professional collaboration, with Herbert Stothart, Otto Harbach and Frank Mandel.

This was one of the first occasions satirical political mimicry had been attempted in live theatre and it shocked audiences.

The center is the first one in the world named after him, with a Broadway theatre the second.

The CIA's elite Special Activities Division ( SAD ) units were the first U. S. forces to enter Afghanistan ( noting that many different countries intelligence agencies were on the ground or operating within theatre before SAD, and that SAD are not technically military forces, but civilian paramilitaries ).

The city hosted Estonia's first song festival in 1869, as well as the Vanemuine, the first national theatre, in 1870.

It was the custom at the Conservatory to introduce a promising student to the public with a dramatic work: the result was Bellini's first opera Adelson e Salvini an opera semiseria that was presented at the Conservatory's theatre.

The first theatrical adaptation of Wings of Desire was created by the Northern Stage theatre company in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK in 2003.

He was Pylades to William Charles Macready's Orestes in Ambrose Philips's Distressed Mother when Macready made his first appearance at that theatre ( 1816 ).

Climb the steps from the theatre to the Via Della Tribuna Di Campitelli for an even better view of the Columns of Apollo.

Just a few steps in south-eastern direction lies the 19th century theatre.

The goddess ' appearance offered contrasting colours to the eye, for her body was dazzling white, intimating her descent from heaven and her robe was dark blue, denoting her emergence from the sea ... But now becomingly took the centre of the stage to the great acclamation of the theatre, and smiled sweetly ... still more affectingly began to gently stir herself ; with gradual, lingering steps, restrained swaying of the hips, and slow inclination of the head she began to advance, her refined movements matching the soft wounds of the flutes.

She has also taken several steps into theatre.

Especially well known are the theatre productions which are performed every year in the centre of the city on the steps of St. Michael.

The latter having abruptly retired from the collaboration, Halévy was at a loss how to carry out the contract, when on the steps of the theatre he met Henri Meilhac ( 1831 – 1897 ), then comparatively a stranger to him.

The first show was a transfer of Schweyk in the Second World War, Directed by Howard Davies, transferred from the Other Place in Stratford and opening on 18 July 1977 ; the electricity for the theatre was turned on just 30 minutes before curtain up and the concrete steps up to the theatre still wet ( Sally Beauman, ibid ).

In September, Johnny kills Daniel, gunning him down as he steps out of a theatre.

In the summertime, local theatre productions use the building as a backdrop for classic Greek plays such as Euripides ' Medea and Sophocles ' Antigone, performing ( usually for free ) on the steps of the Parthenon.