Under the administration of President Bill Clinton in 1993, its name was changed to the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization ( BMDO ) and its emphasis was shifted from national missile defense to theater missile defense ; and its scope from global to more regional coverage.

Pete Harrison, a respected journalist, suggested that the Senate pass a bill allowing theater owners to refuse to show films that “ were not in the best interest of our country .” That did not happen, but one of the ways that some senators attempted to retaliate for the damage they felt the film had done to the reputation of their institution was by pushing the passage of the Neely Anti-Block Booking Bill, which eventually led to the breakup of the studio-owned theater chains in the late 1940s.

The name " Ballistic Missile Defense Organization " ( BMDO ) came back into use in 1993 when SDIO was renamed BMDO by the administration of President Bill Clinton and this was accompanied by a shift in emphasis from national missile defense to theater missile defense, i. e. from global to regional coverage.

* March 8 – Bill Graham opens the Fillmore East in an abandoned movie theater in New York City.

Past winners include: Film and theater director Peter Brook ( 1992 ), Choreographer Merce Cunningham and composer John Cage ( 1993 ), Artist Bruce Nauman ( 1994 ), Choreographer and filmmaker Yvonne Rainer ( 1995 ), Filmmaker Martin Scorsese ( 1996 / 97 ), Painter Gerhard Richter ( 1998 ), Sculptor Louise Bourgeois ( 1999 ), Artist Robert Rauschenberg ( 2000 ), Architect Renzo Piano ( 2001 ), Choreographer William Forsythe ( 2002 ), Designer Issey Miyake ( 2004 ), Choreographer Bill T. Jones ( 2005 ), and Filmmaker Spike Lee ( 2008 ).

" Bill Schadewald of the Houston Press said that Greenway Plaza, which housed office towers, retail operations, a basketball arena, a movie theater, and a hotel, " defined the multiuse concept in an original “ Edge City .”"

Other theater and dance works include music for Bill Irwin's Broadway show, Strictly NY, and productions by the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, Ammi Legendre, Nikki Apino and House of Dames and the Crispin Spaeth Dance Company.

Having one year remaining on his GI Bill, he studied drama at the University of Southern California, working towards a master's degree in theater history.

The main theater in Harrah's Reno was named Sammy's Showroom after entertainer Sammy Davis, Jr. ( who's Deusenberg replica now resides in the museum that bears Mr. Harrah's name ), and actor-comedian Bill Cosby recalls Harrah as a good friend.

The Bill Graham Presents company was retained to provide the oversight of the theater booking and operations.

When Bill Banning, the owner of a San Francisco movie theater and a huge fan of the film, arranged for a theatrical release, the film gained a " buzz " and toured U. S. as an art-house hit.

Bill Dow ( Dr. Lee ) was doing theater work in Vancouver during the filming of this episode, necessitating the producers to schedule around his availability.

The manager of a movie theater received a telephone call from a woman who was equally indefinite.

He won three D. H. Lawrence Awards for theatrical production and direction and received a Beckerman Award for his outstanding contributions to the school's theater arts division.

She received three years of Spanish ballet training and four years of theater at Cristina Rota's New York school.

Several notable stars of the day received classical theater training, among them actress Nanette Fabray.

The theater received its next name, The Theater at Madison Square Garden, in the mid-90s, after Viacom bought Paramount and sold the MSG properties.

The town has become a haven for freelance workers in the world of theater, including scenic designers, artistic directors, lighting designers, and stage directors, several of whom have received the highest DC theater honor, the Helen Hayes Award.

In late February 2011, the theater received a $ 175, 000 state grant to renovate the building.

In addition, most of his campaigns were in the Western theater of the war, which received less attention both in the press of the day and in contemporary historical accounts.

She received a Bachelor in Fine Arts degree ( in theater arts ) from Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri.

He received his GED in 1983 at the age of 18, and then went to Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts where he majored in theater.

Although he received his law degree from the University of Chicago Law School in 1934, he decided instead of practicing law, he wanted to be a concierge at a hotel, and he soon joined a theater group.

The Dutch-funded Trafic ( Traffic ), although originally designed to be a TV movie, received a theater release in 1971 and placed Monsieur Hulot back at the centre of the action.

She returned to theater again in 1995, acting alongside Mary Alice ( who was later to replace her in The Matrix films following her death ), appearing as 103-year-old Sadie Delany, in Having Our Say, on Broadway at the Booth Theatre, for which she received rave reviews.

The original concept album received critical accolades, with Rolling Stone raving that the " dazzling score covers nearly all the pop bases ", Kurt Ganzl's Blackwell Guide to the Musical Theatre on Record telling readers about the " thrilling exposition of an exciting piece of modern musical theater occurring before the event " and Time declaring that the " rock symphonic synthesis was ripe with sophistication and hummable tunes ".

To accommodate the airlines, Travis Field received a new control tower and an airline terminal in the former base theater.

Michaels, who has also composed musical scores for the theater, has said " when you put a tremendous amount of love into your work, as in any relationship, you can't know -- you can only hope -- that what you're offering will in some way be received.

Young received the Order of the Crown of Italy for a series of lectures on American theater.

Kunstler served in the U. S. Army during World War II in the Pacific theater, attaining the rank of Major, and received the Bronze Star.

Cunningham initially received his first formal dance and theater training at the Cornish School ( now Cornish College of the Arts ) in Seattle, which he attended from 1937 to 1939 at age 20.

When the British received their new M4 Shermans from America, it quickly transferred approximately 1, 700 M3s to the China-Burma-India ( CBI ) theater, deploying about 800 M3s to Australian forces and about 900 M3 tanks to Indian forces.

After she received a bachelor's degree in theater from Ball State University, she moved to California to earn her master's degree from the University of California at Los Angeles ( UCLA ).

Notably, no one was killed at the packed theater because the manager received warning via Van Wert County Emergency Director Rick McCoy and evacuated everyone to safer shelter.

In 1977, Pierce received the Yaddo Medal for character and scholarship and worked in theater while a counselor at Camp Kabeyun in New Hampshire.

One of the English language cinema depictions of the role that was not critically acclaimed by either American cinema critics or American stage theater critics was by Warren Mitchell in 1996 who had earned the Laurence Olivier Award for Actor of the Year in a Revival in 1979 for his West End theatre performance of the role.

In theater she worked with Renaud Cojo, Michel Dydim, Valérie Crunchant, Christophe Guichet, Laurence de la Fuente and others.

By summer 2005, the theater had garnered 36 Joseph Jefferson awards and three Laurence Olivier Awards.

A second theater, the 200-seat black box " Upstairs " space, is devoted to smaller but still-popular productions such as The Second City's smash hit, Romeo and Juliet Musical: The People Vs. Friar Laurence, The Man Who Killed Romeo and Juliet.

He spent his youth in New York City, working on Broadway in theater productions with actors such as Richard Burton, John Gielgud, Laurence Olivier and Anthony Quinn.

In 1991, she ventured into the theater in Eurydice, which earned Marceau the Moliere Award for Best Female Newcomer.

She has performed in many television shows, theater productions and movies, earning a variety of awards for her acting, including an Obie Award, a Golden Satellite Award and a Saturn Award.

Hawke has appeared in many theater productions including The Seagull, Henry IV, Hurlyburly, The Cherry Orchard, The Winter's Tale and The Coast of Utopia, for which he earned a Tony Award nomination.

The Helen Hayes Award for theater in the Washington D. C. area is named in her honor.

Thigpen had a long and prolific theater career, and appeared in numerous musicals including Godspell, The Night That Made America Famous, The Magic Show, Working, Tintypes and An American Daughter ( for which she won her Tony Award for her portrayal of Dr. Judith Kaufman in 1997 ).

This led to her winning an Obie Award or Off-Broadway Theater Award, which is an, “ annual award bested by The Village Voice newspaper to theater artists and groups in New York City ".

The movie about the life and times of Harvey Milk, the San Francisco city Supervisor who was America's first openly gay elected official ( portrayed by actor Sean Penn, who won an Academy Award for his performance ), had its world premiere at the theater in November 2008.

Short resumed work in the theater, playing a lead role in the 1993 musical version of the Neil Simon film The Goodbye Girl, on Broadway, receiving a Tony Award nomination and an Outer Critics Circle Award.

* F. Murray Abraham – actor of stage and screen ; professor of theater, winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor

Among his theater credits are Wendy Wasserstein's Third at Lincoln Center, for which he won the Clarence Derwent Award and the Martin E. Segal Award for his portrayal of the title character ; the Off Broadway production of The Beginning of August, and the role of Tim in the world premiere of Neil LaBute's play The Distance From Here at London's Almeida Theatre.

He was the first white actor nominated by the black theater community of New York for the AUDELCO Award for the Best Actor for his performance in the play " Shades of Brown " which examined the effects of apartheid in South Africa.

# Education, Culture and Arts Minister Rookie Award in theater acting division, 2000

She attended Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, where she won the prestigious Lorne Greene Award for outstanding work in the theater.

In 1983, Menken received the BMI Career Achievement Award for his body of work for musical theater, including Little Shop of Horrors, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, Real Life Funnies, Atina: Evil Queen of the Galaxy ( produced in workshop as Battle of the Giants ), Patch, Patch, Patch, and contributions to numerous revues including Personals and Diamonds.

She worked in theater, television and film during her early career, and achieved recognition for her Broadway debut in Burn This, winning a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play in 1989.

Other theater productions Erdman choreographed during this period include the Helen Hayes Repertory production of Shakespeare's Hamlet ( 1964 ), the Lincoln Center Repertory production of García Lorca's Yerma ( 1962 ) and the New York Shakespeare Festival production of the rock-opera Two Gentleman of Verona ( 1971 ) which ran on Broadway for two years and for which Erdman received the Drama Desk Award and a Tony nomination.