His career began in the theatre ; he made his first appearance on the London stage in 1958 in Jane Arden's The Party, directed by Charles Laughton, who starred in the production along with his wife, Elsa Lanchester.

( 1968 ), and the Burton-directed Doctor Faustus ( 1967 ) ( which had its genesis from a theatre production he staged and starred in at the Oxford University Dramatic Society ) were critical and commercial failures.

In a career mainly devoted to the classical theatre, Scofield starred in many Shakespeare plays and played the title role in Ben Jonson's Volpone in Peter Hall's production for the Royal National Theatre ( 1977 ).

In theatre, he has starred in over 30 plays, and he has written and directed five.

Since Amadeus, he has mainly focused on classical theatre, and has starred in many Shakespearean productions such as Othello and Richard III, as well as many other plays by the likes of Samuel Beckett and Gilbert and Sullivan.

Pearce starred in several theatre productions when he was young and at 17 years of age auditioned for his first film role " Life and Study at University " a promotion for University study, produced and directed by Peter Lane of Deakin University.

In 1954, Clark had starred in a stage production of The Constant Nymph, but it wasn't until 1981, at the urging of her children, that she returned to legitimate theatre, starring as Maria von Trapp in The Sound of Music in London's West End.

Over the course of a career that has spanned five decades, she has starred in musical theatre, films and television, as well as performing in solo concerts and recordings.

Upon opening in London on 11 November 1899 at the Lyric Theatre, the show originally starred Evie Greene, Willie Edouin and Ada Reeve Running for an astounding-for-the-time 455 performances, and closing in March 1901, the show would prove as a training ground for numerous up-and-coming stars of the British theatre.

Miller worked steadily in film and theatre with less public notice until 2008, when he starred in two seasons of American TV series Eli Stone followed by lead roles in the Broadway play After Miss Julie and the BBC production of Emma.

Miller was born in Kingston upon Thames, London, England, the son of Anne Lee, who worked in theatre production and starred in many films ( including Lost & Found ), and Alan Miller, a stage actor and later a stage manager at the BBC .< ref >

On 6 July 2008, Gates starred in the line-up for " A Spoonful of Stiles & Drewe ", a charity fundraiser to celebrate 25 years of musical theatre composers George Stiles and Anthony Drewe.

Gold is also known as an actress in musical theatre, having starred in numerous shows in the West End, beginning with Joe Papp's London production of The Pirates of Penzance in 1982.

In 1991, he and four friends founded a theatre company, Raindog ( which is now primarily involved in television and film work ), and guest starred in The Bill.

Its first Broadway theatre production, in 1958, was directed by Peter Brook and starred Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne.

In August, 2006, Campino starred as Mack the Knife in Brecht's The Threepenny Opera at Berlin's Admiralspalast, a short distance from the theatre where the play premiered in 1928.

In March 2000, using nationalism as a platform, the ad starred a man named Joe: an " average Canadian ", standing in a movie theatre, with a cinema screen behind him showing different images relating to Canadian culture.

After two seasons of summer stock in Surry, Maine, he starred as Daniel Boone for the first three years ( 1952 – 1954 ) of Horn in the West in Boone, North Carolina and then moved to Denver, Colorado, where he appeared in about forty stage productions, in various theatre companies.

Kate Vaughan starred in Around the World in 80 Days at the theatre in 1886.

In 2010, he starred in the 50th Anniversary Broadway rival of the The Miracle Worker at the Circle in the Square theatre.

Blessed has also starred in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats as both Old Deuteronomy and Bustopher Jones during the original West End theatre production.

Bendre also starred in the theatre in a play called, Aap Ki Soniya.

Sothern also starred in H. J. Byron's An English Gentleman at the theatre in 1871.

In 2009 the theatre presented On the Waterfront ; Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart, Simon Callow and Ronald Pickup starred in Waiting for Godot ; followed by Breakfast at Tiffany's, starring Anna Friel, Joseph Cross, James Dreyfus and Suzanne Bertish.

Webb co-devised and starred in ' The Magic of the Musicals ', a UK concert tour featuring songs from musical theatre in 1992 opposite Opportunity Knocks winner Mark Rattray.

* Battle of Stalingrad, a 1942 – 1943 World War II battle, considered as the turning-point of the European theatre of the war

** Moriz Seeler, German writer, poet, film producer, and man of the theatre ( d. 1942 )

Gassman's debut was in Milan, in 1942, with Alda Borelli in Niccodemi's Nemica ( theatre ), he then moved to Rome and the Teatro Eliseo joining Tino Carraro and Ernesto Calindri in a team that remained famous ; with them he acted in a range of plays from bourgeois comedy to the sophisticated intellectual theatre.

The theatre was bombed to the ground during World War II in 1942.

The Guadalcanal Campaign, also known as the Battle of Guadalcanal and codenamed Operation Watchtower by Allied forces, was a military campaign fought between August 7, 1942 and February 9, 1943 on and around the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific theatre of World War II.

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.

He subsequently worked in repertory theatre in Birmingham and Bristol before making his London stage debut as Valentine in Twelfth Night in 1942.

During the Nazi occupation of Poland, he founded the Independent Theatre, and served as a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków as well as a director of experimental theatre in Kraków from 1942 to 1944.

* Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands ( 1942 ) – World War II Pacific theatre, Solomon Islands Campaign

It was further extended in 1859, later rebuilt as a variety theatre and finally destroyed by bombing in 1942.

Her early musical theatre appearances in New York included the Cotton Club Revue of 1938, Sing Out the News and The Priorities of 1942.

Originally christened the in Los Angeles in 1942, the ship served in the Pacific theatre and was mothballed in Philadelphia after World War II.

Khachaturian started composing the score in autumn 1941, and the ballet was first mounted on 3 December 1942 on the small stage of the Perm state theatre.

All units of the Second AIF were thereafter deployed to the South West Pacific theatre, although some individuals remained in other theatres on exchange or liaison duty, such as Vernon Sturdee, who was head of the Australian Military Mission in Washington, D. C. from 1942 to 1944.

Following their retreat to the western side of the Indian Ocean in 1942, British naval forces did not return to the South West Pacific theatre until 17 May 1944, when an Anglo-American carrier task force implemented Operation Transom, a joint raid on Surabaya, Java.

Don Sinclair Davis PhD ( August 4, 1942 – June 29, 2008 ) was an American character actor, theatre professor, painter and captain in the United States Army.

The Moon Is Down, a novel by John Steinbeck fashioned for adaption for the theatre and for which Steinbeck received the Norwegian Haakon VII Cross of Freedom, was published by Viking Press in March 1942.

His first appearance on Broadway was in Romeo and Juliet opposite Katharine Cornell in 1936, but he made his biggest impact in Shakespeare's Richard II, a production whose unexpected success was the surprise of the 1937 theatre season and allowed Evans to play Hamlet ( 1938 ) ( the first time that the play was performed uncut on the New York stage ), Falstaff in Henry IV, Part 1 ( 1939 ), Macbeth ( 1941 ) and Malvolio in Twelfth Night ( 1942 ) opposite the Viola of Helen Hayes, all under the direction of Margaret Webster.

The play was first produced in Blackpool in September 1942, during Coward's wartime tour of Britain after he returned to the theatre.

* March 10, 1942 Stilwell is named Chief of Staff of Allied armies in the Chinese theatre of operations.

In the 1942 Pacific War theatre of World War II, Lieutenant Sam Lawson, U. S. N.

The Battle of Guadalcanal, was fought between August 7, 1942, and February 7, 1943, in the Pacific theatre of World War II and was the first major offensive launched by allied forces against the Empire of Japan.

He had already carried out nine successful patrols in HMS Torbay in the Mediterranean theatre before the patrol in March 1942 which saw the incident which earned him the V. C.