In theatre, television and motion pictures, the great actors Walter Plinge, David Agnew, and George Spelvin are pseudonyms used for cast members who prefer to go unnamed.

Catherine Robbe-Grillet ( née Rstakian ; born 1930 ) is a French theatre and cinema actress and photographer who has published BDSM-related writings under the pseudonyms Jean de Berg and Jeanne de Berg.

He was " the creator of ... that cage which is the theatre of Shakespeare's Othello, Racine's Phèdre, of Ibsen and Strindberg ," in which "... imprisoned men and women destroy each other by the intensity of their loves and hates ", and yet he was also the literary ancestor of comic dramatists as diverse as Menander and George Bernard Shaw.

* George Sand ( 1980 ) ( text by Mia Meyer ) Music theatre work for 8 mixed voices, 4 pianos

He is a noted interpreter of the musical works of Stephen Sondheim, and is best known for his work in musical theatre, originating iconic roles such as Georges Seurat in Sunday in the Park with George and Che in the original Broadway production of Evita.

These were followed by the numerous Edwardian musical comedies and the musical theatre works of American creators like George M. Cohan.

Lardner also had a lifelong fascination with the theatre, although his only success was June Moon, a comedy co-written with Broadway veteran George S. Kaufman.

In 1990, Sondheim took the Cameron Mackintosh chair in musical theatre at Oxford, and in this capacity ran workshops with promising writers of musicals, such as George Stiles, Anthony Drewe, Andrew Peggie, Paul James, Stephen Keeling and others.

George Bernard Shaw, for example, reviewed the play in the Saturday Review, arguing that comedy should touch as well as amuse, " I go to the theatre to be moved to laughter.

" Carte and his manager, George Edwardes ( later famous as manager of the Gaiety Theatre ), introduced several innovations at the theatre including free programme booklets, the orderly " queue " system with numbered tickets for the pit and gallery ( an American idea ), tea served at the interval and a policy of no tipping for cloakroom or other services.

The New York Timess theatre critic George Jean Nathan wrote that Lerner's book was based on a much older German story by Friedrich Gerstäcker, later translated by Charles Brandon Schaeffer, about the mythical village of Germelshausen that fell under a magic curse.

George Augustus Richardson managed the theatre from November 1911 to February 1915.

It is not known how long the theatre remained on the site, but it was reinvigorated in 1777 and during 1778 George Frederick Cooke acted there, but in the winter of 1779 it was destroyed in fire.

During the run, theatre producer Vinton Freedley saw her perform and invited her to audition for the role of San Francisco café singer Kate Fothergill in the new George and Ira Gershwin musical Girl Crazy.

The King's Opera House ( now rebuilt as Her Majesty's Theatre ) ( 1816 – 1818 ) where he and George Repton remodelled the theatre, with arcades and shops around three sides of the building, the fourth being the still surviving Royal Opera Arcade.

* George Ball, actor, Broadway theatre performer

A man from Prentiss was initially hired to run the theatre, but he was soon " sent packing " and Edgar French informed his son, George Lewis French, that " You're taking over that picture show.

* George Peck ( theatre ) – Founder of the Oxford School Of Drama

He had sufficiently recovered from wartime injuries to appear at the London Coliseum on 19 June 1916, as Rahmat Sheikh in The Maharani of Arakan, with Lena Ashwell ; at the Playhouse in December that year as Stephen Weatherbee in Charles Goddard & Paul Dickey's play The Misleading Lady ; at the Court Theatre in March 1917 he played Webber in Partnership and at that theatre the following year appeared in Eugène Brieux's play, adapted from the French, Damaged Goods ; at the Ambassadors Theatre in February 1918 he played George Lubin in The Little Brother, and during 1918 toured as David Goldsmith in The Bubble.

At least, that is what is demonstrated in a rich, exciting, melodramatic way in the Kanin's own plushy production ... George Cukor, in his direction, amply proves that he knows the theatre, its sights and sounds and brittle people.

Briers has spent much of his career in theatre work, including appearances in plays by Shakespeare and George Bernard Shaw.

Other sources say his thesis was never completed because he became sidetracked by the Irish theatre, making his stage debut in 1948 as an actor at the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin with Cyril Cusack's company in a production of George Bernard Shaw's The Devil's Disciple.

The George Bernard Shaw Theatre is a black box theatre with a capacity of 100.

Garrick showed an enthusiasm for the theatre very early on and he appeared in a school production around this time in the role of Sergeant Kite in George Farquhar's The Recruiting Officer.

George Bernard Shaw commented that her design was the only one that showed any theatre sense.

George Seaton ( April 17, 1911 – July 28, 1979 ) was an American screenwriter, playwright, film director and producer, and theatre director.

Georgina apparently experienced her first symptoms after an episode in a movie theatre where she suddenly felt as if the darkness had surrounded her completely.

The name has also been used occasionally in American theatre, as has the more popular George Spelvin.

Biographer David Buckley writes, " The essence of Bowie's contribution to popular music can be found in his outstanding ability to analyse and select ideas from outside the mainstream — from art, literature, theatre and film — and to bring them inside, so that the currency of pop is constantly being changed.

Jerome David Kern ( January 27, 1885 – November 11, 1945 ) was an American composer of musical theatre and popular music.

He refused to authorise the birching of prisoners and was responsible for the relaxation of the laws relating to divorce, abolition of theatre censorship and gave government support to David Steel's Private Member's Bill for the legalisation of abortion and Leo Abse's bill for the decriminalisation of homosexuality.

" 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.

He won an Arts Council bursary to work as a director at the Midland Arts Centre, Birmingham and founded the Avon Touring Company, a Bristol-based community theatre company, with writer David Illingworth.

The first real theatre in Stratford was a temporary wooden affair built in 1769 by the actor David Garrick for his Shakespeare Jubilee celebrations of that year to mark Shakespeare's birthday.

It also includes a number of blogs by Evening Standard writers, such as restaurant critic Charles Campion, theatre critic Kieron Quirke and music critic David Smyth.

In 1769, she joined David Garrick's theatre company when he staged the Stratford Jubilee.

** 1913: The ' lost ' silent version, mentioned above ( in theatre ), starring Minnie Maddern Fiske as Tess and Scots-born David Torrence as Alec.

Nevertheless, the play has been intermittently popular, revived in productions in various forms and adaptations by some of the leading theatre practitioners in Shakespearean performance history, beginning after a long interval with David Garrick in his adaptation called Florizel and Perdita ( first performed in 1754 and published in 1756.

In 1980, David Jones ( director ), former Associate Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company chose to launch his new theatre company at the Brooklyn Academy of Music ( BAM ) with The Winter's Tale starring Brian Murray supported by Jones ' new company at BAM In 1983, the Riverside Shakespeare Company mounted a production based on the First Folio text at The Shakespeare Center in Manhattan.

In 1953, Barksdale Theatre was founded at the historic Hanover Tavern, becoming the nation's first dinner theatre and Central Virginia's first professional theatre .< ref > Auburn, David.

While Saul og David is one of Denmark's most important musical works for the theatre, it is difficult to stage as the really dramatic episodes are often separated by longer, less dynamic sequences.

From September 2007 through June 2008, he returned to the theatre scene appearing as Shelly Levene in a new West End production of David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross at London's Apollo Theatre.

All of the original cast ( except Harold Ramis ) were from the Toronto branch of The Second City theatre improv troupe, and many had previously worked together on The David Steinberg Show.

* David Wayne, Hollywood film and Broadway theatre actor

Richard David Briers, CBE ( born 14 January 1934 ) is an English actor, whose career has encompassed theatre, television, film and radio.

Through the years Eye has had a deer park, a leper hospital, a gaol, a workhouse, a David Fisher theatre, a coaching inn with posting establishment, a working men's hall and reading room, an Esther, a guildhall, a grammar school, 20 pubs ( including beer houses ) and an airfield which was occupied by the 480th and 490th USAAF Bomb Groups during World War II.

Among his more notable former students are music theorists David Lewin and John Rahn, composers Donald Martino, Laura Karpman, Tobias Picker, Paul Lansky, and John Melby, the theatre composer Stephen Sondheim, and the jazz guitarist and composer Stanley Jordan.

Despite The Times declaring, " We can remember no better Petruchio ", the opportunity of working again with David Lean, in The Passionate Friends ( 1949 ), drew Howard back to film and, although he had a solid reputation as a theatre actor, his dislike of long runs, and the attractions of travel afforded by film, convinced him to concentrate on cinema from this point.

David Garrick ( 19 February 1717 – 20 January 1779 ) was an English actor, playwright, theatre manager and producer who influenced nearly all aspects of theatrical practice throughout the 18th century and was a pupil and friend of Dr Samuel Johnson.

As he aged, Gielgud sought out distinctive new voices in the theatre, appearing in plays by Edward Albee ( Tiny Alice ), Alan Bennett ( Forty Years On ), Charles Wood ( Veterans ), Edward Bond ( Bingo, in which Gielgud played William Shakespeare ), David Storey ( Home ), and Harold Pinter ( No Man's Land ), the latter two in partnership with his old friend Ralph Richardson, but he drew the line at being offered the role of Hamm in Beckett's Endgame, saying that the play offered " nothing but loneliness and despair ".