Suites of the ballet music were heard in Moscow and the United States, but the full ballet premiered in the Mahen Theatre, Brno ( then in Czechoslovakia, now in the Czech Republic ), on 30 December 1938.

Written in 1887, the opera lay unproduced for many years and was first performed at the Divadlo na Hradbách ( today's Mahen Theatre ) in Brno on November 11, 1925 in honour of Janáček ’ s 70th birthday.

Mahenova knihovna ( Mahen's Library, Brno City Library ) is named after Mahen.

In prose, the work of the modernist generation was only now coming into its own, but the different stylistic waves that affected their prose are also evident in the work of the new generation — naturalism ( A. M Tilšchová ); impressionism ( Šrámek, Gellner, Jiří Mahen, Jan Opolský, Rudolf Těsnohlídek ); the Vienna Secession ( Růžena Svobodová, Jan Karásek ).

* 1939 – Jiri Mahen, Czech author ( b. 1882 )

Jiří Mahen ( December 12, 1882 – May 22, 1939 ) was a Czech novelist, playwright and essayist.

Mahen was the cousin of the novelist Vladislav Vančura.

A friend of Janáček, Jiří Mahen, was then enlisted to help overhaul sections of the opera.

Mahen was uninformed as to how many others had worked on the piece, and was also unaware that it was actually completely done and set to music.

After spending much time on the opera, Mahen was also surprised to learn that not only had the work been finished, but that Viktor Dyk had been penned as the librettist.

The two bishops of Alet, first Rethwalatr and then Mahen are very obscure figures.

Among the contributors and editors of the old Lidové noviny, there were Karel Čapek, Josef Čapek, Richard Weiner, Eduard Bass, Karel Poláček, Rudolf Těsnohlídek, Jiří Mahen, Jan Drda, Václav Řezáč and the presidents Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk and Edvard Beneš.

Janáček explained this in a letter to Mahen ( naturally, he demanded satisfaction ) saying that Dyk had approved of the original version Janáček had in mind, that so many others tried to change and had then supplied a more appropriate ending that fits more to Čech ’ s ending of the story.

The world premiere of the opera was given at the National Theatre in Brno on December 18, 1926, conducted by František Neumann.

The first performance was at the National Theatre () in Brno on 23 November 1921.

Janáček submitted the opera to the Brno Theatre in 1906, and to the Vinohrady Theatre in Prague in 1907, but both theatres rejected the score.

The score stayed with the Vinohrady Theatre even after Janáček had threatened lawsuits against the theatre and after the Brno theatre made offers of a possible production.

This two-part satirical opera was premiered at the National Theatre in Prague on April 23, 1920, the only Janáček opera not premiered in Brno.

The stage premiere of the Ur-version of Brouček ( without the excursion to the 15th century ) took place at the Janáček Theatre Brno on 19 November 2010 as part of the Janáček Biennale, conducted by Jaroslav Kyzlink, with Jaroslav Březina in the title role.

The premiere of the Ur-version ( 1887 ) of Šárka took place on 26 November 2010 at the Reduta Studio Theatre Brno as part of the Janáček Biennale, conducted from the piano by Ondrej Olos, with Lucie Kašparová in the title role.

A Czech production opened at Brno City Theatre ( Městské divadlo Brno ) in November, 2010.

The Motion Picture Theatre Owners of America and the Independent Producers ' Association declared war in 1925 on what they termed a common enemy — the " film trust " of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Paramount, and First National, which they claimed dominated the industry by not only producing and distributing motion pictures, but by entering into exhibition as well.

Following a series of screenings which he and the National Film Theatre programmer Karel Reisz organized for the venue of independently-produced short films by himself and others, he developed a philosophy of cinema which found expression in what became known, by the late-1950s, as the Free Cinema movement.

The earliest account of a performance of what was probably Shakespeare's play is April 1611, when Simon Forman recorded seeing such a play at the Globe Theatre.

In 1971, the Arab-American scholar Ihab Hassan published The Dismemberment of Orpheus: Toward a Postmodern Literature, an early work of literary criticism from a postmodern perspective, in which the author traces the development of what he calls " literature of silence " through Marquis de Sade, Franz Kafka, Ernest Hemingway, Beckett, and many others, including developments such as the Theatre of the Absurd and the nouveau roman.

Several major performing arts venues were constructed during the 1920s, including what are now the Landmark Theatre, Byrd Theatre, and Carpenter Theatre.

To celebrate the 300th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth in 1864 the brewer, Charles Edward Flower, instigated the building of a temporary wooden theatre, known as the Tercentenary Theatre, which was built in a part of the brewer's large gardens on what is today the site of the new, and temporary, Courtyard Theatre.

The play had limited popularity in the early twentieth century, but John Gielgud exploded onto the world's theatrical consciousness, through his performance as Richard at the Old Vic Theatre in 1929, returning to the character in 1937 and 1953 in what ultimately was considered as the definitive performance of the role.

The new moving-coil speaker system was installed in New York's Warners Theatre at the end of July and its patent submission, for what Western Electric called the No. 555 Receiver, was filed on August 4, just two days before the premiere of Don Juan.

The Regent Theatre opened in 1919 in what was formerly a late 19th century horse livery.

Originally built in 1923, the stage of the Concrete Theatre has entertained audiences with vaudeville, boxing matches, silent films and later what were known as " the talkies ".

It also houses what is said to be the first private Little Theatre in the U. S., dating to 1896.

He made what he considered his West End debut as a straight actor in Siege by David Ambrose at the Cambridge Theatre in 1972, co-starring with Alastair Sim and Michael Bryant.

At their last concert at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley, they were joined onstage by founder Tom Johnston for what was presumed to be the final rendition of his staple, " China Grove ".

Richard Bong is the namesake of the Richard Bong State Recreation Area on the site of what was to be Bong Air Force Base in Kenosha County, Wisconsin, the Richard I. Bong Memorial Bridge along US Route 2 in the Twin Ports of Duluth, Minnesota and Superior, Wisconsin, the Richard I. Bong Airport in Superior, the Bong Barracks of the Aviation Challenge program, the Richard I. Bong Bridge in Townsville, Australia, the Major Richard Ira Bong Squadron of the Arnold Air Society at the University of Wisconsin, the Richard Bong Theatre in Misawa, Japan and the 613th Air and Space Operations Center, Thirteenth Air Force, Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii.

He admired Eastern theatre because of the codified, highly ritualized and precise physicality of Balinese dance performance, and advocated what he called a " Theatre of Cruelty ".

In music, Conrad was an early ( though not original ) member of the Theatre of Eternal Music, nicknamed The Dream Syndicate, which included John Cale, Angus MacLise, La Monte Young, and Marian Zazeela, and utilized just intonation and sustained sound ( drones ) to produce what the group called " dream music " ( and is now called drone music ).

The tour saw the band playing much larger venues than before and included the Dominion Theatre again and what turned out to be their only gig outside the UK, in Marburg, Germany.

Gloria Foster was not sure what occupation to pursue, until her godmother introduced her to the Goodman Theatre in Chicago.

In 1990, he produced Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil's next musical Miss Saigon, which opened at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London, and was similarly successful, and the Broadway production achieved what was then the largest advance ticket sales in theatre history.

On March 8, 1968 Bill Graham opened the Fillmore East in what had been a Yiddish Theatre on Second Avenue at East 6th Street.

Most of what little biographical information there is about him is derived from the papers of Philip Henslowe, proprietor of the Rose Theatre.