In 2007, the Fulton Opera House in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle, Washington were the only professional theaters in the United States to be granted the production rights to West Side Story on the 50th anniversary of its Broadway opening.

Opening on 24 November 1951 on Broadway at the Fulton Theatre, the play ran for 219 performances ( finishing on 31 May 1952 ) and Hepburn's debut on Broadway earned her a Theatre World Award.

Harris appeared as a character in the play Oscar Wilde, written by Leslie & Sewell Stokes, at the Fulton Theatre, New York, 1938, starring Robert Morley in the title role.

Its eight-week run at the Fulton Theatre in Pittsburgh attracted over 50, 000 people with reservations being made from cities located one hundred miles from the venue.

The Fulton Opera House, also known as the Fulton Theatre or simply The Fulton, is a League of Regional Theatres class C regional theater located in historic downtown Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

The Fulton is also a member of ASSITEJ, the International Association of Theatre for Children and Young People.

* Fulton Theatre

* Sitting Pretty Broadway production opened at the Fulton Theatre on April 8 and moved to the Imperial Theatre on June 9 for a total run of 95 performances

* George White's Scandals of 1923 Broadway revue opened at the Globe Theatre on June 18 and transferred to the Fulton Theatre on November 5 for a total run of 168 performances

Broadway production opened at the Fulton Theatre on November 20 and ran for 69 performances.

In 1955 the former Fulton Theatre on 46th Street in New York City's Broadway theater district was renamed the Helen Hayes Theatre.

In 1955 the Fulton Theatre was renamed for her.

Morley made his West End stage debut in 1929 in Treasure Island at the Strand Theatre and his Broadway debut in 1938 in the title role of Oscar Wilde at the Fulton Theatre.

* Title role in Oscar Wilde ( Fulton Theatre, New York, October 1938 )

Fulton completed his education in 1939 deciding to enter the world of acting, after a backstage visit at the Glasgow Pavilion Theatre.

After a short period, Fulton returned to Scotland to perform for Howard & Wyndham Ltd in pantomime from 1956 at the Alhambra Theatre, Glasgow with Jimmy Logan and Kenneth McKellar followed by the Five Past Eight summer revues with Stanley Baxter and Fay Lenore.

Fulton was a very close friend of Jackson, and had been his private secretary for a number of years in the old days.

Failing to heed the lesson so clearly contained in the satellite treaties, President Truman re-declared the Cold War on March 12, 1947, in the Truman Doctrine, exactly one week after the Herald Tribune editorial was written, and a year after the Cold War had been announced by Churchill at Fulton, Missouri, in Truman's presence.

The September-October term jury had been charged by Fulton Superior Court Judge Durwood Pye to investigate reports of possible `` irregularities '' in the hard-fought primary which was won by Mayor-nominate Ivan Allen Jr..

In March 2009 a Fulton County, Ga., State Court jury awarded $ 2. 3 million in damages to a 4-year-old boy and his mother for a botched circumcision in which too much tissue was removed causing permanent disfigurement.

Thus, female medical missionary Dr. Mary H. Fulton ( 1854-1927 ) was sent by the Foreign Missions Board of the Presbyterian Church ( USA ) to found the first medical college for women in China.

For many years, a staple of New Year's Eve television programming in Scotland was the comedy sketch show Scotch and Wry featuring the comedian Rikki Fulton, which invariably included a hilarious monologue from him as the preternaturally-gloomy Reverend I. M.

When asked whether he felt Donaldson's role as an informer in Sinn Féin was significant, the IRA double agent using the pseudonym " Kevin Fulton " described Donaldson's role as a spy within Sinn Féin as " the tip of the iceberg ".

Plans for the use of eminent domain to remove the shops in the area bounded by Vesey, Church, Liberty, and Fulton streets began in 1961 when the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey was deciding between the east side of Lower Manhattan and the west side near the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad terminals.

Ruth Benedict ( born Ruth Fulton, June 5, 1887 – September 17, 1948 ) was an American anthropologist and folklorist.

Ruth Benedict was born in New York City on June 5, 1887, to Beatrice and Frederick Fulton.

Mrs. Fulton was deeply affected by her husband ’ s passing.

He was depicted along with Robert Fulton.

After the flood was cleaned up, express service was able to resume on September 17 with trains running between Van Cortlandt Park – 242nd Street and 14th Street, making local stops north of and express stops south of 96th Street, while and trains made all stops in Manhattan ( but bypassed all stations between Canal Street and Fulton Street until October 1 ).

In response, Michigan commissioned a second survey that was carried out by John A. Fulton.

The Fulton survey was based upon the original 1787 Ordinance Line, and after measuring the line eastward from Lake Michigan to Lake Erie, it found the Ohio boundary to be south of the mouth of the Maumee River.

Thomas J. Watson was the only son of Thomas and Jane Fulton White Watson.

The first usage of the term torpedo to refer to a naval explosive was by American inventor Robert Fulton.

Fulton successfully destroyed demonstration targets in both France and Britain, but neither government was interested in purchasing the vessel and Fulton's experiments ceased in 1805.

This term had been used during World War II by German Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels and later Count Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk in the last days of the war ; however, its use was hugely popularised by Winston Churchill, who used it in his famous " Sinews of Peace " address March 5, 1946 at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri:

It was located at 255 – 257 Pearl Street in Manhattan on a site measuring 50 by 100 feet, just south of Fulton Street.

In 1838, Fulton County was split off from Montgomery.

In 1838, Fulton County was split off from Montgomery, shortly after the Montgomery county seat was moved to Fonda, New York.

The creation of Fulton County was engineered by Johnstown lawyer Daniel Cady, whose wife was a cousin of Robert Fulton.

* Vesalius four centuries later by John F. Fulton.

The old Tryon County courthouse, later the Montgomery County courthouse, became the Fulton County Courthouse, where it is the oldest operating courthouse in New York.

Boulton and Watt had been involved in a minor way with attempts to apply steam power to boats, providing in 1807 for Robert Fulton the engine for North River Steamboat, the first steamboat to run on the Hudson river, ( the boat later referred to as the Clermont ).

Principal streets in the town center are still named for the railroad's officers, except Fulton Street, which was later named Front Street, then Main Street, and is now Clovis Avenue.

During the American Civil War, Fort Lincoln ( later known as Fort Osaga and Fort Fulton ) was built and operated near Fulton as part of the Fort Scott defense, mostly as a prisoner-of-war camp.

The Missouri General Assembly had voted to establish an asylum for the insane in Fulton ( February 26, 1847 ), the first mental health facility west of the Mississippi ; the General Assembly agreed ( February 28, 1851 ) to establish a school for the education of the deaf in Fulton ; in 1842 the Presbyterian Church had opened a female seminary later known as Synodical College ; in the fall of 1851 the Presbyterian Church established the all-male Fulton College, now known as Westminster College ; and Fulton was the seat of county government.

Over the years there have been a number of public schools built ( and some later removed, sold or retrofitted for housing ) in neighborhoods of Fulton and surrounding towns.

At one time there were also two Catholic schools, viz., St. Mary's School ( also known as Fulton Catholic School for a few years ) and Holy Family School affiliated respectively with the Church of the Immaculate Conception ( later known as Holy Trinity ) and Holy Family Roman Catholic Church.

The Moratock Iron Furnace, which is found in Moratock Park, was used in the smelting of iron ore. General George Stoneman's raid passed through Danbury on April 9, 1865, the day of the surrender of Confederate forces at Appomattox Court House, Va. Other historical features in the town include the Wilson Fulton House, the Old Stokes County Court House, and Moody's Tavern ( later McCanless Hotel ).

In November 1937, conservative commentator Fulton Lewis Jr., heard five nights weekly from Mutual affiliate WOL, became the first national news personality to broadcast out of Washington, D. C .; he would remain with the network until his death almost three decades later.

* Fulton J. Sheen ( Auxiliary Bishop, 1951 – 1965, later bishop of Rochester ; interred 1979 )

Some forty years later, in 1838, Johnstown's county affiliation changed yet again when what by then remained of Mongomery County was divided into two separate counties: Montgomery and Fulton.

Following the 1932 merger, the Cobb County town of Roswell was also ceded to Fulton four months later on May 9, 1932.

Black left the boat and settled at a crossroads 14 miles northeast of Fulton that would later become Washington, Arkansas and Black's permanent home.

Another example is the thirty-year government-granted monopoly that was granted to Robert Fulton by the State of New York in steamboat traffic, but was later ruled by the U. S. Supreme Court to be unconstitutional because of a conflicting inter-state grant to Thomas Gibbons by the federal Congress.

Six days later, he firebombs a crowded # 4 train at Fulton Street, injuring over 40.

Suffering from Alzheimer's disease in his later years, Fulton died in 2004, aged 79 years.

Alongside his Scotch and Wry co-stars, Gregor Fisher and Tony Roper, Fulton made two appearances in Rab C. Nesbitt ; once in 1988 and ten years later in 1998.

In 1992, Fulton was awarded the Order of the British Empire and a year later, the Lifetime Achievement award from BAFTA Scotland.