After the financial collapse of the Italian opera company in 1777 due to financial mis-management, Joseph II decided to end the performance of Italian opera, French spoken drama, and ballet.

* The Colonial Radio Theatre on the Air radio drama production company

Besides a number of appearances in films produced by her company, Flower Films, including Charlie's Angels, Barrymore had a dramatic role in the comedy / drama Riding in Cars with Boys ( 2001 ), playing a teenage mother in a failed marriage with the drug-addicted father ( based on the real-life story of Beverly D ' Onofrio ).

His production company, Grammnet Productions, produces the CW sitcoms Girlfriends and The Game which is now on BET, the NBC drama Medium, and is involved in many other projects.

This is carried out in detail in the Fach system of German speaking countries, where historically opera and spoken drama were often put on by the same repertory company.

* May 10 – The Royal Dramatic Theatre ( Kungliga Dramatiska Teatern ), Sweden's national drama company, is founded.

She studied sociology at Miranda House, Delhi University, where she became involved in political street theater and performed for three years in an amateur drama company.

The Parkway Playhouse, the oldest continually operating summer stock theater company is located in Burnsville, and was started in 1947 by W. R. Taylor ( a professor of drama from the Woman's College of North Carolina-now the University of North Carolina-Greensboro ) and a group of dedicated community leaders.

" Neither Kintner nor NBC was ever implicated in the scandal and NBC cancelled the show when it heard about the scandal, but Enright claimed before his death that Geritol's complaints about the lack of drama and suspense in the unrigged premiere prompted the company to rig the show.

Fashions in the drama would change almost week by week rather than season by season, as each company responded to the offerings of the other, and new plays were urgently sought.

Though on first release the film was lauded by critics, it was a commercial disaster with the home audiences and the critics, and prompted John Davis, the head of the Rank Organisation to announce that he was pulling out of British New Wave, " kitchen sink " drama, nor would his company make such a " squalid " film again.

Twelve years later, after drama, diction and fencing classes, she was spotted in a charity show by a producer, who offered her a job in his repertory theatre company in Cambridge.

In 1959, United Artists offered its first ever television series, The Troubleshooters ( after failing to sell several pilots in the previous few years ), an adventure / drama on NBC, starring Keenan Wynn and Bob Mathias, as employees of an international construction company.

Television historian Lez Cooke described Lambert's time in control of the drama department at Thames as " an adventurous period for the company, demonstrating that it was not only the BBC that was capable of producing progressive television drama during the 1970s.

BBV was a video and audio production company specialising in science fiction drama, known for its links with the British science fiction television series Doctor Who ( founder Bill Baggs is a fan, and BBV productions often feature characters and / or actors from the series ).

Terry Deary studied at drama college and worked as an actor-teacher at the TIE company in Wales.

Dafoe studied drama at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, but left after a year-and-a-half to join the experimental theater company Theatre X in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, before moving to New York City in 1976.

The company also produced the detective drama Inspector Morse in association with Zenith Productions, a production company originally set up to be an in-house subsidiary of Central specialising in high-cost filmed drama, but which in 1987 was sold to Carlton Communications, the company that eventually was to purchase Central itself.

She then turned to drama, and two of her plays were produced at London's Drury Lane theatre by David Garrick's company in the 1760s.

My curiosity was sharpened a day or two before the interview by a conversation I had with a well-informed teacher of literature, a Jesuit father, at a conference on religious drama near Paris.

Into the texture of this tapestry of history and human drama Henrietta, as every artist delights to do, wove strands of her own intuitive insights into human nature and -- especially in the remarkable story of the attraction and conflict between two so disparate and fervent characters as this pair -- into the relations of men and women: `` In their relations, she was the giver and he the receiver, nay the demander.

The second half of the sixteenth century in England was the setting for a violent and long controversy over the moral quality of renaissance literature, especially the drama.

But when the situation was so complicated that even Nogaret, one of the principal actors in the drama, could misinterpret the pope's motives, it is possible that Othon and his companions, equally baffled, attributed their difficulties to a more immediate cause.

In any case, anyone who fails to make significant distinction between primary and secondary applications of economic pressure would in principle already have justified that use of economic boycott as a means which broke out a few years ago or was skillfully organized by White Citizens' Councils in the entire state of Mississippi against every local Philco dealer in that state, in protest against a Philco-sponsored program over a national TV network on which was presented a drama showing, it seemed, a `` high yellow gal '' smooching with a white man.

A few literary men defended what they took to be an emphasis on the poetry at the expense of the drama, but the response was mainly hostile and quite violent.

Henry de Montherlant's French drama La Reine morte was inspired by the conflict between King Afonso and Pedro and Inês.

The challenge to the assumption that beauty was central to art and aesthetics, thought to be original, is actually continuous with older aesthetic theory ; Aristotle was the first in the Western tradition to classify " beauty " into types as in his theory of drama, and Kant made a distinction between beauty and the sublime.

A further blow to his career was landed when the spoken drama and musical Singspiel were placed on an equal footing.

Along with Bubba Ho-tep, he also played a supporting role in Sky High, He also was featured in the Jim Carrey drama The Majestic.

This radio drama styled interpretation of the novel was released through independent label Rykodisc and spans 6 discs with a 6 hour running time.

After graduation from high school in 1952, against his parents ' wishes, he majored in drama at San Francisco City College, where he was a classmate of future actress Lee Meriwether.

The Kid ( 1921 film ) | The Kid ( 1921 ), with Jackie Coogan, combined comedy with drama and was Chaplin's first film to exceed an hour.

Dealing with issues of poverty and parent – child separation, The Kid is thought to be influenced by Chaplin's own childhood and was the first film to combine comedy and drama.

Submitting it to Count Prata, director of the opera, he was told that his piece " was composed with due regard for the rules of Aristotle and Horace, but not according to those laid down for the Italian drama.

While the Browns ' on-field play in 1956 was uninspiring, off-the-field drama developed after a Cleveland-based inventor named George Sarles let Brown test a helmet with a radio transmitter inside.

This drama was about the ups and downs of being a college cheerleader.

Five months after the release of Tommy, The Kinks released another concept album, Arthur ( Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire ) ( September 1969 ), written by Ray Davies ; though considered by some a rock opera, it was originally conceived as the score for a proposed but never realised BBC television drama.

In 2011, it was announced that Barrymore had been cast alongside John Krasinski in Ken Kwapis's Big Miracle ( 2012 ), a romantic drama based on the 1989 book Freeing the Whales, which covers Operation Breakthrough, the 1988 international effort to rescue gray whales from being trapped in ice near Point Barrow, Alaska.

Tzara's last attempt at a Dadaist drama was his " ironic tragedy " Handkerchief of Clouds in 1924.

Hopper was voted most likely to succeed at Helix High School, where he was active in the drama club, speech and choir.

Instead, he turned this life situation into an aesthetically shaped, successful drama.

In opera or drama, he is often portrayed with a black face and a white crescent shaped birthmark on his forehead.

It can be argued that “ the Black Arts movement produced some of the most exciting poetry, drama, dance, music, visual art, and fiction of the post-World War II United States ” and that many important “ post-Black artists ” such as Toni Morrison, Ntozake Shange, Alice Walker, and August Wilson were shaped by the movement.