The signature of Alvar Aalto on the wall of Jyväskylä's theatre building.

It was the first theatre ( indeed the world's first public building ) to be lit entirely by electric lighting.

The Crest building on the corner of Blaxcell and Redfern Streets, was built by Hoyts in 1948 as a movie theatre and was used for screening movies up until 1963.

The only remaining railway building, a goods shed, has now been converted into a theatre which is run by HIADS.

It also contained a summer garden, winter garden and roof garden, an enormous restaurant and several smaller eating areas, its own laundry, a theatre and concert booking office, its own bank, whose strongrooms were underground at the eastern end of the building ( and generated their own history decades later ), and a large fleet of private delivery vehicles.

* Opera house – theatre building used for opera performances that consists of a stage, an orchestra pit, audience seating, and backstage facilities for costumes and set building.

His most significant remaining architectural work is the anatomical theatre, which was added to Gustavianum in the 1660s and crowned with the characteristic cupola for which the building is today known.

) When this original theatre building in New Castle was in danger of being demolished, the modern Warner Bros. called the modern building owners, and arranged a 3 way in hopes of saving it, between three men, Warner Bros, and the modern owners.

Until the early 20th century, the chief ancient buildings at Sparta were the theatre, of which, however, little showed above ground except portions of the retaining walls ; the so-called Tomb of Leonidas, a quadrangular building, perhaps a temple, constructed of immense blocks of stone and containing two chambers ; the foundation of an ancient bridge over the Eurotas ; the ruins of a circular structure ; some remains of late Roman fortifications ; several brick buildings and mosaic pavements.

With the building of new theatre facilities and the formation of new companies, the capital's total theatre capacity exceeded 10, 000 after 1610.

In 1558 the first German observatory was built in Kassel, followed in 1604 by the Ottoneum, the first permanent German theatre building.

State of the art electronics are used throughout the building and there is also a theatre showing historical films about the area.

Discussions have been held at local governmental level about demolishing this modern building and replacing it with a replica of the old theatre.

The original building, a converted movie theatre where artists such as Otis Redding, Isaac Hayes, Booker T. & the M. G.

The second important type of building that survives all over the Hellenic world is the open-air theatre, with the earliest dating from around 350 BC.

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 new Priory Square building is scheduled to open in 2012 and will provide a 160 seat lecture theatre and a suite of laboratories for science courses.

In July 1799, Dutch prisoners sought permission to use one building as a theatre.

The new 48-floor building, funded by the City of London and developed by Heron International, will house a 650-seat concert hall, a 220-seat theatre and a 90-seat studio theatre, as well as studios for television, radio, teaching, rehearsal, office and support services.

The theatre was the first theatre, and the first public building in the world, to be lit entirely by electricity.

WBAI is on the right track: in the sound medium there has been excessive emphasis on music and news and there could and should be a place for theatre, as the Canadian and British Broadcasting Corporations continue to demonstrate.

But quite conceivably an altogether different impression will obtain when the work is offered in the theatre and there can be other effects to relieve the burden on the author's words.

Universities will offer three-to four-year programs, where a student is often able to choose to focus on drama, while still learning about other aspects of theatre.

Other approaches may include a more physical approach, following the teachings of Jerzy Grotowski and others, or may be based on the training developed by other theatre practitioners including Sanford Meisner.

However, a special event to mark the signing is held every year on the 6th of April and involves a street procession and short piece of street theatre.

In the short and disastrous war of 1805 Archduke Charles commanded what was intended to be the main army in Italy, but events made Germany the decisive theatre of operations ; Austria sustained defeat on the Danube, and the archduke was defeated by Massena in the Battle of Caldiero.

In collaboration with Frederick Loewe, he created some of the world's most popular and enduring works of musical theatre for both the stage and on film.

In 1732, to avoid an unwanted marriage, he left the town for Milan and then for Verona where the theatre manager Giuseppe Imer helped him on his way to becoming a comical poet as well as introducing him to his future wife, Nicoletta Conio.

She returned to Pittsburgh to teach theater at the University of Pittsburgh and at the Pittsburgh Musical Theater's Rauh Conservatory as well as to perform in Pittsburgh theatre until her death on September 9, 2004.

People began recognizing Flockhart's acting ability when William Esper ( Mason Gross ' theatre director and Flockhart's acting teacher ) made an exception to policy by allowing Flockhart to perform on the main stage.

One of the more prominent places people see costumes is in theatre, film and on television.

Two heads found in the sanctuary and the Roman theatre at Nemi, which have a hollow on their back, lend support to this interpretation of an archaic Diana Trivia, in whom three different elements are associated.

In a traditional ancient Greek show of approval, his supporters " threw so many hats and shirts and cloaks on his head that he suffocated, and was buried in that same theatre ".

The International Festival centres on a programme of high-profile theatre productions and classical music performances, featuring international directors, conductors, theatre companies and orchestras.

Munch's figures appear to play roles on a theatre stage ( Death in the Sick-Room ), whose pantomime of fixed postures signify various emotions ; since each character embodies a single psychological dimension, as in The Scream, Munch's men and women now appear more symbolic than realistic.

Unlike the previous generation of British film makers who had broken into directing and production after careers in the theatre or on television, the Art Cinema Directors were mostly the products of Art Schools.

During World War I, many of the Germany possessions in the Pacific were conquered by Japan, who fought on the side of the Allies of World War I and was active in the Asian and Pacific theatre of World War I.

The story concerns a reunion in a crumbling Broadway theatre, scheduled for demolition, of the past performers of the " Weismann's Follies ," a musical revue ( based on the Ziegfeld Follies ), that played in that theatre between the World Wars.

In his theoretical and critical writings on the subject — as in his own plays — he tried to contribute to the development of a new bourgeois theatre in Germany.

The amphitheatre munus thus served the Roman community as living theatre and a court in miniature, in which judgement could be served not only on those in the arena below, but on their judges.

The work is studied by and has been the subject of criticism from both film and theatre scholars, with the former tending to study the film as shot, the latter tending to study the script as written.

The latter continued to develop the area and in 1842 opened a new theatre and sanatorium.

Her theatre career flourished with her portrayals of Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice ( 1940 ) and the second Mrs. de Winter in Rebecca ( 1940 ); the production of the latter was halted when the theatre was destroyed by a bomb in September 1940.

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 ".

Theatre-in-the-round was common in ancient theatre, particularly that of Greece and Rome but was not widely explored again until the latter half of the 20th century ; it has continued as a creative alternative to the more common Proscenium format.

The musical theatre | musicals of Andrew Lloyd Webber have dominated London's West End theatre | West End since the latter half of the 20th century.

The latter was staged by the Thin Language Theatre Company, which Sheen had co-founded in 1991, aiming to further Welsh theatre.

When the meagre results achieved by the new Singspiel programmes led the emperor to back down, getting an Italian opera buffa company recruited again and engaging Lorenzo da Ponte as his theatre poet, the latter was charged to prepare an Italian translation of Gluck ’ s opera, which was staged in the restored Burgtheater, on 14 December 1783.

In the latter half of the 18th century the theatre presented a wide variety of productions.

The latter is an outgrowth of the American theatre scene, particularly in New York, in the 1930s and 40s.

Of these, The Jewess of Toledo ( Die Jüdin von Toledo, written in 1851 ), an admirable adaptation from the Spanish, has won a permanent place in the German classical repertory ; Ein Bruderzwist in Habsburg is a powerful historical tragedy and Libussa is perhaps the most mature, as it is certainly the deepest, of all Grillparzer's dramas ; the latter two plays prove how much was lost by the poet's divorce from the theatre.

The theatre was, along with the adjacent St Martin's conceived by their architect, W. G. R. Sprague, as companions, born at the same time in 1913, but the First World War interrupted the construction of the latter for three years.

For a time he lived in a room at the back of the theatre and he was finally forced to sell shares in the latter to his brother-in-law, David Morris.

The latter having abruptly retired from the collaboration, Halévy was at a loss how to carry out the contract, when on the steps of the theatre he met Henri Meilhac ( 1831 – 1897 ), then comparatively a stranger to him.

Strasser sharpened her acting abilities in theatre, acting on Broadway, where she appeared in The Shadow Box and Chapter Two, the latter where she met her former husband, Laurence Luckinbill ; they were married in 1965 and divorced in 1976.

As in England, during the latter half of the century the theatre began to be cleaned up, with less prostitution hindering the attendance of the theatre by women.

Wang Lun also had an influence on younger German writers, including Lion Feuchtwanger, Anna Seghers, and Bertolt Brecht ; for the latter, Wang Lun provided an impluse for the development of the theory of epic theatre.

They have won the latter more times than any other Durham theatre group, having won 6 times including 5 wins in the past 6 years.

This latter tradition has been maintained every year regardless of which theatre the Regiment is serving in.

His system, based on the belief that certain exercises contributed more to poise, grace, beauty and health, and were therefore more beneficial in improving performances in singing, drama and dance, gained popularity in dance and theatre as well as physical education, though in the latter its popularity was limited and short-lived.

The Apostate, produced at the latter theatre on 3 May 1817, established his reputation as a dramatist.