Shortly after its premiere at the Astor Theater, New York, Bosley Crowther, film critic for The New York Times, hailed the film as a masterpiece.

* Borislav Zdravković, Poet and Theater critic.

In appraising a 1999 staging of Sheridan's comedy at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota, one critic found the " staunchly orthodox production " to be lacking, commenting that

In New York he was appointed as an editor of Theater Arts Magazine and as drama critic for The New Republic.

* Shoyo Tsubouchi, playwright, critic, translator, educator, professor of English literature, and namesake of Tsubouchi Memorial Theater Museum

From 1967 to 1970, he worked as critic and editorial journalist for the journal Theater heute ( Theater Today ).

* Joe Bob's Drive-In Theater: Airing on Saturday nights from 1986 to 1997, this feature was hosted by Joe Bob Briggs ( played by actor and film critic John Irving Bloom ).

Iffland was also a dramatic critic, and German actors placed high value on his reasonings and hints about their works in his Almanach für Theater und Theaterfreunde.

Theater critic Alvin Klein called Presnell " a winning leading man ", and wrote: As an actor, Mr. Presnell promises much, and as a singer, he delivers.

Adolf Bäurle, a local critic, wrote " if Schikaneder and partner Zitterbarth had had the idea ... to charge admission simply for looking at the glories of their Theater an der Wien, Schikaneder would certainly have been able to take in vast sums of money without giving one single performance.

Literary critic Harold Bloom has declared Sabbath's Theater Roth's " masterwork.

" Prominent literary critic James Wood told ' Morning News, " I am a great fan of Sabbath ’ s Theater, it was an extraordinary book.

* Law & Order: Special Victims Unit ( in episode " Theater Tricks " as Theater critic ), January 11, 2012

Plays " at the American Repertory Theater, critic John Lahr said of Ong: " blessed with a singular theatrical voice, he's at the beginning of what is already an exciting career.

" Of that play's subsequent London production at the Almeida Theater, critic Michael Billington of the Guardian wrote that Ong " has a remarkable gift for distilled dialogue and for pinning down the fragmentation, solitude and despair of the city of dreams.

* David Cote ( writer ), Theater editor and critic for Time Out New York, essayist and blogger

Other films shot in widescreen were the musical Happy Days ( 1929 ) which premiered at the Roxy Theater, New York City, on February 13, 1930, starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell and a 12 year old Betty Grable as a chorus girl ; Song o ’ My Heart, a musical feature starring Irish tenor John McCormack and directed by Frank Borzage ( Seventh Heaven, A Farewell to Arms ), which was shipped from the labs on March 17, 1930, but never released and may no longer survive, according to film historian Miles Kreuger ( the 35mm version, however, debuted in New York on March 11, 1930 ); and the western The Big Trail ( 1930 ) starring John Wayne and Tyrone Power, Sr. which premiered at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood on October 2, 1930, all of which were also made in the 70mm Fox Grandeur process.

*" The Battle of Corydon, Indiana " — Article by Civil War historian / author Bryan S. Bush, which contains rare images of Morgan shown courtesy of the Civil War Museum of the Western Theater in Bardstown, Kentucky.

* Musician and local historian Brendan Woods authored a Theater Production about the breakout titled The Catalpa Directed by Gerry Atkinson with a cast of 22.

However, according to film historian Peter Cowie's notes for the DVD release of the film, while Bergman wanted to recreate as closely as possible the original 1791 production in the Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna, he had hoped that the film could be shot in the theatre.

Other writers to have praised Bread & Puppet include historian Howard Zinn, who praises its " magic, beauty, and power ", and poet and NPR commentator Andrei Codrescu, who wrote: " The Bread & Puppet Theater has been so long a part of America's conscious struggle for our better selves, that it has become, paradoxically, a fixture of our subconscious.

Free walking tours, led by famed Miami historian Dr. Paul George leave from the Tower Theater at 7pm each festival.

After graduation from Armored Force Officer Candidate School, he was assigned as a combat historian in the European Theater of Operations, and following the war was assigned to interview many of the defendants prior to the Nuremberg Trials, including Hermann Göring.

* " The Battle of Corydon, Indiana " — Article by Civil War historian / author Bryan S. Bush, which contains rare images of Morgan shown courtesy of the Civil War Museum of the Western Theater in Bardstown, Kentucky.

* 1979 Selection, The Burns Mantle Theater Yearbook, The Best Plays of 1978-1979

A memorial service was held a few days later at The Woodland Hills MGM Theater ; among those attending the service was television and film producer Kevin Burns.

Forming just after them in 1979, Panther Burns drew on obscure country blues music, Antonin Artaud's works like The Theater and Its Double, beat poetry, and Marshall McLuhan's media theories for their early inspiration.

Burns adamantly supported this plan and on June 5, 6, and 7, 1916 at the Blackstone Theater in Chicago, delegates and female voters met to organize the National Woman's Party ( NWP ).

Burns accepted the challenge and showed up at the Olympic Theater dressed in his regular farmer ’ s overalls.

The tribute show, recorded July 13, 2005 at the Crystal Theater in Okemah, Oklahoma, included Paul performing a duet with The Burns Sisters on " God's Promise ".

They have been cited as an influence by various musical artists, including Metallica, Primus, and The Smashing Pumpkins, as well as progressive metal bands such as Dream Theater and Symphony X.

Some of the musicians that have cited the band as an influence include Anthrax, Nirvana, Def Leppard, Dream Theater,

Kaprow ’ s piece 18 Happenings in 6 Parts ( 1959 ) is commonly cited as the first happening, although that distinction is sometimes given to a 1952 performance of Theater Piece No. 1 at Black Mountain College by John Cage, one of Kaprow's teachers in the mid-1950s.

On the television series Mystery Science Theater 3000, Road House was frequently cited as a favorite film of the characters, especially Crow T. Robot.

Developer Tom Fulp has cited the PDA Games as being the inspiration for The Behemoth's third game, BattleBlock Theater.

Her play Juvenilia, a comic drama about college students " attempting to find love ", premiered off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons, as did her play The Water Children, both directed by longtime collaborator Petrarca, which has also been seen at Los Angeles ’ Matrix Theater where it was cited as " the most challenging political play of 1998 " by the L. A. Weekly and earned six L. A.

Cablevision's stance against the stadium proposal was cited as " a factor " in the NFL moving its 2005 college player draft away from Cablevision-owned Theater at Madison Square Garden to the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, ending a 10-year run of the event at MSG.

The Mark Strand Theater in New York City, opened in 1913 by Mitchell Mark at the cost of one-million dollars, is usually cited as the first movie palace of the United States, and its success in drawing the upper middle class to the movies spurred others to follow suit.

While Watchtower never reached mainstream access, they have been cited as an influence by many other progressive metal bands such as: Dream Theater, Death, Atheist, Sieges Even and Spiral Architect.

After the disappointing Conquest ( 1937 ), Garbo was one of several major stars — including Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Marlene Dietrich, and Katharine Hepburn — called " box office poison " in an open letter published by the National Theater Distributors of America.

In summarizing Miller's military career, General Jimmy Doolittle said, “ next to a letter from home, that organization was the greatest morale builder in the European Theater of Operations .”

" In a letter from November 1910 to the editor of Utro Rossii, the publication which supposedly quoted the above remarks and which attributes them to Rachmaninoff, the composer categorically denies the quotation and wrote " The article publishes without my knowledge words of mine about the Bolshoi Theater and Chaliapin ... I said that we often have regrettable confusion backstage at the Bolshoi Theater ... I also said that I had heard rumors that since Chaliapin had been appointed régisseur of those operas in which he sings, there is more quiet backstage.

On September 20, 2012 Cinemark's president Tim Warner said in a letter to the Mayor of Aurora that the Theater in Aurora, Colorado will be renovated, reconfigured and reopened by the end of the year however a specific date for reopening the theater has not been set.

The prologue is written by Nancy in a letter to her friend, Bess Marvin, saying she is going to St. Louis with a friend from high school, Maya Nguyen, to interview Brady Armstrong at the Royal Palladium Theater in St. Louis.