In September 1977, veteran actress and authoress Dulcie Gray played the Miss Marple character in a stage adaptation of A Murder Is Announced at the Vaudeville Theatre in London, England that featured also Dinah Sheridan, Eleanor Summerfield, Patricia Brake and Barbara Flynn.

Early in his career, while playing double roles in the play Drifting at the Playhouse Theatre in 1922, Bogart met actress Helen Menken.

The cross-dressing actress Charlotte Charke ran the successful but short-lived Punch's Theatre in the Old Tennis Court at St. James's, Westminster, presenting adaptations of Shakespeare as well as plays by herself, her father Colley Cibber, and her friend Henry Fielding.

Almost a year later, on 11 April 1896, the play received its Australian premiere at the Criterion Theatre in Sydney, with eminent local stage actress Jenny Watt-Tanner in the role of Lady Bracknell.

Working with two Irish brothers with theatrical experience, William and Frank Fay, Yeats's unpaid yet independently wealthy secretary Annie Horniman, and the leading West End actress Florence Farr, the group established the Irish National Theatre Society.

* November 22 – Vaudeville actress Lillian Russell makes her debut at Tony Pastor's Theatre in New York City.

Another well-known theatre in Bucharest is the State Jewish Theatre, which has gained increasing prominence in recent years due partly to the fact that it features plays starring world-renowned Romanian-Jewish actress Maia Morgenstern.

In 1875, Carte became the business manager of the Royalty Theatre, under the direction of his client, the popular singing actress Madame Selina Dolaro.

The award is named after Antoinette Perry, an actress, director, producer and co-founder of the American Theatre Wing, who died in 1946.

Stella Adler, an actress and acting teacher whose fame was cemented by the success of her students Marlon Brando, Warren Beatty, and Robert De Niro, also broke with Strasberg after she studied with Stanislavski himself, the only Group Theatre teacher to do so, after he had modified many of his early ideas about acting.

* Maria Ouspenskaya, an actress who taught at the American Laboratory Theatre.

One of the most often-cited parts of Anatoly Kuznetsov's documentary novel Babi Yar is the testimony of Dina Pronicheva, an actress of the Kiev Puppet Theatre, and a survivor.

While working at the Everyman Theatre in 1972 Pryce met actress Kate Fahy.

Funded by the Theatre Guild, " the Lab " had contracted with Richard Boleslavski to stage its experimental productions and with Russian actress and expatriate Maria Ouspenskaya to supervise classes in acting.

After appearing as Frank Elgin in Winter Journey at the St James's April 1952, he rejoined the Stratford company in 1953 ( together with his actress wife Rachel Kempson ) appearing as Shylock, King Lear and Antony in Antony and Cleopatra, also playing Antony when the company transferred to the Prince's Theatre in November 1953 before touring in the Netherlands, Belgium and Paris.

She was cast in the leading role after both the actress playing Peggy Sawyer and her understudy fell ill. She also played Mae Jones in the Kurt Weill opera Street Scene with the English National Opera at the London Coliseum Theatre in 1989.

" During 1934 they changed the name to Theatre of Action and not long after were introduced to a young actress recently moved up from London.

The play's Broadway première on 5 February 1893 at Palmer's Theatre was also the first Broadway performance for stage and screen actress Julia Arthur, who played Lady Windermere.

Mame opened at the Winter Garden Theatre in May 1966, with Stanley Kauffmann writing in the New York Times, " Miss Lansbury is a singing-dancing actress, not a singer or dancer who also acts ... In this marathon role she has wit, poise, warmth, and a very taking coolth.

* Jill Freud ( born 1927 ), actress ( and wife of Sir Clement Freud MP for Isle of Ely 1973-87 ) founded ' Jill Freud and Company ' whilst working with the Angles Theatre in 1980.

An acclaimed, pampered, and celebrated actress in the National Theatre, Natalija is finding it hard to adapt to manual labour, especially in the light that she also has a sick, wheelchair-bound brother Bata to take care of.

Mary Antoinette Perry ( June 27, 1888June 28, 1946 ) was an actress, director and co-founder of the American Theatre Wing.

In 1926 she married the first of her three husbands, actor Henry Lytton, Jr., the son of singer and actress Louie Henri and Sir Henry Lytton the doyen of the Savoy Theatre.

Also in attendance at The Ahmanson Theatre were various entertainment personalities and published authors, including Leonard Getz ( From Broadway to the Bowery ), Jan Alan Henderson ( Speeding Bullet ), Alexis Cruz ( actor ), David Mendenhall ( actor / entertainment lawyer ), Delilah Cotto ( actress ), Lesa Carlson ( singer ), Keiko Halop ( concert pianist ), DJ Rabiola and Anthony Rabiola ( actors ), and Anthony Tremblay ( production designer ).

In 2011, she portrayed the role of fading actress Irina Arkadina in Anton Chekhov's The Seagull at Sydney's Belvoir St Theatre.

The most recent revival ran from December 3, 2011 to March 10, 2012 at the Old Vic Theatre, directed by Lindsay Posner and starring Jonathan Coy, Janie Dee, Robert Glenister, Jamie Glover, Celia Imrie, Karl Johnson, Aisling Loftus, Amy Nuttall and Paul Ready.

Throughout its history, The Queen's Theatre has seen such talents as Peggy Ashcroft, Fred and Adele Astaire, Tallulah Bankhead, Kenneth Branagh, Noël Coward, Henry Daniell, Marlene Dietrich, Robert Donat, Edith Evans, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., John Gielgud, Cedric Hardwicke, Jack Hawkins, Nigel Hawthorne, Celia Johnson, Jane Lapotaire, Alec Guinness, Rachel Kempson, Gertrude Lawrence, Robert Morley, Stephen Fry, Anthony Quayle, Basil Rathbone, Michael Redgrave, Miranda Richardson, Margaret Rutherford, Fiona Shaw, Nigel Havers, Maggie Smith, Sybil Thorndike, and Ramin Karimloo.

Actors that have performed at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre include: Benedict Cumberbatch, Anna Neagle, Robert Helpmann, Vivian Leigh, Eileen Atkins, Leslie French, Bill Kenwright, Felicity Kendal, Anthony Andrews, Wayne Sleep, Ricky Tomlinson, Jeremy Irons, Zoë Wanamaker, Judi Dench, Celia Imrie, Lesley Garrett, Douglas Hodge, Richard E Grant, Natasha Richardson, Ralph Fiennes, Christopher Biggins, Jenny Galloway, Joanna Riding, Samantha Spiro, Jenna Russell, Liz Robertson, Toyah Willcox, Bernard Bresslaw ( who died in his dressing room at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, while performing the part of Grumio in the 1993 production of The Taming of the Shrew ), Nigel Planer, Nigel Harman, Su Pollard, Milton Jones, John Malkovich, Scarlett Strallen, Sheridan Smith, Summer Strallen, Topol, Millicent Martin, Janie Dee, Clive Rowe, Martha Wainwright, Hannah Waddingham and Helen Dallimore.

Celia Feinman Adler ( December 6, 1889 – January 31, 1979 ) was an American Jewish actress, known as the " First Lady of the Yiddish Theatre ".

* The Cocktail Party ( Celia Coplestone ), Chichester Festival Theatre, 1968 ( with Alec Guinness as co-performer and director )

Apart from world premieres of contemporary plays such as Aunt Edwina ( 1958 ) with Henry Kendall directed by the author William Douglas Home ; The Right Honourable Gentleman ( 1963 ) with Anthony Quayle and Angela Huth's The Understanding ( 1982 ) with Celia Johnson and Ralph Richardson, many of her theatre credits in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s were revivals of Oscar Wilde's comedies including Lord Arthur Savile's Crime ( 1968 Tour ); A Woman of No Importance ( 1974 and 1978 ); The Importance of Being Earnest ( 1974 and The Old Vic Theatre 1980 ; also on television ); An Ideal Husband ( 1976 / 1977 Tour ) and Lady Windermere's Fan ( Canada 1979 ).

* Washington Post Review-June 2, 2006, by Celia Wren, The Glory of Living ': Running on Empty in America, Didactic Theatre Company production

* A Hatful of Rain ( Celia Pope )-Princes Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, W. C. 2-directed by Sam Wanamaker-1956

In 1959 she replaced Celia Johnson as Hilary in The Grass is Greener at the St. Martin's Theatre.

Her travels are the subject of a play, Riding England Sidesaddle by Christopher Goulding, which premiered at the People's Theatre, Newcastle upon Tyne in 1992, starring Andrea Riseborough as the young Celia Fiennes.

Amongst those who have trodden the boards at the Citizens Theatre or worked backstage are Ciarán Hinds, Rupert Everett, Helen Baxendale, Tim Roth, Celia Imrie, Mark Rylance, Laurance Rudic, Lorcan Cranitch, Tim Curry, Sean Bean, Una McLean, Pierce Brosnan, Ann Mitchell, Alan Rickman, Glenda Jackson, Greg Hicks, David Hayman, Iain Robertson, Henry Ian Cusick, Robbie Coltrane, Stanley Baxter, Allison McKenzie, Duncan Macrae, Gary Oldman, Leonard Maguire, Fidelis Morgan, Moira Shearer, Julie Le Grand, Andrew Keir, Sophie Ward, Roberta Taylor and Trisha Biggar ( who designed the costumes for Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones and Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith ), was for very many years, wardrobe mistress.

The main theatre, the Donald Gordon Theatre, has 1, 897 seats, the BBC Hoddinott Hall 350 and the Weston Studio Theatre 250.

In addition to the two main theatres of the Donald Gordon Theatre and Weston Studio Theatre, the phase 1 of the Wales Millennium Centre also has six function rooms: the Victor Salvi Room, the David Morgan Room, the Sony Room, the Seligman Room, the Japan Room and Function Room 6.

In the summer of 2008, Guettel reconfigured the musical as a smaller chamber piece for the Weston Playhouse Theatre Company, Weston, Vermont, where Sarah Uriarte Berry reprised her role as Franca.

Having already appeared on radio with Welles on The Shadow ( a regular as Commissioner Weston ) and in Welles ' serial adaptation of Les Misérables from 1937, Collins became a regular on The Mercury Theatre on the Air ; through the run of the series, he played many roles in literary adaptations, from Squire Livesey from Treasure Island and Dr. Watson to Mr. Pickwick in an adaptation of Pickwick Papers.

Everett Miller, then assistant director for the Garrick Gaieties, a Theatre Guild production, needed a lyricist for a song he had written ; ;

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum opened on Broadway on May 8, 1962 at the Alvin Theatre, and then transferred to the Mark Hellinger Theatre and the Majestic Theatre, where the show closed on August 29, 1964, after 964 performances and 8 previews.

The film ends with Bart killing Lamarr by shooting him in the groin at the " premiere " of Blazing Saddles outside Grauman's Chinese Theatre, saving the town, and then joining Jim inside the theatre to view the end of the movie, persuading people of all colors and creeds to live in harmony, before they hand in their horses and ride off ( in a limousine ) into the sunset.

But it was then that Hume started his great historical work The History of England, which took fifteen years and ran over a million words, to be published in six volumes in the period between 1754 and 1762, while also involved with the Canongate Theatre.

The Jude Law Hamlet then moved to Broadway, and ran for 12 weeks at the Broadhurst Theatre in New York.

Later that year, Booth played the part of an Indian, Uncas, in a play staged in Petersburg, Virginia, and then became a stock company actor at the Richmond Theatre in Virginia, where he became increasingly popular with audiences for his energetic performances.

She later directed Blanchett in A Streetcar Named Desire ( play ) at the Sydney Theatre Company in Australia, which ran September through October 2009, and then continued from 29 October to 21 November 2009 at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, where it won a

While at Oxford University he produced The Tempest, and this led to his joining the Royal Court Theatre production team in London, and then Bristol Old Vic.

The Royal National Theatre production of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern had a year-long Broadway run from October 9, 1967, through October 19, 1968, initially at the Alvin Theatre, then transferring to the Eugene O ' Neill Theatre on January 8, 1968.

They moved to the Auditorium Theatre, and then Roosevelt, along with key allies such as Pinchot and Albert Beveridge created the Progressive Party, structuring it as a permanent organization that would field complete tickets at the presidential and state level.

From May to August 2011, Curry was scheduled to portray the Player in a Trevor Nunn stage production of Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead at the Chichester Festival Theatre and then in London.

This particular adaptation, which used film footage of the city and stories from the community, was adapted and directed by Alan Lyddiard who then re-created it at Betty Nansen Theatre in Copenhagen in 2005.

The production ran for 732 performances at the Winter Garden Theatre before touring and then returning to the Winter Garden Theatre in 1960 for another 253 performance engagement.

After three weeks at the Pleasance in Edinburgh in August 2009, the production was to visit the Perth Rep, the Eden Court Theatre in Inverness, and then have a short run at Citizen's Theatre in Glasgow, with hopes for a run in London in 2010.

The National Theatre of Scotland then produced a musical adaptation of The Wicker Man called An Appointment with the Wicker Man.

The ceremony was then moved to Madison Square Garden's Felt Forum in New York City, and then Nashville's Tennessee Theatre in the following two years.

The first, directed by and starring Laurence Olivier in 1944, is a colourful and highly stylised version which begins in the Globe Theatre and then gradually shifts to a realistic evocation of the Battle of Agincourt.

Carte used his profits from the Gilbert and Sullivan partnership to build the Savoy Theatre in 1881, and their joint works then became known as the Savoy operas.