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2 unusual facts about New Theatre


New Theatre, Cardiff

The artists that have performed on stage at the New Theatre have included Sarah Bernhardt, Anna Pavlova, Laurel and Hardy, Tom Jones, Tommy Cooper and Shirley Bassey.

Peter Copley

In 1946 he appeared on stage in "Cyrano de Bergerac" at the New Theatre in London.


Anne of Green Gables – The Musical

An independent production opened on April 16, 1969, at the New Theatre, London, running for nine months and starring Polly James as Anne.

Cheryl Kennedy

Other West End theatre credits included 'Victoria' in Half a Sixpence where she starred alongside Tommy Steele at the Cambridge Theatre, 'Winnie' in The Matchgirls, 'Belinda' in Jorrocks at the New Theatre and Alan Ayckbourn's Absent Friends at the Garrick Theatre.

Farren Soutar

His final recorded appearance was as Gentleman with gout in Crime and Punishment at the New Theatre (1946).

Harry Drinkwater

New Theatre, Oxford, 1886 (demolished and replaced by new building in 1933)

Lloyd Reckord

In 1958, already established in Jamaica, Reckord appeared in the Ted Willis play Hot Summer Night at the New Theatre, St Martin's Lane, London, with Andrée Melly as his white girlfriend; a later Armchair Theatre adaptation the following year concentrated on the couple's relationship.

Mona Brand

During the five and a half years she was in the UK (1948–1953) Brand was active in London's Unity Theatre which shared common views with the New Theatre in Australia.

Nilo Cruz

Some of the theatres that have developed and performed his works include New York’s Public Theater, New York Theatre Workshop, Pasadena Playhouse, McCarter Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, South Coast Repertory, The Alliance, New Theatre, Florida Stage and the Coconut Grove Playhouse.


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Argentine Open Theatre

Playwright Osvaldo Dragún seized the opportunity to organize a new theatre movement, calling on fellow playwrights Roberto Cossa and Carlos Gorostiza, as well as renowned theatre actors Luis Brandoni, Jorge Rivera López and Pepe Soriano.

Black Ensemble Theater Company

The new theatre will be designed by Morris Architects Planners, who has previously designed Steppenwolf, Lookingglass, and Playhouse on the Square.

Booth's Theatre

On April 8, 1868, after the removal of several old structures and blasting out an unexpected "stone ledge" at the corner of Twenty Third and Sixth Avenue, Edwin Booth, after "Masonic observances", laid the cornerstone for his new theatre.

Charles de Wailly

Noticed by the Marquis de Marigny, brother of Mme de Pompadour and general director of the Bâtiments du Roi, de Wailly worked in the park of Marigny's Château de Menars and, thanks to his support, managed to obtain the commission of a new theatre for the Comédie-Française.

Elisabetta Manfredini-Guarmani

Engagements followed later that year at the Teatro della Pergola in Florence, where she sang the title role in the premiere of Pietro Raimondi's Eloisa Verner, and at the Teatro Grande in Brescia, where she sang Ifigenia in the premiere of Mayr's Il sagrifizio di Ifigenia, a performance which inaugurated the new theatre.

Eugene De Rosa

One important design for a site on Hyatt Street in St. George, Staten Island, provided not just a grand new theatre but also stores and offices.

François-Adrien Boieldieu

In 1791, the company set up home in a new theatre, the Théâtre Feydeau, previously reserved for the troupe of the opera buffa.

Hedvig Raa-Winterhjelm

Many of the actors was given a contract in the new theatre, but the competition with Sweden's leading lady Elise Jakobsson-Hwasser made Hedvig move to Finland, where she accepted a position at the Swedish Theatre in Helsinki.

Herman Darewski

Born in Minsk, and musically trained in Vienna, he worked in London, for the first 15 years of the new century, as a composer of light songs, some of which were written for the new theatre form, revue.

Joseph Adler

He previously directed at many South Florida theatres including Coconut Grove Playhouse, New Theatre, Area Stage, Hollywood Boulevard Theatre, Players Theatre, Ruth Foreman Theatre, Florida Shakespeare Theatre, City Theatre, Hollywood Playhouse and Shores Performing Arts.

Lisle's Tennis Court

The New Theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields opened in April 1695 with William Congreve's Love for Love.

Mademoiselle Montansier

Forced to leave the Palais-Royal by decree in 1806 (the neighbouring Comédiens-Français finding that she kept them in the shade) but still infatigable, she convinced Napoleon to authorise her to build a new theatre on the boulevard Montmartre, despite a decree limiting the number of theatres in Paris to just 8.

Marie-Joseph Peyre

Work, on foundations already constructed by Moreau, began in May 1779, paid for by Monsieur, and by 16 February 1782, the players of the Comédie Française, who had objected to the project from the start, were installed in the new theatre, which was inaugurated by Marie-Antoinette, 9 April 1782, with a performance of Racine's Iphigénie.

Michael Wilcox

He has also served as a board member for Northern Arts, Northern Stage, NTC Touring Company, and, for some years, was on the Arts Council of England's New Theatre Writing Panel.

Nadezhda Repina

At the same time, architects Andrei Mikhailov and Joseph Bové have built a new theatre on the place of the burnt theatre of Michael Maddox – now this is Bolshoi Theatre; it opened on 18 January 1825.

Nanoor

The Hindu wrote, “On a long term, the killings, symbolising the birth of a new theatre of violence after Keshpur in district Midnapore - where deaths and maiming in political clashes have become a bizarre routine - constitute an extremely disturbing augury for the society in Bengal.

New Theatre Oxford

The New Theatre Oxford (known, for a period, as the Apollo Theatre Oxford or simply The Apollo from 1977–2003) is the main commercial theatre in Oxford, England and has a capacity of 1,800 people.

Peter Noone of Herman's Hermits played in pantomime at the New Theatre in the early 1970s together with Peter Glaze as the Dame.

Renée Asherson

She returned to the New Theatre for the 1947–1948 season, appearing in such roles as Bianca in The Taming of the Shrew, The Queen in Richard II, and Marya Antonovna in Nikolai Gogol's The Government Inspector.

Rudi Hansen

Although she was to start further training as an actress and had been admitted to the New Theatre's drama school, he withdrew completely from the limelight to follow Harald to Bologna in Italy where he played professional football.

Steensen Varming

Steensen Varming The UK begins work on the Nottingham Playhouse, the first new theatre to be built in England in 200 years.

Theater am Kärntnertor

Gerhard Bronner's cabaret showcase stadtTheater walfischgasse used the name Neues Theater am Kärntnertor (New Theatre at the Kärntnertor) from 1959 to 1973 before adopting its present name; it is located on the next block at 4 Walfischgasse.

Théâtre des Nouveautés

Founded by Jules Brasseur (who had been an actor for over twenty years at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal) in collaboration with Mme Michaux (director of the Théâtre Royal du Parc in Brussels), the new theatre was built on the site of the old Fantaisies-Parisiennes, which had been inaugurated in 1864 and in 1875 completely rebuilt in a more convenient and carefully redecorated fashion as the Folies-Ollier.

Théâtre des Tuileries

The theatre later underwent three substantial transformations: the first in 1763, when it was greatly reduced in size for the Paris Opera (to a capacity of 400 to 500 spectators) by the architects Jacques Soufflot and Jacques Gabriel; the second in 1792, when it was transformed into the hall of the National Convention; and the third in 1808, when Napoleon had a new theatre built to the designs of the architects Percier and Fontaine.

Theatre of France

Inspired by the theatrical experiments in the early half of the century and by the horrors of the war, the avant-garde Parisian theatre, "New theatre" or, as the critic Martin Esslin termed it, "Theatre of the Absurd," around the writers Eugène Ionesco, Samuel Beckett, Jean Genet, Arthur Adamov, Fernando Arrabal, refused simple explanations and abandoned traditional characters, plots and staging.

Thomas Betterton

On the opening of the new theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields in 1661, Davenant, the patentee of the Duke's Company, engaged Betterton and all Rhodes's company to play in his Siege of Rhodes.

Tracy's Tiger

Produced in the New Theatre, the smallest of Oregon Shakespeare Festival's theaters, the musical met with a warm reception from critics and played to sold-out audiences for the entire season.