"series of Shakespeare productions in 1914. The building was damaged in 1940 during air raids and it became a Grade II* listed building in 1951 after it reopened. The Old Vic is the crucible of many of the performing arts companies and theatres in London today. It was the name of a repertory company that was based at the theatre and formed (along with the Chichester Festival Theatre) the core of the National Theatre of Great Britain on its formation in 1963, under Laurence Olivier. The National Theatre remained at the Old Vic until new premises were constructed on the"
"Company and lease the Old Vic theatre. The ""National Theatre Company"" opened on 22 October 1963 with ""Hamlet"". The current building was designed by architects Sir Denys Lasdun and Peter Softley and structural engineers Flint & Neill and contains three stages, which opened individually between 1976 and 1977. The construction work was carried out by Sir Robert McAlpine. The Company remained at the Old Vic until 1977, when construction of the Olivier was complete. The National Theatre building houses three separate theatres. Additionally, a temporary structure was added in April 2013 and closed in May 2016. Named after the theatre's"
"director in 1988; his experience included running the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh and the Nottingham Playhouse. He was noted for his series of collaborations with David Hare on the state of contemporary Britain. In 1997, Trevor Nunn became artistic director. He came to the National from the RSC, having undertaken a major expansion of the company into the Swan, The Other Place and the Barbican Theatres. He brought a more populist style to the National, introducing musical theatre to the repertoire. In April 2003, Nicholas Hytner took over as Artistic Director. He previously worked as an associate director with the"
"for the creation of the National Theatre were coming to fruition. The British government agreed to release funds for a new building on the South Bank of the Thames. Lord Chandos was appointed chairman of the National Theatre Board in 1962, and in August Olivier accepted its invitation to be the company's first director. As his assistants, he recruited the directors John Dexter and William Gaskill, with Kenneth Tynan as literary adviser or ""dramaturge"". Pending the construction of the new theatre, the company was based at the Old Vic. With the agreement of both organisations, Olivier remained in overall charge"
"of the Chichester Festival during the first three seasons of the National; he used the festivals of 1964 and 1965 to give preliminary runs to plays he hoped to stage at the Old Vic. The opening production of the National Theatre was ""Hamlet"" in October 1963, starring Peter O'Toole and directed by Olivier. O'Toole was a guest star, one of occasional exceptions to Olivier's policy of casting productions from a regular company. Among those who made a mark during Olivier's directorship were Michael Gambon, Maggie Smith, Alan Bates, Derek Jacobi and Anthony Hopkins. It was widely remarked that Olivier seemed"
"Olivier as a founding director of the National Theatre from its time at the Old Vic in 1963. In 1962, he directed Vanessa Redgrave and Eric Porter in ""Cymbeline"" for the Royal Shakespeare Company. He was the artistic director of the Royal Court Theatre between 1965 and 1972, where he directed premieres of plays by writers including David Hare, John Arden, Edward Bond and Arnold Wesker, as well as introducing many of Bertolt Brecht's works to British audiences. In 1974 he co-founded the Joint Stock Theatre Company with Max Stafford-Clark, David Hare and David Aukin. William Gaskill was an associate"
"National Theatre, London. The National Theatre building on London’s Thames Southbank, designed by architect Sir Denys Lasdun, was then under construction as the new home for the National (which had been founded at the Old Vic in 1964). The Cottesloe was the third and smallest theatre, holding up to 400 people. It was located in an abandoned space under the rear of the Olivier Theatre stage. In 1973 this was a huge empty shell served by a partially complete foyer designed for only 200. While the National’s Olivier and Lyttleton Theatres are fixed-format, the Cottesloe can be recast into many"
"foundation stone was laid by Vanessa Redgrave, in September 1963, who commemorated the occasion by casting her foot in concrete. Susan Hampshire ""topped out"" the roof of the theatre on 11 November 1964. The company opted to dispense with traditional repertory theatre in favour of a more flexible model in which actors are cast as appropriate to different productions. Many stars have performed at the theatre over the years. Stephen Barry was a young assistant director in the 1960s. The first artistic director, Laurier Lister, was succeeded in 1975 by Val May. The theatre was under the directorship of James"
"Old Vic as Associate Director, directing productions of ""Far Away"" (Caryl Churchill) and ""Faith Healer"" (Brian Friel). The latter was subsequently remounted in 2012 as part of the Hong Kong Arts Festival In 2012 Simon was awarded the inaugural Evening Standard/Burberry Award for an Emerging Director. In 2013 Simon made his debut at the National Theatre with ""Strange Interlude"" with Anne Marie Duff followed by ""Man and"" ""Superman"" with Ralph Fiennes""."" When Rufus Norris became the new Artistic Director of the National Theatre in 2015, he invited Simon to become part of his team of permanent Associates. Simon has also"
"Theatre Company's opening production of ""Hamlet"" in October 1963, alongside Peter O'Toole in the title role. Writing in UK newspaper ""The Guardian"" in 2003 as part of a series on landmark theatre productions, playwright Samantha Ellis noted of the National Theatre's opening night: Her first film followed, ""Beau Brummell"" (1954) with Stewart Granger and Elizabeth Taylor, and then a touring season with the Old Vic brought her back to Broadway in Tyrone Guthrie's production of ""Troilus and Cressida"". She met Ellis Rabb who had plans to start his own producing company on Broadway. By 1959, the ""Association of Producing Artist"""
"except tragedy."" William Washburn designed the building, erected on the site of the former Warren Theatre. Performers at the National included Edwin Adams, Jean Margaret Davenport, Julia Dean, Jonathan Harrington, W.H. Smith, Mary Ann Vincent, and Billy Whitlock. In 1852 the theatre burnt down, and was rebuilt. In 1863 the building was again destroyed by fire. In 1836:""this theatre, planned and erected by Mr William Washburn, is 120 by , exclusive of the saloons, refreshment rooms, &c., which are contained in an adjoining building, 20 by , fronting on Traverse Street, and communicating with the lobbies. The leading architectural features"
"over the Memorial Theatre at Stratford, and to create the permanent Royal Shakespeare Company, in 1960, also establishing a new RSC base at the Aldwych Theatre for transfers to the West End. He was artistic director at the National Theatre between 1973 and 1988; and continued to direct major performances for both the National and the RSC as well as running his own company at The Old Vic and summer seasons at the Theatre Royal, Bath. In 2008, he opened a new theatre, The Rose, and remains its ""director emeritus"". One of the National's associate directors, Richard Eyre became artistic"
"and drill halls, ferries and forests. The creation of a national theatre was one of the commitments of the Scottish Executive's National Cultural Strategy. Vicky Featherstone was the founding Artistic Director and held the post from before the theatre's launch in 2006, to 2013. Laurie Sansom took up the post in March 2013. His resignation was announced in April 2016. Jackie Wylie, former Artistic Director of The Arches in Glasgow, will take up the appointment of the National Theatre of Scotland's Artistic Director in Spring 2017. ""Black Watch"" (2006) by Gregory Burke which won four Laurence Olivier Awards and multiple"
"John Osborne, Samuel Beckett and David Storey. It was also at the Court that she first collaborated with the directors Lindsay Anderson, John Dexter and Tony Richardson. Herbert then moved on to the National Theatre under the director, actor and producer Laurence Olivier (1907–89) at the Old Vic, an association that led to her being invited by Olivier to join the Committee planning the National's new building on London's South Bank (opened 1976) and over which she exerted considerable influence on the shaping of the auditoria. It was at the National that Herbert first collaborated with the playwright Tony Harrison"
"National Theatre in 1930. Their first production was ""The Man from Blankleys"" by F. Anstey at the Fortune Theatre. When Grein left the company Nancy became its honorary director, and in 1932 a permanent home was found at the Little Theatre in the Adelphi with Nancy as manageress. The enterprise came to an end with the destruction of the theatre in 1941. During this period, Nancy established the English School Theatre Movement, which toured productions of Shakespeare plays to working class children. In the 1950 King's Birthday Honours, Nancy was awarded a CBE for services to the stage. In the"
"Saturdays only, the programme included ""The Sneakers"" and ""The Streetlights"" by Half Human Theatre, ""The Thinker"" by Stuff & Things, ""H2H"" by Joli Vyann, ""Screeving"" by Urban Canvas, ""Pigeon Poo People"" by The Natural Theatre Company, ""Capses"" by Laitrum, ""Bang On!"", ""Caravania!"" by The Bone Ensemble, ""The Hot Potato Syncopators"", ""Total Eclipse of the Head"" by Ella Good and Nicki Kent, ""The Caravan Gallery"", ""Curious Curios"" by Kazzum Theatre and ""The Preeners"" by Canopy. Laurence Olivier became artistic director of the National Theatre at its formation in 1963. He was considered the foremost British film and stage actor of the"
"the RSC in 1968 after almost ten years as its director. Hall was appointed director of the National Theatre (NT) in 1973 and led the organisation for fifteen years until 1988. He supervised the move from the Old Vic to the new purpose-built complex on London's South Bank ""in the face of wide-spread scepticism and violent union unrest, turning a potential catastrophe into the great success story it remains today."" Frustrated by construction delays, Hall decided to move the company into the still-unfinished building and to open it theatre by theatre as each neared completion. Extracts from his production of"
"National Theatre, Melbourne The National Theatre is a 783-seat Australian theatre and theatrical arts school located in the Melbourne bayside suburb of St Kilda, on the corner of Barkly and Carlisle Streets. The building was constructed in 1921 as The Victory Theatre (3000 seat cinema), rebuilt as 2550 seat cinema in 1928, finally converted to a live venue 1972/4 with 783 seats. The original National Theatre Movement (current owners) was established in 1935 by soprano Gertrude Johnson. After returning from an overseas career that included performing at Covent Garden, Miss Johnson was dismayed at the lack of training and performing"
"the Trust and in 1946 CEMA's successor, the Arts Council, arranged for a company from the London Old Vic to staff it, thus forming the Bristol Old Vic. Early members of the company included Peter O'Toole (making his first appearance in ""Major Barbara"" in 1956), John Neville, Timothy West, Barbara Leigh-Hunt and Dorothy Tutin. The first artistic director was Hugh Hunt. An early triumph for the Bristol Old Vic occurred when the 1954 première production of ""Salad Days"" transferred to the West End and became the longest-running musical on the London stage at that time. The Arts Council remained involved"
"the realization of this minimal programme asserted by F.L. Rieger and the Provincial Committee, the young progressive advocates of the original ambitious concept of the building (Sladkovský, Tyrš, Neruda, Hálek) launched an offensive. In 1865 these men attained leading positions in the Society and requested the 33-year-old professor of civil engineering at the Prague Technical College, architect Josef Zítek, to draft a design for the National Theatre. He then came out on top in a later-declared open competition, and in 1867 construction work began. On 16 May 1868, the foundation stone was laid, and in November the foundations were completed."
"However, the front facade was reworked in 1923, with the addition of white brick facing and alteration of the windows to large plates of glass. The 800-seat National Theater, built in 1911, is the only known theatre designed by Albert Kahn and the oldest surviving theatre from the city's original theatre district of the 19th century. It operated as a movie theater until the 1920s, when competition from larger movie houses forced a change to a vaudeville venue. The National survived as a burlesque and adult entertainment theater until it closed in the 1970s. The front facade of the National"
"new National Theatre building was inaugurated in 1957 with simultaneous productions of Carl Maria von Weber's ""Der Freischütz"" in the Opera House and (fitting for its reflection of the theatre's early history) Schiller's The Robbers in the ""Schauspielhaus"". In 1979, the Youth and Children's Theatre ensemble (""Schnawwl"") was set up with its main theatre space being the converted from an old fire station on the Mannheimer Neckarstadt. The leading conductors were first named ""Hofkapellmeister"". From 1923 the title was Generalmusikdirektor. At the beginning of the 21st century, the National Theatre has revived the ""Mannheim Tradition"" with the inauguration of the"
"to become one of two Associate Directors. Since Olivier had already suffered from medical crises which were a feature of the last quarter of his life, the question of eventual succession as Artistic Director was obviously in the background. Blakemore felt he was a probable candidate, and indeed, according to Olivier's biographer Philip Ziegler, he was highly favoured. However, in 1973 the Board of the National Theatre appointed Peter Hall without consulting Olivier. Blakemore wrote: Blakemore and Hall had been rivals during the 1959 season at the Royal Shakespeare Company, when Hall had directed Blakemore as an actor and both"
"a building fund for the National Theatre was established. Two fires in premises occupied by the National Theatre sapped morale, until finally a permanent home was found in the former Victory Cinema in St Kilda. The new premises finally opened in 1974. In 1951 Gertrude Johnson was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for her work as Director of the National Theatre.In 2005 she was inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women posthumously. Gertrude Johnson died on 28 March 1973 at Malvern. Her estate, valued at $117,000, was put towards scholarships for students at the"
"nation could not afford a National Theatre; in response the LCC offered to waive any rent and pay half the construction costs. Still, the Government tried to apply unacceptable conditions to save money; attempting to force the amalgamation of the existing publicly supported companies: the RSC, Sadler's Wells and Old Vic. Following some initial inspirational steps taken with the opening of the Chichester Festival Theatre in Chichester June 1962, the developments in London proceeded. In July 1962, with agreements finally reached, a board was set up to supervise construction, and a separate board was constituted to run a National Theatre"
"Goodwin was head of press and publications for the Royal Shakespeare Company. In 1973 he was asked by Sir Peter (now director of the National Theatre ) to move to the National and take up the same post there, a position he held until 1988. In these two appointments he saw theatre history in the making. Both companies were staging productions of arguably unsurpassed brilliance, while achieving massive expansions. The RSC was adding a London theatre, the Aldwych, to its Stratford base. The National, later, was moving from The Old Vic to its present three-auditorium home on London's South Bank."
"New Vic Theatre The New Vic Theatre is situated in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire. It was purpose-built as a theatre in the round and opened in 1986, replacing a converted cinema, the Victoria Theatre, Hartshill, Stoke-on-Trent. In the early 1960s Stephen Joseph was searching for a permanent base for his ""Studio Theatre"" company, which specialised in theatrical productions ""in the round"", that is with audience on all sides. He found it in a disused cinema in Hartshill, Stoke, which was converted to theatrical use and opened as a playhouse on 9 October 1962. The first resident director was Peter Cheeseman, and he"
"the National Theatre in 1993, as ""The Bald Trilogy: Furtive Nudist, Jamais Vu and Pigspurt"". Campbell was later commissioned by the National's director Trevor Nunn to write ""The History of Comedy Part One: Ventriloquism"". The two had previously fallen out when Nunn had been director of the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1981. Campbell had carefully concocted a press release and a string of personal letters complete with forged signature: Nunn appeared to be announcing that henceforth, as a consequence of the huge success of its recent adaptation of ""Nicholas Nickleby"", the Royal Shakespeare Company would be changing its name to"
"was then in a dilapidated state; a major renovation in the early 1990s restored the beauty of the old Monument-National and introduced many modernizations, resulting in 2 theatres- the 804-seat Ludger-Duvernay theatre and a smaller flexible Studio theatre, which seats as many as 180 spectators. Founding principals, Jean Gascon was the first Director-General (Principal) at the NTS and head of the school's Francophone programs while Powys Thomas headed up the English programming section. James de Beaujeu Domville took over the role of Director-General from 1964 until 1968. In 1960, the first year of its operation, the National Theatre School only"
"contemporary style of romantic landscape painting (also linked to Czech history). They provided the fundamental ideology guiding artistic expression, which today is described as the art of the generation of the National Theatre. The theatre includes a triga (a three-horse quadriga) and 10 exterior allegorical sculptures by Bohuslav Schnirch, 10 more exterior pieces by Antonín Wagner, the stone pieces by Max Verich and an interior sculpted pediment group over the proscenium arch by Schnirch. The National Theatre was opened for the first time on 11 June 1881, to honour the visit of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria. Bedřich Smetana's opera"
"set, as ""Oliver!"" has an episodic story that requires quick and varied changes of locale."" Peter Roberts wrote in ""Plays and Players"" about Kenny's design for the inaugural production of ""Hamlet"" for the National Theatre at The Old Vic theatre in 1963: ""The scenic shorthand of Sean Kenny's revolving set has all the vigour and unfussy force of O'Toole's performance in the title role...From a practical point of view it enables the director to deploy his cast three-dimensionally, in height as well as across the stage and enables scene changes to be effected rapidly and practically."" December 1963. For each"
"minute walk from the Csepel HÉV (suburban railway). The Memorial of the Old National Theatre is located on the National Theatre grounds. The theatre is 20,844 square meters (224,362.95 square feet), including an open-air stage. Functionally, it can be separated into three parts: The nearby Palace of Arts was opened in 2005. György Schwajda became the first director of the theater. He signed the ""company's core"" and founded the title ""Actor of the Nation"" with a financial reward. He resigned in the summer of 2002. After his resignation, Thomas Jordan won the bid to become the new director. He organized"
"Royal National Theatre The Royal National Theatre in London, commonly known as the National Theatre (NT), is one of the United Kingdom's three most prominent publicly funded performing arts venues, alongside the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal Opera House. Internationally, it is known as the National Theatre of Great Britain. From its foundation in 1963 until 1976, the company was based at the Old Vic theatre in Waterloo. The current building is located next to the Thames in the South Bank area of central London. In addition to performances at the National Theatre building, the National Theatre tours productions"