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Steven Dexter
Steven Dexter (born August 26, 1962) is a theatre director and writer. Early life Dexter was born in South Africa, then he moved to London in 1984 and studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. West End productions In 2003 he directed both ''Peter Pan'' and ''The Pirates of Penzance'', playing in repertoire at the Savoy Theatre, London. His production of ''La Cava (musical), La Cava'' (book by Dana Broccoli, lyrics by John Claflin and Shaun McKenna, music by Laurence O'Keefe and Stephen Keeling) transferred from the Churchill Theatre, Bromley to the Victoria Palace Theatre, London, in 2000, transferring to the Piccadilly Theatre in 2001. In October 2012 his production of Loserville transferred to the Garrick Theatre, London, in a co-production between Kevin Wallace Productions, West Yorkshire Playhouse, TC Beech and Youth Music Theatre UK (now British Youth Music Theatre). As a book writer, he co-wrote ''Maddie'', (with Shaun McKenna, music by Stephen Keeling) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London Academy Of Music And Dramatic Art
The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) is a drama school located in Hammersmith, London. It is the oldest specialist drama school in the British Isles and a founding member of the Federation of Drama Schools. LAMDA's Principal is Professor Mark O'Thomas, who succeeded Director Sarah Frankcom in 2022. Benedict Cumberbatch succeeded Timothy West as President of LAMDA's Board of Trustees in 2018. The Academy's graduates work regularly at the Royal National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company, Shakespeare's Globe, and the theatres of London's West End and Hollywood, as well as on the BBC, HBO, and Broadway. It is registered as a company under the name LAMDA Ltd and as a charity under its trading name London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. There is an associate organisation in America under the name of American Friends of LAMDA (AFLAMDA). A very high proportion of LAMDA's stage management and technical theatre graduates find work in their chosen field within ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Honk!
''Honk!'' is a musical adaptation of the 1843 Hans Christian Andersen story ''The Ugly Duckling'', incorporating a message of tolerance. The book and lyrics are by Anthony Drewe and music is by George Stiles (of the British songwriting duo Stiles and Drewe). The musical is set in the countryside and features Ugly – a cygnet who is mistaken as an ugly duckling upon falling into his mother's nest and is rejected by everyone but Ida (his mother), a sly tomcat who only befriends him out of hunger, and several other barnyard characters. The musical opened at the Watermill Theatre in England in 1993. The West End production opened in 1999 and won the 2000 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Musical The show is frequently produced by schools, as well as regional and community theatre groups in Britain, the U.S. and Canada. Production history ;Newbury, England A version of ''Honk!'' opened in 1993 at The Watermill Theatre in Newbury, England, originally titled ''The Ugly Duckli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London School Of Musical Theatre
London School of Musical Theatre (LSMT) is a training academy of performing arts, that was founded by Glenn Lee in 1995. The school is located on Borough Road, central London. It was originally housed at The Old Vic and then Her Majesty's Theatre, before moving to premises on Borough Road where it currently operates. The school offers a one-year, full-time, vocational training for adults wishing to pursue a career in musical theatre. The ethos of LSMT is to create the environment of a professional company in rehearsal rather than that of an educational institution. The emphasis of the course is on the development of the singing voice as the tool for acting through song alongside a thorough training in dance and drama. Classes are taught by professionals and practitioners working in the industry, with direct experience of the requirements of musical theatre. Since its inception in 1995, the organisation has commissioned new musical theatre productions, many of which have now ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Busted 1
Busted may refer to: Music * Busted (band), an English rock band Albums * ''Busted'' (2002 Busted album), the debut album by the band * ''Busted'' (2004 Busted album), a compilation album by the band * ''Busted'' (Cheap Trick album) or the title song, 1990 Songs * "Busted" (Harlan Howard song), 1962 * "Busted" (Isley Brothers song), 2003 * "Busted" (Joanne song), 2001 * "Busted", by the Black Keys from ''The Big Come Up'', 2002 * "Busted", by Candace Flynn and Vanessa Doofenshmirtz from ''Phineas and Ferb'' * "Busted", by Matchbox 20 from ''Yourself or Someone Like You'', 1996 * "Busted", by Vitamin C from ''More'', 2001 Television * ''Busted!'', a 2018–2021 South Korean streaming show * ''MTV's Busted'', a reality show that began airing in 2008 * "Busted" (''Braceface''), a 2003 episode * "Busted" (''Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends''), a 2004 episode * "Busted" (''Roseanne''), a 1994 episode Other uses * ''Busted'' (book), a 2014 book by Wendy Ruderman and Barb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mountview Academy Of Theatre Arts
Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, formerly Mountview Theatre School, is a drama school in Peckham, south London, England, founded in 1945. The Academy provides specialist vocational training in acting and musical theatre, as well as production arts. The President of the school is Dame Judi Dench, and the Principal and Artistic Director Stephen Jameson. History Mountview was founded in Crouch End, north London, in 1945 by Peter Coxhead and Ralph Nossek as "The Mountview Theatre Club", an amateur repertory company staging a new production for a six-day run every second week. Among the club's productions were Coxhead's staging of Eugene O'Neill's ''Mourning Becomes Electra'', a production of the complete Arnold Wesker Trilogy – ''Chicken Soup with Barley'', ''Roots'' and ''I'm Talking about Jerusalem'' directed by Peter Scott-Smith – and ''Buttered Both Sides'', a revue written and composed by Mountview member Ted Dicks and directed by Gale Webb, which later transferred to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Singapore Repertory Theatre
Singapore Repertory Theatre (SRT) is a non-profit professional theatre company founded in 1993. It is located at the KC Arts Centre – Home of SRT at 20 Merbau Road, Singapore. The current artistic director is Gaurav Kripalani while its managing director is Charlotte Nors. The SRT group has five divisions: *Main Stage *The Little Company (TLC) *The Young Company (TYC) *Stage Two *Inclusive Young Company (iYC) SRT also conducts regular Education and Development programmes, as part of its Learning and Engagement (L&E) Department as well as fundraising activities. Main Stage SRT caters to different audience segments, ensuring that a variety of performances are available with each season showcasing eight to ten plays and musicals. '' Forbidden City: Portrait of An Empress'' is one of the musicals staged by SRT in 2002 at the Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay as part of its opening festival. It was restaged in 2003, 2006 and is slated for another restaging in 2017. Other origin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lyric Theatre, Belfast
The Lyric Theatre, or simply The Lyric, is the principal, full-time producing theatre in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The theatre's current Executive Producer is Jimmy Fay, previously the founder and Artistic Director of Bedrock Productions. History The theatre was first established as The Lyric Players in 1951 at the home of its founders Mary O'Malley and her husband Pearse in Derryvolgie Avenue, off the Malone Road, and moved to its new site on Ridgeway Street in 1968, between the Stranmillis Road and Stranmillis Embankment. Austin Clarke laid the foundation stone in 1965 a deliberate choice by O'Malley to build a link back to her artistic hero W. B. Yeats. In 1974 the theatre staged Andrew Lloyd Webber's ''Jesus Christ Superstar'', leading to protests. In 1976 Liam Neeson appeared in Brian Friel's ''Philadelphia Here I Come!''. Neeson's association with the Lyric has continued since, and he is currently the theatre's patron. Several of Friel's plays have been staged at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fried Rice Paradise
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Portrait Of An Empress
A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expressions are predominant. The intent is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person. For this reason, in photography a portrait is generally not a snapshot, but a composed image of a person in a still position. A portrait often shows a person looking directly at the painter or photographer, in order to most successfully engage the subject with the viewer. History Prehistorical portraiture Plastered human skulls were reconstructed human skulls that were made in the ancient Levant between 9000 and 6000 BC in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B period. They represent some of the oldest forms of art in the Middle East and demonstrate that the prehistoric population took great care in burying their ancestors below their homes. The skulls denote some of the earliest sculptural examples of portraiture in the history of art. Historical portraitur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Habima Theatre
The Habima Theatre ( he, תיאטרון הבימה ''Te'atron HaBima'', lit. "The Stage Theatre") is the List of national theatres, national theatre of Israel and one of the first Hebrew language theatres. It is located in Habima Square in the center of Tel Aviv. History Habima was founded by in Białystok (then in Grodno Governorate, Russian Empire) in 1912. Menahem Gnessin was one of its cofounders and early actors. Because its performances were in Hebrew, invoked the Jewish folk tradition, and dealt with issues of the Jewish people, soon it was banned by Russian authorities, and the theatre troupe was forced to become a travelling one. Beginning in 1918, the theatre operated under the auspices of the Moscow Art Theatre, which some consider its actual beginning. It encountered difficulties under the Soviet government as well, after the Russian Revolution (1917), Russian Revolution. Konstantin Stanislavsky arranged for the mainly Jewish Polish actors to be trained by Yev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elliot Davis (composer)
Elliot Davis is a British composer, musician and music documentary maker. Biography Davis started his career transcribing musical ideas for Lionel Bart. He then went on to work in the West End of London in a musical capacity on ''Miss Saigon'', '' Cats'', ''Les Misérables'', '' Blood Brothers'' and '' Jesus Christ Superstar''. He was musical director for the European premieres of ''Lucky Stiff'', ''Orpheus'' and ''The Demon Headmaster'', which premiered at the Pleasance Theatre, London. Davis has also collaborated with Stephen Schwartz (composer of ''Wicked'') on re-scoring and arranging his Broadway smash ''Pippin''. Davis's musical ''Best Friends and Butterflies'' formed part of the 2008 Official Olympic Handover Celebrations from Beijing to London when it was played by the BBC Big band in Concert. The original score Davis composed for the 2010 Druid production of ''The Sliver Tassie'' by Sean O'Casey performed at the Town Hall Theatre, Galway, was described as providing ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
