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Cataract of the Ganges
(1824).An equestrian melodrama by W. T. Moncrieff, it was presented at the Park Theatre in 1824, a year after its Drury Lane premiere. The highlight of the complicated plot ...
Charles Wyndham
(1837–1919), comic actor.The great English comedian served as a doctor for the Confederate Army during the Civil War, then later won applause with Lester Wallack's ensemble in such roles ...
Deathtrap
(1978),a thriller by Ira Levin. [Music Box Theatre, 1,809 perf.] Sidney Bruhl (John Wood), a mystery writer suffering a dry spell, tells his wife, Myra (Marian Seldes), that he ...
Mrs George H. Gilbert
(1821–1904)American actress, born in Lancashire. Apprenticing in the corps de ballet at Her Majesty's Theatre and Drury Lane, she married George Henry Gilbert with whom she emigrated to the ...
Music Box
New York, on West 45th Street between Broadway and 8th Avenue. Built by Irving Berlin and Sam H. Harris (see SAM H. HARRIS THEATRE) and seating 1,010, this theatre opened ...
Nicholas Hytner
(b Manchester, 1956).Eng. theatre and opera director. Prod. Weill's The Threepenny Opera while at Cambridge. First prof. opera prod. was The Turn of the Screw for Kent Opera, 1979, also directing Le ...
Peter Wood
(b. Colyton, Devon, 8 Oct. 1927)Director. Wood worked at the Oxford Playhouse and Arts Theatre before notably directing The Devils (1961) for the Royal Shakespeare Company and The Master ...
Sherlock Holmes
(1899),a play by William Gillette. [Garrick Theatre, 256 perf.] Alice Faulkner (Katherine Florence) holds letters written to her late sister by a member of royalty. She believes that her ...
Wood, John (1930–2011) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to American Theatre (3 ed.)
The tall, gaunt British performer, who brought a dark shadow of menace to his many comic roles, made only sporadic
Wood, John Reference library
The Companion to Theatre and Performance
(1930–2011)
Lean and elegant English actor. At the *Old Vic from 1954 and the *Royal Shakespeare Company from ...
Wood, John (1930) Reference library
The Continuum Companion to Twentieth Century Theatre
(b. Derbyshire, ?1930/4)
Actor. Educated at Oxford Unversity, he made his first West End
Wood, John Reference library
Adrienne Scullion
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance
(1930– )
Lean and elegant English actor, born in Derbyshire, whose career began at Oxford University where he was president of the Oxford University Dramatic Society. At the ...
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The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre (2 ed.)
(1930–2011), English actor, who was on the stage for some years after leaving Oxford, where he was President of OUDS, before his excellence was recognized. He was with the ...
