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 ...
