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  2. Sam Wanamaker - Wikipedia

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    Samuel Wanamaker (born Samuel Wattenmacker; June 14, 1919 – December 18, 1993) was an American actor and director, whose career on stage and in film and television spanned five decades. He began his career on Broadway , but spent most of his professional life in the United Kingdom, where he emigrated after becoming fearful of being ...

  3. Sam Wanamaker Playhouse - Wikipedia

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    The Sam Wanamaker Playhouse is an indoor theatre forming part of the Shakespeare's Globe complex, along with the recreated Globe Theatre on Bankside in Southwark, London.. Built by making use of 17th-century plans for an indoor English theatre, the playhouse recalls the layout and style of the Blackfriars Theatre (which also existed in Shakespeare's time), although it is not an exact reconstru

  4. American Shakespeare Center - Wikipedia

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    The American Shakespeare Center was founded as the Shenandoah Shakespeare EXPRESS in 1988 by Dr. Ralph Alan Cohen and Jim Warren. [6] The first show performed by the newly organized company was Richard III, where actors who made up the locally travelling ensemble troupe came from James Madison University's current students and graduates, and the performance was two hours long (compared to a ...

  5. New Shakespeare Theatre, Liverpool - Wikipedia

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    The New Shakespeare Theatre, Liverpool, was a theatre in that British city's Fraser Street The theatre opened in 1888 under the proprietorship of Mr Ellis Brammall jun. It was built by J H Havelock-Sutton (who went on to build the Park Palace Music Hall in 1893 and the Metropole Theatre in Bootle in 1911).

  6. Blackfriars Theatre - Wikipedia

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    Completed at a cost of £7.5 million, the theatre opened as the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse in January 2014. [26] Designed by Jon Greenfield, in collaboration with Allies and Morrison, it is an oak structure built inside the building's brick shell. [27] The thrust stage is surmounted by a musicians' gallery, and the theatre has an ornately painted ...

  7. Shakespeare's Globe - Wikipedia

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    The modern Shakespeare's Globe was founded by the actor and director Sam Wanamaker, and built about 230 metres (750 ft) from the site of the original theatre in the historic open-air style. It opened to the public in 1997, with a production of Henry V .

  8. Theater (structure) - Wikipedia

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    An opera production of Ihitai 'Avei'a – Star Navigator at a 'block box' events centre in Auckland, New Zealand Backstage area of the Vienna State Opera. A theater building or structure contains spaces for an event or performance to take place, usually called the stage, and also spaces for the audience, theater staff, performers and crew before and after the event.

  9. Neil Simon Theatre - Wikipedia

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    The Neil Simon Theatre is on 250 West 52nd Street, on the south sidewalk between Eighth Avenue and Broadway, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. [5] [6] The rectangular land lot covers 12,350 sq ft (1,147 m 2), with a frontage of 123.50 ft (37.64 m) on 52nd Street and a depth of 100 ft (30 m).