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Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music, and dance. It is the oldest form of drama, though live theatre has now been joined by modern recorded forms. Elements of art, such as painted scenery and stagecraft such as lighting are used to enhance the physicality, presence and immediacy of the experience. Places, normally buildings, where performances regularly take place are also called "theatres" (or "theaters"), as derived from the Ancient Greek θέατρον (théatron, "a place for viewing"), itself from θεάομαι (theáomai, "to see", "to watch", "to observe").

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The Author's Farce is a play by the English playwright and novelist Henry Fielding, first performed on 30 March 1730 at the Little Theatre, Haymarket. Written in response to the Theatre Royal's rejection of his earlier plays, The Author's Farce was Fielding's first theatrical success. The first and second acts deal with the attempts of the central character, Harry Luckless, to woo his landlady's daughter, and his efforts to make money by writing plays. In the second act, he finishes a puppet theatre play titled The Pleasures of the Town, about the Goddess Nonsense's choice of a husband from allegorical representatives of theatre and other literary genres. After its rejection by one theatre, Luckless's play is staged at another. The third act becomes a play within a play, in which the characters in the puppet play are portrayed by humans. The Author's Farce ends with a merging of the play's and the puppet show's realities. The play established Fielding as a popular London playwright, and the press reported that seats were in great demand. Although largely ignored by critics until the 20th century, most agree that the play is primarily a commentary on events in Fielding's life, signalling his transition from older forms of comedy to the new satire of his contemporaries.

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Gielgud performing in Much Ado About Nothing
John Gielgud (1904–2000) was an English actor and theatre director who, along with Ralph Richardson and Laurence Olivier, dominated the British stage for much of the 20th century. A member of the Terry family theatrical dynasty, he became a star in the West End and on Broadway by the 1930s, appearing in new works and classics. He began a parallel career as a director, and set up his own company at the Queen's Theatre, London. Though he made his first film in 1924 and had successes with The Good Companions (1933) and Julius Caesar (1953), he did not begin a regular film career until his sixties. He appeared in more than 60 films between Becket in 1964 (his first Academy Award nomination) and Elizabeth in 1998. As the acid-tongued Hobson in Arthur (1981) he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He earned a Golden Globe Award and two BAFTAs, and had the rare distinction of winning an Oscar, an Emmy, a Grammy, and a Tony. He broadcast more than 100 radio and television dramas and made commercial recordings of many plays, including ten of Shakespeare's. He was knighted in 1953 and was president of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art from 1977 to 1989.

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By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.
— Peter Ustinov, Christian Science Monitor, 1962

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    PikiWiki Israel 13773 AIDA AT MASADA 2011
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    Portrait of Elizabeth Farren, by Thomas Lawrence
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    Portrait of Madame Dugazon (Louise Rosalie Lefèvre), in the title rôle of Nina (Scene V)
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    Portrait of Pearl Bailey as Butterfly in St. Louis Woman
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    Portrett av Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, 1909 - no-nb digifoto 20150129 00043 bldsa BB0791 - Restoration
  • Poster for Burnand and Sullivan's Cox and Box - Royal Gallery of Illustration
    Poster for Burnand and Sullivan's Cox and Box - Royal Gallery of Illustration
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    Poster for Gilbert and Clay's Ages Ago at the Royal Gallery of Illustration
  • Poster for Jules Massenet's La Navarraise with Emma Calvé in the rôle of Anita
    Poster for Jules Massenet's La Navarraise with Emma Calvé in the rôle of Anita
  • Poster for Le pardon de Ploërmel 1859
    Poster for Le pardon de Ploërmel 1859
  • Priscilla Horton (Mrs. German Reed) as Ariel
    Priscilla Horton (Mrs. German Reed) as Ariel
  • Programme for the première of Ubu Roi
    Programme for the première of Ubu Roi
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    Prokofieff (i.e. Prokofiev) LCCN2014708419 Crop 2
  • Prudent-Louis Leray - Poster for the première of Georges Bizet's Carmen
    Prudent-Louis Leray - Poster for the première of Georges Bizet's Carmen
  • Ralph Cleaver - 1904 amateur performance of W.S. Gilbert's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern at the Garrick Theatre, London - Image 1
    Ralph Cleaver - 1904 amateur performance of W.S. Gilbert's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern at the Garrick Theatre, London - Image 1
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    Rice & Barton's Big Gaiety Spectacular Extravaganza Co. - Gaiety Dancers
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    Robert Earl Jones in Langston Hughes' Don't You Want to be Free? (23 June 1938; photograph by Carl Van Vechten)
  • Robert Jacob Hamerton - Poster for A Sensation Novel
    Robert Jacob Hamerton - Poster for A Sensation Novel
  • Robert Jacob Hamerton - Poster for F. C. Burnand and Arthur Sullivan's The Contrabandista
    Robert Jacob Hamerton - Poster for F. C. Burnand and Arthur Sullivan's The Contrabandista
  • Rosa Raisa (1917) - Archivio Storico Ricordi FOTO002701 - Restoration
    Rosa Raisa (1917) - Archivio Storico Ricordi FOTO002701 - Restoration
  • Rosabel Morrison - Carmen poster
    Rosabel Morrison - Carmen poster
  • Sarah Bernhardt, par Nadar, 1864, sepia
    Sarah Bernhardt, par Nadar, 1864, sepia
  • Set design by Philippe Chaperon for Act1 sc2 of Aida by Verdi 1871 Cairo - Gallica - Restored
    Set design by Philippe Chaperon for Act1 sc2 of Aida by Verdi 1871 Cairo - Gallica - Restored
  • Set design by Philippe Chaperon for Act4 sc2 of Aida by Verdi 1880 Paris
    Set design by Philippe Chaperon for Act4 sc2 of Aida by Verdi 1880 Paris
  • Shakespeare's King John at Drury Lane Theatre
    Shakespeare's King John at Drury Lane Theatre
  • Sheldonian Theatre Interior, Oxford, UK - Diliff
    Sheldonian Theatre Interior, Oxford, UK - Diliff
  • Sir Peter Ustinov Allan Warren
    Sir Peter Ustinov Allan Warren
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    Strauss, Richard - Ariadne auf Naxos - Restoration
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    Strobridge & Co. Lith.- Ben-Hur - Klaw & Erlanger's Stupendous Production
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    Taming of the Shrew
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    Tavola 5, bozzetto di Gebrüder Brückner per Tannhäuser (s.d.) - Archivio Storico Ricordi ICON011721 - Restoration, crop
  • Teatro Municipal de São Paulo 8
    Teatro Municipal de São Paulo 8
  • The Happy Land - Illustrated London News, March 22, 1873
    The Happy Land - Illustrated London News, March 22, 1873
  • The High Rollers Extravaganza Co. - Bend Her - c.1900
    The High Rollers Extravaganza Co. - Bend Her - c.1900
  • The Mikado Chappell Vocal Score cover (c.1895)
    The Mikado Chappell Vocal Score cover (c.1895)
  • The Princess - W. S. Gilbert
    The Princess - W. S. Gilbert
  • Thespis - Illustrated London News Jan 6 1872
    Thespis - Illustrated London News Jan 6 1872
  • Thomas Keene in Macbeth 1884 Wikipedia crop
    Thomas Keene in Macbeth 1884 Wikipedia crop
  • Thomas Keene in Othello 1884 Poster
    Thomas Keene in Othello 1884 Poster
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    Thomas Keene in Richard III 1884 Poster
  • Thos. W. Keene in Hamlet
    Thos. W. Keene in Hamlet
  • Tom Cobb
    Tom Cobb
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    Tom Taylor by Lock and Whitfield
  • Trial by Jury - Chaos in the Courtroom
    Trial by Jury - Chaos in the Courtroom
  • Utopia Limited Poster
    Utopia Limited Poster
  • Vasta spianata presso Courtray, bozzetto di Giuseppe Palanti per Edgar (s.d.) - Archivio Storico Ricordi ICON000128 B
    Vasta spianata presso Courtray, bozzetto di Giuseppe Palanti per Edgar (s.d.) - Archivio Storico Ricordi ICON000128 B
  • Verdi conducting Aida in Paris 1880 - Gallica - Restoration
    Verdi conducting Aida in Paris 1880 - Gallica - Restoration
  • Victor Hugo by Étienne Carjat 1876 - full
    Victor Hugo by Étienne Carjat 1876 - full
  • W. H. Kendal as Philamir and Madge Kendal as Zeolide in W. S. Gilbert's The Palace of Truth
    W. H. Kendal as Philamir and Madge Kendal as Zeolide in W. S. Gilbert's The Palace of Truth
  • Wally (soprano), figurino di Adolf Hohenstein per La Wally (1892) - Archivio Storico Ricordi ICON004639 - Restoration
    Wally (soprano), figurino di Adolf Hohenstein per La Wally (1892) - Archivio Storico Ricordi ICON004639 - Restoration
  • Wicked World - Illustrated London News, Feb 8 1873
    Wicked World - Illustrated London News, Feb 8 1873
  • Wilhelm - Costume design for Arac, Gunon, and Scynthius (Princess Ida, 1884)
    Wilhelm - Costume design for Arac, Gunon, and Scynthius (Princess Ida, 1884)
  • William Shakespeare by John Taylor, edited
    William Shakespeare by John Taylor, edited
  • Édouard de Reszke by Nadar (BPL Hale Coll)
    Édouard de Reszke by Nadar (BPL Hale Coll)
  • Émile Bayard - Beaumarchais - Bégéarss in La mère coupable, 1876
    Émile Bayard - Beaumarchais - Bégéarss in La mère coupable, 1876
  • Émile Bertrand - Jules Massenet - Cendrillon poster
    Émile Bertrand - Jules Massenet - Cendrillon poster

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