Portal:Theatre/Did you know archive

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[edit] version Feb 2008

...that Izumo no Okuni is considered the founder of Japanese Kabuki theatre?
...that Anne Meacham was praised in the New York Times by Tennessee Williams when he said "There’s nothing she won’t say or do onstage without any sign of embarrassment?"
...that the Griffin Theatre Company is the only theatre company in Sydney, Australia dedicated entirely to the production of new works by Australian playwrights?
...that the Reps Theatre, founded in 1960, is one of the oldest amateur theatrical organizations in Zimbabwe?
...that Philip Henslowe, an Elizabethan era theatre manager, wrote a diary that recorded the theatrical activities in London of that era?

[edit] March

...that Cardenio is a lost play believed to have been written by William Shakespeare?
...that Beijing opera did not actually originate in Beijing but in the Chinese provinces of Anhui and Hubei?
...that the oldest continuously-operating theatre in the English speaking world is the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania?
...that the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company staged performances of Gilbert and Sullivan's Savoy Operas in the UK, Europe, America, South Africa and elsewhere from the nineteenth century to the twenty first?
...that Kuchipudi (కుచిపుడి) is a classical dance form from Andhra Pradesh, a state of South India?