Sentence examples for an initial run at from inspiring English sources

He started directing at school and continued to mount ambitious student productions at university, persuading the professional actor Christopher Gable to appear in his staging of Goethe's Faust, which played a short season at London's Young Vic after an initial run at the Oxford Playhouse.

Even Facebook shifted toward supporting native development for third-party apps after an initial run at an HTMl5-based platform fell short of expectations.

It's a message brought to life in his play, which received an initial run last winter at Los Angeles' NoHo Arts Center.

Despite a poor initial run at the box office, the film emerged as a profitable venture.

and printed an initial run of a thousand copies.

An initial run of the musical at the Théâtre de Châtelet in Paris, at the end of 2014, concluded days before the attack at the offices of Charlie Hebdo.

But the seal of greatness is conferred on the revival in the pit, where Charles Mackerras takes charge of a score he first conducted during the opera's initial run at Sadler's Wells in 1954.

That double-dip in the pool of rejection, though, wasn't enough to stop the GoPad, which is now not only available for pre-order after having sold out its initial run at $89, but is taking on a new version for the iPad mini.

After its initial run at the Cherry Lane, it moved and finally reopened at the Douglas Fairbanks Theater.

As it happened, I needn't have worried: the play easily retained its relevance during its initial run at the Hampstead Theatre, and continued to do so both on tour, and later in the West End.

This particular production, created by the director Phelim McDermott and the designer Julian Crouch of the Improbable Theater Company of London and using puppets and acrobats, met with general acclaim during its initial run at the English National Opera in April.