Sentence examples for licensed plays from inspiring English sources

Alleen was retired from Samuel French Publishing, where she licensed plays to theaters on Broadway and across the country.

Almost everyone on the cast list existed: a slick operator called Blagrave, who simultaneously owned one theater and licensed plays in rival houses; John Honyman, who was one of Shank's most successful apprentices; an actor called Richard Robinson, who married the widow of Richard Burbage, the tragedian who first played Hamlet and Lear.

She awarded him the right to license plays for the boy actors at the Blackfriars Theatre and a position as a groom, and later gentleman, of her privy chamber.

Licensing plays a crucial role in the regulation of municipal wastewater effluents by setting standards or limits designed to protect the economic, environmental and societal values of waterbodies.

His duties were to supervise and censor plays for the public theatres, arrange court performances of plays, and, after 1606, to license plays for publication.

In 1737 Amhurst published in it a letter purporting to come from Colley Cibber, then poet laureate, attacking the new (censorship) act for licensing plays; for this "suspected libel," Amhurst and the printer of the journal were imprisoned.

The producers have also licensed the play to 60 troupes across the globe, from Australia to Venezuela.

Thirty-four states recognize a need for these loans and the important role that regulated, licensed lenders play in credit markets.

The popularity of his tale, and the fear that others would be drawn to emulate his behaviour, led the authorities to refuse to license any plays in London with "Jack Sheppard" in the title for forty years.

All of them involved actions — peddling, picketing, parading without a license, playing loud music from a truck.

He says that "we're definitely more commercially oriented" and notes that licenses play a bigger role in the American market than overseas.