Sentence examples for practical theatre from inspiring English sources

In fact, the opera composers of the past — these guys like Mozart, Weber, Verdi, Puccini, Strauss, even Wagner — were practical theatre people.

It proclaims a really great practical theatre mind, with no philosophy except that the theatre is entertainment and that good entertainment pays".

By means of such comparisons, an accurate picture of Shakespeare not as a solitary genius but as a supremely gifted and eminently practical theatre professional indebted to actors, to other playwrights, and to a demanding public audience comes clear.

John Russell Brown, who has died aged 91, was a distinguished Shakespearean scholar who was also involved in practical theatre – he was a close associate of the director Peter Hall at the National Theatre for 15 years from 1973 – but was paradoxically opposed to directors filtering the plays though their own ideas, concepts and interpretations.

EMMYS 2013: Full coverage | Complete nominee/winner list | Live chats with contenders Louis-Dreyfus, 52, began her career in comedy as a performer in Chicago's Practical Theatre Company, and in 1985 went on to become a cast member of "Saturday Night Live".

A unique, marvellous, unrepeatable production is happening outside Bristol Old Vic for practical reasons (the theatre within is undergoing a £20m restoration).

Bigger Shakespeare plays are rarely economic to cast entirely one-to-one – although, in these cases, there is the historical justification that Shakespeare, a practical man of theatre who worked in a commercial culture, would have been familiar with doubling and the plays are frequently structured to make this easy.

Scarron's profound practical experience of the theatre is reflected in Le Roman comique, 3 vol. (1651 59).

Once restored, the owners installed a glass floor in the main dining hall – a neat yet practical bit of architectural theatre.

He is no mere mystic but a highly practical man of the theatre whose fingerprints can be discerned wherever one looks.

(It was also a way for the C.G.T., the old French Communist-dominated union, to keep a stranglehold on film and theatre, for practical and, at times, ideological reasons).