Sentence examples for theater won from inspiring English sources

Initially, its work was well received; in 1979 the theater won a Tony Award for theatrical achievement and excellence in repertory performance.

During his tenure the theater won plaudits for drawing culturally diverse audiences to productions of everything from Shakespeare to Beckett, and for featuring black actors.

Broadway might have been in the haze of a post-Tony hangover Monday morning, but the math was as clear as a bell: Lincoln Center Theater won big.

WHEN the Signature Theater won this year's Tony Award for regional theaters, it was the culmination of a 20-year journey.

But World War II that was Mr. Balwin's primary interest and his coverage of the Southwest Pacific theater won him the Pulitzer in 1943.

Mr. Greenberg's "Take Me Out," which had its New York premiere at the Public Theater and ran 355 performances at the Walter Kerr Theater, won the Tony Award for best play in 2003.

Newton North has a student theater, winning athletic teams and dozens of after-school clubs (ultimate Frisbee, mock trial, black leadership, Hispanic culture, Israeli dance).

Since then she has diversified her career, moving from Broadway to television (the long-running series "Alice") and back to the theater, winning a Tony as best actress for her performance as the mother in Mr. Simon's "Broadway Bound".

In 1955 an early script, "Elisha and the Long Knives," helped the television series "Matinee Theater" win an Emmy Award, and he went on to write about 30 additional television dramas.

"Samson," too, was rife with debuts, at least on the production team, led by director Darko Tresnjak, who is mainly known for his work in spoken theater (winning a Tony in 2014 for "A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder") but has a considerable opera résumé as well.

The last few years have been particularly successful ones for the company, with the theater winning Tony Awards for "Anna Christie" in 1993, "She Loves Me" in 1994, "A View From the Bridge" and "Cabaret" in 1998, and "Little Me" and "Sideman" in 1999.