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Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music, and dance. It is the oldest form of drama, though live theatre has now been joined by modern recorded forms. Elements of art, such as painted scenery and stagecraft such as lighting are used to enhance the physicality, presence and immediacy of the experience. Places, normally buildings, where performances regularly take place are also called "theatres" (or "theaters"), as derived from the Ancient Greek θέατρον (théatron, "a place for viewing"), itself from θεάομαι (theáomai, "to see", "to watch", "to observe").
A theatre company is an organisation that produces theatrical performances, as distinct from a theatre troupe (or acting company), which is a group of theatrical performers working together. (Full article...)
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- June 1643 – Molière, considered one of the greatest comedic playwrights in the Western tradition, left his prosperous family and embarked on a theatrical career
- 6 June 1954 - Birth of Harvey Fierstein, a Tony Award winning American actor and playwright
- 10 June 1911 - Birth of Terence Rattigan, a British dramatist whose plays include The Browning Version and The Deep Blue Sea
- 18 June 1979 – Death of Rodolfo Usigli, "the playwright of the Mexican Revolution"
- 20 June 1703 – Premiere of The Love Suicides at Sonezaki by Chikamatsu Monzaemon (pictured), often considered the greatest Japanese dramatist
- 21 June 1737 – Licensing Act of 1737 passed, a landmark act of censorship, which gave the Lord Chamberlain the power to approve plays to be staged in England
- 24 June 1924 – Birth of Efua Sutherland, a foundational figure in modern Ghanaian drama
- 28 June 1867 - Birth of Luigi Pirandello, the Nobel Prize winning Italian writer of Six Characters in Search of an Author and many other plays
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- ... that in 2017, the Hudson Theatre was both the newest Broadway theater and one of the oldest?
- ... that during the first tour to the Soviet Union by any American ballet company, Lupe Serrano danced the first encore in the American Ballet Theatre's history?
- ... that actress Zita Moulton first starred in theatre performances after a bet with her fiancé that she would be able to get a stage job within 24 hours?
- ... that despite plans to restore the Sam H. Harris Theatre in the 1990s, it became an entrance to a wax museum?
- ... that the historic facade of Henry Miller's Theatre is preserved at the base of the Bank of America Tower, while the theater's interior was rebuilt underground?
- ... that the framework of One Astor Plaza was "a humdinger of an engineering feat" because it was built over the Minskoff Theatre?
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- ...that according to the Marlovian theory of Shakespeare authorship, works attributed to William Shakespeare were actually written by playwright Christopher Marlowe (pictured), who faked his own death in 1593 to continue writing under a Shakespeare pseudonym?
- ..that Heroes actor David Anders was recognized with a Back Stage West Garland Award along with the ensemble cast of The Diary of Anne Frank, for their 2001 production?
- ...that A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant had its name changed due to threats of litigation from the Church of Scientology?
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