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Hedgerow Theatre Hedgerow Theatre
Hedgerow Theatre (Moylan, Pennsylvania). Although it was founded as a professional summer theatre in 1923 by Jasper Deeter, the theatre, housed in a converted 1840 grist mill near Philadelphia, had seen performances as early as 1904. The company, which usually consisted of about thirty actors,... Read more
American Academy of Dramatic Arts American Academy of Dramatic Arts
American Academy of Dramatic Arts (New York). The oldest ongoing American school of acting, it was founded in 1884 as the Lyceum Theatre School for Acting by Franklin Haven Sargent after Harvard, where he was a member of the faculty, rejected his plea to open a drama school there. Steele ... Read more
Henrik Johan Ibsen Henrik Johan Ibsen
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Hjalmar Bergman Hjalmar Bergman
Bergman, Hjalmar Frederik (1883–1931), Swedish dramatist and novelist, one of the most influential in the Swedish theatre after the death of Strindberg, who, with Maeterlinck and Ibsen, had a great influence on Bergman's early work. He first came into prominence with two one-act... Read more
Ryunosuke Akutagawa Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Ryunosuke Akutagawa The first Japanese author popularized in the West, Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) restated old legends and medieval history in modernist psychological terms. A prolific writer of naturalistic "slice of life" short fiction, he produced 150 stories and novellas that address human... Read more
Alla Nazimova Alla Nazimova
Alla Nazimova , 1879-1945, Russian-American actress. She turned from music to drama, studying with Stanislavsky and later appearing at the Moscow Art Theater . In 1905 she emigrated to New York City and played Russian roles in her native tongue. She made her English-speaking debut (1906) in... Read more
Eva Le Gallienne Eva Le Gallienne
Eva Le Gallienne , 1899-1991, American actress, producer, director, and translator, b. London; daughter of poet Richard Le Gallienne. She made her debut in London in 1915 and in New York City the next year. She achieved distinction in 1921 in Molnar's Liliom and became known as an outstanding... Read more
Henrik Ibsen Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Ibsen , 1828-1906, Norwegian dramatist and poet. His early years were lonely and miserable. Distressed by the consequences of his family's financial ruin and on his own at sixteen, he first was apprenticed to an apothecary. Not long after this he began writing poetry, and in 1850 he published... Read more
Walter Hampden Walter Hampden
Walter Hampden , 1879-1955, American actor, b. Brooklyn, N.Y., whose original name was Walter Hampden Dougherty. He made his first appearance in London in 1901. Returning to the United States in 1907, he supported Nazimova in an Ibsen series and later appeared in Kennedy's Servant in the House and... Read more
Henry Arthur Jones Henry Arthur Jones
Henry Arthur Jones 1851-1929, English playwright. His reputation was first established with the melodrama The Silver King (with Henry Herman; 1882). Strongly influenced by the great Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, Jones turned to writing dramas of social and moral criticism. He was the author... Read more

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