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Breuer, Lee

(Encyclopedia) Breuer, Lee,1937-2021, American theater director, b. Philadelphia, PA, as Esser Leopold Breuer. Theatrical director and cofounder of experimental theater troupe, the Mabou Mines,…

Piscator, Erwin

(Encyclopedia) Piscator, ErwinPiscator, Erwinpĭskäˈtôr [key], 1893–1966, German theatrical director and producer who, with Bertolt Brecht, was the foremost exponent of epic theater, a genre that…

Comédie Française

(Encyclopedia) Comédie FrançaiseComédie Françaisekōmādēˈ fräNsĕzˈ [key] or Théâtre FrançaisComédie Françaisetāäˈtrə fräNsāˈ [key], state theater of France. Also known as La Maison de Molière, it was…

Ward, Douglas Turner

(Encyclopedia) Ward, Douglas Turner, 1930-2021, African-American actor, director, and playwright, b. Burnside, La., as Roosevelt Ward Jr. Ward’s…

Canadian Pacific Railway

(Encyclopedia) Canadian Pacific Railway, transcontinental transportation system in Canada and extending into the United States, privately owned and operated. The construction of a railroad crossing…

Iquique

(Encyclopedia) IquiqueIquiqueēkēˈkā [key], city (1990 est. pop. 148,500), capital of Iquique prov., N Chile. A port on the Pacific, it exports nitrates and ore from the Atacama Desert. The city,…

transcontinental railroad

(Encyclopedia) transcontinental railroad, in U.S. history, rail connection with the Pacific coast. In 1845, Asa Whitney presented to Congress a plan for the federal government to subsidize the…

Hôtel de Bourgogne

(Encyclopedia) Hôtel de BourgogneHôtel de Bourgogneōtĕlˈ də b&oobreve;rgôˈnyə [key], first theater in Paris. It was built in 1548 by the Confraternity of the Passion, the Paris actors' monopoly.…

Durang, Christopher Ferdinand

(Encyclopedia) Durang, Christopher Ferdinand, 1949- , American playwright and actor, b. Montclair, N.J., Harvard Univ. (B.A., 1971), Yale Univ. (M.F.…

Rodgers, Richard Charles

(Encyclopedia) Rodgers, Richard Charles, 1902–79, American composer, b. New York City. Rodgers studied at Columbia and the Institute of Musical Art, New York City. He met both of his future…