It wasn’t just terror: The Nazis won the cultural battle in a year.
For the National Socialists, everything was political.
All forms of culture — from theatre and cinema to painting and literature — were turned into instruments of propaganda and antisemitism.
It wasn’t just terror: The Nazis won the cultural battle in a year.
For the National Socialists, everything was political.
All forms of culture — from theatre and cinema to painting and literature — were turned into instruments of propaganda and antisemitism.
#OTD in 1773.
Oliver Goldsmith's comedy She Stoops to Conquer is performed for the first time, at the Covent Garden Theatre in London.
Initially the play was titled Mistakes of a Night and the events within the play take place in one long night. In 1778, John O'Keeffe wrote a loose sequel, Tony Lumpkin in Town.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/She_Stoops_to_Conquer
She Stoops to Conquer; Or, The Mistakes of a Night at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/383
"Ce n'est pas une cause
Que j'attaque ou que je défends
Et ceci n'est pas autre chose
Que l'histoire d'un pauvre enfant."
#OTD in 1900.
Sarah Bernhardt stars in premiere of Edmond Rostand's l'Aiglon. The title of the play comes from a nickname for Napoleon II, the French word for "eaglet" (a young eagle).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Aiglon
L´Aiglon at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/66793
#OTD in 1920.
The Blue Flame, a four-act play by George V. Hobart and John Willard after Leta Vance Nicholson, opens at the Shubert Theatre on Broadway before a year's U.S. tour. Though described by a critic as "one of the worst plays ever written," it is a commercial success, largely due to Theda Bara as the central character of a vamp.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blue_Flame_(play)
George V. Hobart at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/4454
#OTD in 1891.
Henrik Ibsen's play Ghosts (published in 1881) achieves a single London performance, its English-language stage première (at the Royalty Theatre). To evade the Lord Chamberlain's Office's censorship, it has to be staged privately by the Independent Theatre Society, but still attracts strong criticism on moral grounds.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghosts_(play)
Ghosts at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/2467
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/8121
Last thursday: Tom and McQ visit Hayley Atwell and her colleagues backstage, after their „Much Ado About Nothing“-Show at Royal Drury Lane Theater.
#TomCruise 
#hayleyatwell #theater #kino #film #ChristopherMcQuarrie #actor #producer #blockbuster #cinemastodon #MovieNews #movie #cinema #hollywood #filmisnotdead #movies #filmstudio #behindthescenes #filmset #filming #filmedforimax #london #postproduction #theatre #MuchAdoAboutNothing #backstage
#OTD in 1851.
The first performance of Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi takes place in Venice. The Italian libretto was written by Francesco Maria Piave based on the 1832 play Le roi s'amuse by Victor Hugo.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigoletto
Le Roi s'amuse at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29549
#OTD in 1873.
The first Azerbaijani play The Adventure of a Miser (The Adventures of the Vizier of the Khan of Lenkaran) by Mirza Fatali Akhundov is performed by Hasan bey Zardabi and dramatist Najaf bey Vazirov. This was the beginning of the Azerbaijani theatre's history.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventures_of_the_Lankaran_Khanate_Vizier
Original play in Azerbaijani is available here
https://web.archive.org/web/20220301123449/http://www.anl.az/el/emb/M.F.Axundzade/eserleri/kitab/mfa_svxlenkeran.pdf
Why Oscar Wilde’s Play About a Biblical Temptress Was Banned From the British Stage for Decades
“Salome,” a one-act tragedy by the Irish playwright, terrified the Victorian public with its provocative depiction of a teenage girl whose lust for a man quickly morphs into bloodlust
By E.R. Zarevich
More information about Salomé:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salome_(play)
Salomé at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1339
#OTD in 1885.
José Echegaray's play La vida alegre y muerte triste opens in Spain.
Along with the Provençal poet Frédéric Mistral, Echegaray was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1904, after having been nominated that year by a member of the Royal Spanish Academy, making him the first Spaniard to win the prize.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Echegaray
José Echegaray at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/40983
The producers of "Hamilton" have canceled plans to bring the hit show to the Kennedy Center next year after Trump's takeover of the institution. “Our show simply cannot, in good conscience, participate and be a part of this new culture that is being imposed on the Kennedy Center,” Jeffrey Seller said in a statement. The musical, for which tickets were yet to go on sale, was scheduled to be staged March 3-April 26 2026. Others who have canceled performances there include actor Issa Rae, singer Rhiannon Giddens, author Louise Penny and rock band Low Cut Connie. Here's more from @AssociatedPress.
HAMILTON Cancels Kennedy Center Engagement Due to Trump Takeover
#politics #arts #theatre
https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/HAMILTON-Cancels-Kennedy-Center-Engagement-Due-to-Trump-Takeover-20250305
#OTD in 1900.
New York performances of the play Sapho curbed for immorality. It is based on an 1884 French novel of the same name by Alphonse Daudet and an 1885 play by Daudet and Adolphe Belot. It was at the center of a sensational New York City indecency trial involving the play's star and producer/director, Olga Nethersole.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapho_(play)
Sapho by Alphonse Daudet at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13825
#OTD in 1924.
Seán O'Casey's drama Juno and the Paycock opens at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin. It is set in the working-class tenements of Dublin in the early 1920s, during the Irish Civil War period.
It is the second of his "Dublin Trilogy" – the other two being The Shadow of a Gunman (1923) and The Plough and the Stars (1926).
#OTD in 1854.
An adaptation of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice into Bengali, Bhānumatī-chittavilās by Hara Chandra Ghosh, is staged; also, Dinabandhu Mitra introduces Falstaff in Nabin Tapaswini.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Merchant_of_Venice
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Falstaff
At PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/1515
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1780
Hello everyone! @etalenta
My name is Yasmin and I am an Italian actress based in Florence.
I am 22 years old and I have been studying acting for nine years. From 2017 to the present I have taken part in some independent short films and about ten theatrical performances.
Looking forward to creating and connecting whit you!
This is my e-TALENTA profile: https://www.e-talenta.eu/members/profile/yasmin-al-qadri
I feel like I talk a big game about 'Degooglifying' and moving away from proprietary services, but it's really fucking hard. In the arts, everything runs off Google because 1) its free 2) everyone is poor 3) the people who took arts subjects at school didn't get taught about tech in the level of detail that is required to understand how to Degooglify in 2025. I am an anomaly in that I took ComSci and Theatre A-Levels, but we need more solidarity uniting artists and compscis.
#foss #arts #theatre
GD Parliament Set to Overhaul Theater Management System to Get More Control Over Director Appointments - https://civil.ge/archives/665699 classic stalinist move #georgia #theatre #censorship
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