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Globe Theatre
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The Globe Theatre was a theatre in London associated with William Shakespeare. A second Globe Theatre was built on the site by June 1614. A modern reconstruction of the Globe, named Shakespeares Globe, opened in 1997 approximately 750 feet from the site of the original theatre, from 1909, the current Gielgud Theatre was called Globe Theatre, until it was renamed in 1994. The shape of the foundations is now replicated on the surface, as the majority of the foundations lies beneath 67—70 Anchor Terrace, a listed building, no further excavations have been permitted. The Globe was owned by actors who were shareholders in the Lord Chamberlains Men. 5%. These initial proportions changed over time as new sharers were added, Shakespeares share diminished from 1/8 to 1/14, or roughly 7%, over the course of his career. The Globe was built in 1599 using timber from a theatre, The Theatre. The Burbages originally had a 21-year lease of the site on which the theatre was built, however, the landlord, Giles Allen, claimed that the building had become his with the expiry of the lease. While only a hundred yards from the shore of the Thames. The new theatre was larger than the building it replaced, with the older timbers being reused as part of the new structure and he suggests that a Swiss tourists account of a performance of Julius Caesar witnessed on 21 September 1599 describes the more likely first production. The first performance for which a record remains was Jonsons Every Man out of His Humour—with its first scene welcoming the gracious. On 29 June 1613 the Globe Theatre went up in flames during a performance of Henry VIII, a theatrical cannon, set off during the performance, misfired, igniting the wooden beams and thatching. According to one of the few surviving documents of the event, no-one was severely injured in the event. It was rebuilt in the following year, like all the other theatres in London, the Globe was closed down by the Puritans in 1642. It was pulled down in 1644-45, the cited document dating the act to 15 April 1644 has been identified as a probable forgery—to make room for tenements. A modern reconstruction of the theatre, named Shakespeares Globe, opened in 1997 and it is an academic approximation of the original design, based on available evidence of the 1599 and 1614 buildings, and is located approximately 750 feet from the site of the original theatre. The Globes actual dimensions are unknown, but its shape and size can be approximated from scholarly inquiry over the last two centuries, the evidence suggests that it was a three-storey, open-air amphitheatre approximately 100 feet in diameter that could house up to 3,000 spectators. The Globe is shown as round on Wenceslas Hollars sketch of the building, however, in 1988–89, the uncovering of a small part of the Globes foundation suggested that it was a polygon of 20 sides
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Shakespeare
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William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the worlds pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called Englands national poet, and the Bard of Avon and his extant works, including collaborations, consist of approximately 38 plays,154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright, Shakespeare was born and brought up in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children, Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Sometime between 1585 and 1592, he began a career in London as an actor, writer. He appears to have retired to Stratford around 1613, at age 49, Shakespeare produced most of his known work between 1589 and 1613. His early plays were primarily comedies and histories, which are regarded as some of the best work ever produced in these genres. He then wrote mainly tragedies until about 1608, including Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, in his last phase, he wrote tragicomedies, also known as romances, and collaborated with other playwrights. Many of his plays were published in editions of varying quality and it was prefaced with a poem by Ben Jonson, in which Shakespeare is hailed, presciently, as not of an age, but for all time. In the 20th and 21st centuries, his works have been adapted and rediscovered by new movements in scholarship. His plays remain highly popular and are studied, performed. William Shakespeare was the son of John Shakespeare, an alderman and a successful glover originally from Snitterfield, and Mary Arden and he was born in Stratford-upon-Avon and baptised there on 26 April 1564. His actual date of birth unknown, but is traditionally observed on 23 April. This date, which can be traced back to an 18th-century scholars mistake, has proved appealing to biographers because Shakespeare died on 23 April 1616 and he was the third child of eight and the eldest surviving son. At the age of 18, Shakespeare married 26-year-old Anne Hathaway, the consistory court of the Diocese of Worcester issued a marriage licence on 27 November 1582. The next day, two of Hathaways neighbours posted bonds guaranteeing that no lawful claims impeded the marriage, twins, son Hamnet and daughter Judith, followed almost two years later and were baptised 2 February 1585. Hamnet died of unknown causes at the age of 11 and was buried 11 August 1596, after the birth of the twins, Shakespeare left few historical traces until he is mentioned as part of the London theatre scene in 1592. The exception is the appearance of his name in the bill of a law case before the Queens Bench court at Westminster dated Michaelmas Term 1588 and 9 October 1589
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Southern Utah University
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Southern Utah University is a public university located in Cedar City, Utah, United States, founded in 1898. Originally a normal school, Southern Utah University now graduates over 1,700 students each year with baccalaureate and graduate degrees from its six colleges, SUU offers more than 85 undergraduate degrees and eight graduate programs. There are more than 8,000 students that attend SUU, SUU’s 17 athletic teams compete in Division 1 of the NCAA and are collectively known as the Thunderbirds. SUU joined the Big Sky Conference in September 2012, in the spring of 1897, Cedar City was notified it had been chosen as the site for the Branch Normal School, the region’s first teaching training school in southern Utah. For the next three months, citizens labored to complete Ward Hall on Main Street for the first school year, in September, the school opened its doors. Cedar City residents came together and in January 5,1898 and it took them four days to reach the sawmills, located near present-day Brian Head Ski Resort. Upon arrival, they realized the wagons they brought with them could not carry logs through the heavy snow, the way back was just as hard as the trip up. The snow continued to fall destroying the trail they originally took and it was this phase of their march that an old sorrel horse proved valuable. Placed at the front of the party, the horse would walk into the drifts, then he would pause for a rest and then get up and start over again. “Old Sorrel” was credited with being the savior of the expedition, from January through July they kept up their labors and when September 1898 arrived, Old Main was almost completed. It had a chapel for religious assemblies, a library and reading room. Milton Bennion was first principal for the Branch Normal School, courageous and young, Bennion brought a code of integrity to the students of BNS. He established a student body. Bennion directed 161 students during his time as principal, the BNS started classes with four teachers, now known as the Founding Four. Bennion, who acted as principal, taught history, geography, Howard R. Driggs acted as the first English professor at BNS until 1905. During his career, Dr. Driggs was both a professor of English education and historian of the American West, SUU still honors his name with the Howard R. Driggs Collection located in the Gerald R. Sherratt Library and plays host to a semi-annual lectures by national scholars. The third, George W. Decker was a southern Utah native and was adamant about teaching from the point of view rather from a book. Students loved him so much that a request by the student body to proper authorities was the point to his appointment as the fourth principal of BNS
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Cedar City, Utah
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Cedar City is a city in Iron County, Utah, United States,250 miles south of Salt Lake City, and 180 miles north of Las Vegas on Interstate 15. It is the home of Southern Utah University, the Utah Shakespeare Festival, the Utah Summer Games, the Neil Simon Theatre Festival, as of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 28,857. Ancestors of the present-day southern Paiute Indians met the Dominguez–Escalante Expedition in this area in 1776, fifty years later, in 1826, mountain man and fur trader Jedediah Smith traveled through the area exploring a route from Utah to California. Cedar City was originally settled in late 1851 by Mormon pioneers originating from Parowan, Utah, who were sent to build an iron works. The site, known as Fort Cedar or Cedar City, was equidistant from vast iron deposits 10 miles west and coal resources 10 miles up Cedar Canyon, but was named after the abundant local trees. Two companies of men led by Henry Lunt reached the site in a blizzard on November 11,1851. In 1855, a new site, closer to the works and out of the flood plain of Coal Creek, was established at the suggestion of Brigham Young. Cedar City was incorporated on February 18,1868, the iron works closed in 1858, though iron mining continued in the area until the 1980s. Cedar City continues to be a center of tourism, commercial development, education, the city has shared in the rapid growth of much of Southwestern Utah since the late 1980s. Cedar City is located in the southeast Great Basin, and is about 20 miles north of the edge of the Mojave Desert. Its elevation of 5,840 feet gives it a cooler and less arid climate vis-à-vis nearby Dixie, Cedar City is located at 37°4057 North, 113°428 West. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 20.1 square miles. The city is located on the edge of the Markagunt Plateau, in a high desert valley, Cedar Valley. The climate is the typical cool semi-arid climate of the Mountain West, though snowfall can be quite heavy, Interstate 15 connects the city with St. George and Las Vegas to the south, and to Interstate 70 and Salt Lake City to the north. State roads connect Cedar City with Panaca, Nevada near US93, Kanab, Utah via US-89, similar to St. George, the city enjoys an excellent location on the wests regional transportation network. Los Angeles is 439 miles south and San Diego is 500 miles south on Interstate 15, Phoenix is 465 miles south via Interstate 15 and US-93, a branch line of the Union Pacific Railroad serves customers on the western outskits of the city. The branch connects to the main line at Lund. Cedar City Regional Airport offers flights via Delta Connection, as of the census of 2000, there were 20,527 people,6,486 households, and 4,682 families residing in the city
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Christopher Marlowe
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Christopher Marlowe, also known as Kit Marlowe, was an English playwright, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era. Marlowe was the foremost Elizabethan tragedian of his day and he greatly influenced William Shakespeare, who was born in the same year as Marlowe and who rose to become the pre-eminent Elizabethan playwright after Marlowes mysterious early death. Marlowes plays are known for the use of verse and their overreaching protagonists. A warrant was issued for Marlowes arrest on 18 May 1593, no reason was given for it, though it was thought to be connected to allegations of blasphemy—a manuscript believed to have been written by Marlowe was said to contain vile heretical conceipts. On 20 May, he was brought to the court to attend upon the Privy Council for questioning, there is no record of their having met that day, however, and he was commanded to attend upon them each day thereafter until licensed to the contrary. Ten days later, he was stabbed to death by Ingram Frizer, whether the stabbing was connected to his arrest has never been resolved. Marlowe was born in Canterbury to shoemaker John Marlowe and his wife Catherine and his date of birth is not known, but he was baptised on 26 February 1564, and is likely to have been born a few days before. Thus, he was just two months older than his contemporary William Shakespeare, who was baptised on 26 April 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon. Marlowe attended The Kings School in Canterbury and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, however, his degree was awarded on schedule when the Privy Council intervened on his behalf, commending him for his faithful dealing and good service to the Queen. No direct evidence supports this theory, although the Councils letter is evidence that Marlowe had served the government in some secret capacity, of the dramas attributed to Marlowe, Dido, Queen of Carthage is believed to have been his first. It was performed by the Children of the Chapel, a company of boy actors, the play was first published in 1594, the title page attributes the play to Marlowe and Thomas Nashe. Marlowes first play performed on the stage in London, in 1587, was Tamburlaine the Great, about the conqueror Tamburlaine. It is among the first English plays in verse, and, with Thomas Kyds The Spanish Tragedy. Tamburlaine was a success, and was followed with Tamburlaine the Great, the two parts of Tamburlaine were published in 1590, all Marlowes other works were published posthumously. The sequence of the writing of his four plays is unknown. The Jew of Malta, about a Maltese Jews barbarous revenge against the city authorities, has a prologue delivered by a character representing Machiavelli and it was probably written in 1589 or 1590, and was first performed in 1592. It was a success, and remained popular for the fifty years. The play was entered in the Stationers Register on 17 May 1594, Edward the Second is an English history play about the deposition of King Edward II by his barons and the Queen, who resent the undue influence the kings favourites have in court and state affairs
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Musical theatre
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Musical theatre is a form of theatrical performance that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting, and dance. The story and emotional content of a musical – humor, pathos, love, anger – are communicated through the words, music, movement, since the early 20th century, musical theatre stage works have generally been called, simply, musicals. These were followed by the numerous Edwardian musical comedies and the theatre works of American creators like George M. Cohan. Musicals are performed around the world and they may be presented in large venues, such as big-budget Broadway or West End productions in New York City or London. Alternatively, musicals may be staged in smaller fringe theatre, Off-Broadway or regional theatre productions, musicals are often presented by amateur and school groups in churches, schools and other performance spaces. In addition to the United States and Britain, there are vibrant musical theatre scenes in continental Europe, Asia, Australasia, Canada, the three main components of a book musical are its music, lyrics and book. The interpretation of a musical is the responsibility of its team, which includes a director. A musicals production is also characterized by technical aspects, such as set design, costumes, stage properties, lighting. The creative team, designs and interpretations generally change from the production to succeeding productions. Some production elements, however, may be retained from the production, for example. There is no fixed length for a musical, while it can range from a short one-act entertainment to several acts and several hours in length, most musicals range from one and a half to three hours. Musicals are usually presented in two acts, with one intermission, and the first act is frequently longer than the second. A book musical is usually built four to six main theme tunes that are reprised later in the show. Several shorter musicals on Broadway and in the West End have been presented in one act in recent decades, moments of greatest dramatic intensity in a book musical are often performed in song. Proverbially, when the emotion becomes too strong for speech, you sing, typically, many fewer words are sung in a five-minute song than are spoken in a five-minute block of dialogue. Therefore, there is time to develop drama in a musical than in a straight play of equivalent length. Within the compressed nature of a musical, the writers must develop the characters, the material presented in a musical may be original, or it may be adapted from novels, plays, classic legends, historical events or films. On the other hand, many musical theatre works have been adapted for musical films, such as West Side Story, My Fair Lady, The Sound of Music, Oliver
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Proscenium
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The concept of the fourth wall of the theatre stage space that faces the audience is essentially the same. It can be considered as a construct which divides the actors. But since the curtain comes down just behind the proscenium arch, it has a physical reality when the curtain is down. A proscenium stage is different from a thrust stage or an arena stage. Skene is the Greek word for the tent, and later building, at the back of the stage from which actors entered, in the Hellenistic period it became an increasingly large and elaborate stone structure, often with three storeys. In Greek theatre, which unlike Roman included painted scenery, the proskenion might also carry scenery, in the Greek and Roman theatre, no proscenium arch existed, in the modern sense, and the acting space was always fully in the view of the audience. Modern halls designed mainly for orchestral music often adopt similar arrangements, the oldest surviving indoor theatre of the modern era, the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza, is sometimes incorrectly referred to as the first example of a proscenium theatre. The Teatro Olimpico was a reconstruction of a Roman theatre. It has a plain proscaenium at the front of the stage, dropping to the level, now usually containing stalls seating. However, the Teatro Olimpicos exact replication of the open and accessible Roman stage was the rather than the rule in sixteenth-century theatre design. Engravings suggest that the arch was already in use as early as 1560 at a production in Siena. The earliest true proscenium arch to survive in a permanent theatre is the Teatro Farnese in Parma, Parma has a clearly defined arco scenico—more like a picture frame than an arch, but serving the same purpose—outlining the stage and separating the audience from the action on-stage. While the proscenium arch became an important feature of the traditional European theatre, often becoming very large and elaborate, what the Romans would have called the proscaenium is, in modern theatres with orchestra pits, normally painted black in order that it does not draw attention. In this early modern recreation of a Roman theatre confusion seems to have introduced to the use of the revived term in Italian. There is no evidence at all for this assumption, the Italian word for a scaenae frons is proscenio, a major change from Latin. It would also be possible to retain the classical frons scaenae. The Italian arco scenico has been translated as proscenium arch, the result is that in this theatre the architectural spaces for the audience and the action. Are distinct in treatment yet united by their juxtaposition, no proscenium arch separates them, a proscenium arch creates a window around the scenery and performers. A proscenium theatre layout also simplifies the hiding and obscuring of objects from the audiences view, anything that is not meant to be seen is simply placed outside the window created by the proscenium arch, either in the wings or in the flyspace above the stage
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Geographic coordinate system
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A geographic coordinate system is a coordinate system used in geography that enables every location on Earth to be specified by a set of numbers, letters or symbols. The coordinates are chosen such that one of the numbers represents a vertical position. A common choice of coordinates is latitude, longitude and elevation, to specify a location on a two-dimensional map requires a map projection. The invention of a coordinate system is generally credited to Eratosthenes of Cyrene. Ptolemy credited him with the adoption of longitude and latitude. Ptolemys 2nd-century Geography used the prime meridian but measured latitude from the equator instead. Mathematical cartography resumed in Europe following Maximus Planudes recovery of Ptolemys text a little before 1300, in 1884, the United States hosted the International Meridian Conference, attended by representatives from twenty-five nations. Twenty-two of them agreed to adopt the longitude of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, the Dominican Republic voted against the motion, while France and Brazil abstained. France adopted Greenwich Mean Time in place of local determinations by the Paris Observatory in 1911, the latitude of a point on Earths surface is the angle between the equatorial plane and the straight line that passes through that point and through the center of the Earth. Lines joining points of the same latitude trace circles on the surface of Earth called parallels, as they are parallel to the equator, the north pole is 90° N, the south pole is 90° S. The 0° parallel of latitude is designated the equator, the plane of all geographic coordinate systems. The equator divides the globe into Northern and Southern Hemispheres, the longitude of a point on Earths surface is the angle east or west of a reference meridian to another meridian that passes through that point. All meridians are halves of great ellipses, which converge at the north and south poles, the prime meridian determines the proper Eastern and Western Hemispheres, although maps often divide these hemispheres further west in order to keep the Old World on a single side. The antipodal meridian of Greenwich is both 180°W and 180°E, the combination of these two components specifies the position of any location on the surface of Earth, without consideration of altitude or depth. The grid formed by lines of latitude and longitude is known as a graticule, the origin/zero point of this system is located in the Gulf of Guinea about 625 km south of Tema, Ghana. To completely specify a location of a feature on, in, or above Earth. Earth is not a sphere, but a shape approximating a biaxial ellipsoid. It is nearly spherical, but has an equatorial bulge making the radius at the equator about 0. 3% larger than the radius measured through the poles, the shorter axis approximately coincides with the axis of rotation
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Wooden O Symposium
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The Wooden O Symposium is a cross disciplinary conference exploring Medieval, Renaissance, and Early Modern Studies, through the study and performance of the works of William Shakespeare. Scholars from many disciplines present papers that offer insights and new ideas springing from the era of William Shakespeare and his plays are replete with the language, thoughts and arts of the Renaissance and Western culture and represent an inexhaustible source for creative ideas and research. The symposium is hosted by Southern Utah University, home of the Tony Award-winning Utah Shakespearean Festival, a major focus of the scholarly event is the interface between scholarship and performance and how the pursuit of one area can enrich and inform the other. The Festival is noted for the Adams Memorial Theater, a open air performance space modeled after Shakespeares own Globe Theatre. This academic conference takes place every year in Cedar City, Utah, Wooden O Symposium -- Official Web site Utah Shakespearean Festival -- Official Web site
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Internet Broadway Database
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The Internet Broadway Database is an online database of Broadway theatre productions and their personnel. It was conceived and created by Karen Hauser in 1996 and is operated by the Research Department of The Broadway League, the website also has a corresponding app for both the IOS and Android. This comprehensive history of Broadway provides records of productions from the beginnings of New York theatre in the 18th century up to today, details include cast and creative lists for opening night and current day, song lists, awards and other interesting facts about every Broadway production. Other features of IBDB include an archive of photos from past and present Broadway productions, headshots, links to cast recordings on iTunes or Amazon, gross. Its mission was to be an interactive, user-friendly, searchable database for League members, journalists, researchers, the League recently added Broadway Touring shows to the database for ease of tracking shows that play in theatres across the country. It is managed by Karen Hauser, Michael Abourizk, and Mark Smith of the Broadway League, Internet Theatre Database – ITDb Internet Movie Database – IMDb Internet Book Database – IBookDb Lortel Archives – IOBDb The Broadway League Official website Broadway League website
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Southern Utah Thunderbirds
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Southern Utah University is a public university located in Cedar City, Utah, United States, founded in 1898. Originally a normal school, Southern Utah University now graduates over 1,700 students each year with baccalaureate and graduate degrees from its six colleges, SUU offers more than 85 undergraduate degrees and eight graduate programs. There are more than 8,000 students that attend SUU, SUU’s 17 athletic teams compete in Division 1 of the NCAA and are collectively known as the Thunderbirds. SUU joined the Big Sky Conference in September 2012, in the spring of 1897, Cedar City was notified it had been chosen as the site for the Branch Normal School, the region’s first teaching training school in southern Utah. For the next three months, citizens labored to complete Ward Hall on Main Street for the first school year, in September, the school opened its doors. Cedar City residents came together and in January 5,1898 and it took them four days to reach the sawmills, located near present-day Brian Head Ski Resort. Upon arrival, they realized the wagons they brought with them could not carry logs through the heavy snow, the way back was just as hard as the trip up. The snow continued to fall destroying the trail they originally took and it was this phase of their march that an old sorrel horse proved valuable. Placed at the front of the party, the horse would walk into the drifts, then he would pause for a rest and then get up and start over again. “Old Sorrel” was credited with being the savior of the expedition, from January through July they kept up their labors and when September 1898 arrived, Old Main was almost completed. It had a chapel for religious assemblies, a library and reading room. Milton Bennion was first principal for the Branch Normal School, courageous and young, Bennion brought a code of integrity to the students of BNS. He established a student body. Bennion directed 161 students during his time as principal, the BNS started classes with four teachers, now known as the Founding Four. Bennion, who acted as principal, taught history, geography, Howard R. Driggs acted as the first English professor at BNS until 1905. During his career, Dr. Driggs was both a professor of English education and historian of the American West, SUU still honors his name with the Howard R. Driggs Collection located in the Gerald R. Sherratt Library and plays host to a semi-annual lectures by national scholars. The third, George W. Decker was a southern Utah native and was adamant about teaching from the point of view rather from a book. Students loved him so much that a request by the student body to proper authorities was the point to his appointment as the fourth principal of BNS
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Southern Utah Thunderbirds football
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The Southern Utah Thunderbirds football program is a college football team that represents Southern Utah University. With a history dating back to 1963, SUU currently competes in the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision as a member of the Big Sky Conference, the Thunderbirds currently play their home games at Eccles Coliseum, located on the campus in Cedar City, Utah. Since 2016, Demario Warren has served as the Thunderbirds head coach, Southern Utah fielded their inaugural team as part of the 1963 college football season and Bruce Osborne served as head coach. Southern remained as an independent through the 1968 season when they became a member of the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference. The Thunderbirds competed as a member of the RMAC from 1969 to 1985 and had a record of 86–73–3 during that time. Following the 1985 season, Southern Utah made the move from the RMAC of the NAIA to the NCAA Division II Western Football Conference for the 1986 season, as part of the WFC from 1986 to 1992, the Thunderbirds had an overall record of 41–34–1 during that time. For the 1993 season, Southern Utah joined the American West Conference as a charter member, the move to the AWC also marked the move from Division II to NCAA Division I-AA for the program. The AWC folded following the 1995 season with the Thunderbirds compiling a record of 9–23–1. After competing eight years as an Independent, Southern Utah once again became a conference member. They had an 8-3 regular season, with losses to Utah State, South Dakota State, with the victory and success, head coach Ed Lamb joined the Brigham Young University coaching staff and was replaced by Defensive Coordinator Demario Warren
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Southern Utah Thunderbirds men's basketball
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The Southern Utah Thunderbirds Basketball team is the mens basketball team that represents Southern Utah University in Cedar City, Utah. The schools team competes in the Big Sky Conference. The Thunderbirds are coached by Todd Simon, the Thunderbirds have appeared once in the NCAA Tournament in 2001. They were eliminated in the first round by Boston College giving them a tournament record of 0–1, the Thunderbirds have appeared in the NAIA Tournament one time
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Southern Utah Thunderbirds women's basketball
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The Southern Utah Thunderbirds womens basketball team is the womens basketball team that represents Southern Utah University in Cedar City, Utah. They currently compete in the Big Sky Conference, Southern Utah began play in 1975
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Eccles Coliseum
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Eccles Coliseum is an 8, 500-seat multi-purpose stadium in Cedar City, Utah. It is home to the Southern Utah University Thunderbirds track & field team, the stadium also hosts the Utah Summer Games opening ceremonies and several events. Spencer Eccles Eccles Coliseum Page at Southern Utah University Athletics website, Utah Summer Games at Utah Summer Games website
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KSUU
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KSUU is a radio station broadcasting an Alternative rock format. Licensed to Cedar City, Utah, United States, the station is owned by the Southern Utah University. The station went on the air as KGSU-FM on 1980-09-30, on 1994-12-23, the station changed its call sign to the current KSUU. Query the FCCs FM station database for KSUU Radio-Locator information on KSUU Query Nielsen Audios FM station database for KSUU
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Arena Stage
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Arena Stage is a not-for-profit regional theater based in Southwest, Washington, D. C. It was a pioneer in 1950 of the Regional Theater Movement, the Artistic Director is Molly Smith and the Executive Director is Edgar Dobie. It is the largest company in the dedicated to American plays. It commissions and develops new plays through the American Voices New Play Institute, established in 1950, the company now serves an annual audience of more than 300,000. Its productions have received local and national awards, including the Tony Award for best regional theater. The theatre company was founded in Washington, DC in 1950 and its first home was the Hippodrome Theatre, a former movie house. In 1956, the moved into the gymnasium of the old Heurich Brewery in Foggy Bottom. The brewery was demolished in 1961 to make way for the Theodore Roosevelt Bridge, in 1960, the company moved into its current building complex, which was built for them. The theater companys home is near the Washington, D. C. waterfront on the Potomac River, one of the founders, Zelda Fichandler, was its artistic director from its founding through the 1990/91 season. Wager succeeded her for the 1991/92 through 1997/98 seasons, the current artistic director, Molly Smith, assumed those duties beginning with the 1998/99 season. Arena Stage was one of the first not-for-profit theaters in the United States and was a pioneer of the Regional Theater Movement, in 1973, it was the first regional theater invited by the U. S. State Department to tour behind the Iron Curtain. In 1976, Arena Stage became the theater outside New York to receive a special Tony Award for theatrical excellence. A major renovation of the facility was undertaken from 2008 through 2010, the architect was Bing Thom Architects of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada who contracted Fast + Epp consulting engineers to design the main columns for the building. The Fichandler Stage and Kreeger Theater were largely untouched, but the theaters connecting structures were demolished, the two stages are now surrounded by a glass curtain wall and incorporated into a larger building. A third, new theater was added in the renovation, called The Kogod Cradle, for new. The new building includes a central lobby and the Catwalk Cafe. The entire $135 million complex has been renamed Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater in honor of supporters Gilbert and Jaylee Mead. Arena Stage re-opened for the season in October 2010, the capacity of its three theatres follows, The Fichandler Stage, a theater in the round, seating 680, the Kreeger Theater, a modified thrust stage theater, seating 514
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American Conservatory Theater
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American Conservatory Theater is a large non-profit theater company in San Francisco, California, that offers both classical and contemporary theater productions, as well as being an acting school. A. C. T. was founded in 1965 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in conjunction with the Pittsburgh Playhouse and Carnegie Mellon University by theatre, San Francisco Chronicle critic Paine Knickerbocker acclaimed Balls opening performance of Molières Tartuffe as a screaming, bellowing unbelievable triumph. In the mid-1980s, Ball, suffering from exhaustion and under accusations of mismanagement, was forced to relinquish his post as artistic director. Founding member and stage director Edward Hastings, who revived the companys fortunes until the Geary Theatre was severely damaged by the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, the company continued performing in a variety of San Francisco venues while laying the groundwork for its restoration. Since 1992, Carey Perloff has served as A. C. T. s Artistic Director, a. C. T. is now financially secure and has achieved continued acclaim for its work. Released a cast album of Perloffs production of the Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill musical Happy End and it includes the full score and is the first English language recording of this musical. A. C. T. s home in San Francisco is the eponymous American Conservatory Theater, previously known as the Columbia Theater, the American Conservatory Theater was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 27,1975. A. C. T. s founders vision was for it to be both a company and acting school. The conservatory currently offers a range of classes and is accredited to grant Master of Fine Arts degrees for actors. Its MFA program is competitive, admitting only eight students per year among hundreds who audition. It was ranked by U. S. News & World Report as one of the top five graduate acting training programs in the U. S. along with schools like Juilliard, Yale, the current director of the conservatory is Melissa Smith. Tom OBrien, Harry Hamlin, Anna Deavere Smith, Omar Metwally, Steven W. Bailey, in addition to the MFA program, A. C. T. offers training through the Studio A. C. T. The Summer Training Congress, and Young Conservatory programs, alumni of these programs include Nicolas Cage, Teri Hatcher, Delroy Lindo, Milo Ventimiglia, Winona Ryder, Camryn Manheim, Marcus Orelias, Darren Criss, and Chris Pine. A. C. T. s Young Conservatory is a recognized professional theater training program for youth through the ages of 19. It was founded by Luanne and Ross Graham in 1971, successive YC directors include, Candace Birk, Sharon Newman, Linda Aldrich, and Susan Stauter. The program has led since 1988 by the acclaimed Craig Slaight. The Young Conservatory is geared at performing new works specifically for young actors, the conservatory members are also offered roles in the mainstage productions, most frequently A Christmas Carol, which is performed every winter. The first person to be given the sound designer in regional theatre was Dan Dugan at A. C. T. in the late 1960s
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Actors Theatre of Louisville
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Actors Theatre of Louisville is a non-profit performing arts theater located in downtown Louisville, Kentucky. Actors Theatre was founded in 1964 following the merging of two companies, Actors, Inc and Theatre Louisville, operated by Louisville natives Ewel Cornett. Designated as the State Theater of Kentucky in 1974, the theater has emerged as one of Americas most consistently innovative professional theater companies, the theater has toured to 29 cities and 15 countries worldwide, totaling more than 1,400 appearances internationally. More than 380 Humana Festival plays have been published in anthologies and individual acting editions, making Actors Theatre a visible, the Humana Festival is the premier event of its kind in the nation, drawing theater lovers, journalists, and film and stage producers from around the world. The Festival culminates in two Industry Weekends which bring together a collection of amazing new plays with one-of-a-kind panels, cocktail parties, discussions and it is the perfect opportunity to see new work, make new connections, and support the creation of new American theater. In May 1969, Jon Jory, the son of stage and his appointment marked a renaissance for the theater and throughout his tenure, he proved himself to be a visionary artistic leader and innovative producer. During this three decades in Louisville he produced more than 1,300 plays, increased Actors Theatres budget from $244,000 to $8.3 million and his Louisville debut was in October 1969 with Dylan Thomas Under Milk Wood. Marc Masterson was appointed the companys new Artistic Director in the summer of 2000, hed previously served as producing director of City Theatre in Pittsburgh for 19 years. Masterson left Actors Theatre in 2011 to become director at South Coast Repertory in California. Following an extensive search, Obie Award-winning director Les Waters was named artistic director on November 29,2011. Waters appointment was declared the years most promising out of development by The New York Times. A strong proponent of contemporary work and imaginative adaptations of classic materials, the original home of Actors Theatre was an open loft—the former Egyptian Tea Room—above the Taylor Trunk Company on Fourth Street in downtown Louisville. In 1965, the relocated to the former site of the Illinois Central Railway Station on Seventh Street. The space was transformed by Architect Jasper Ward into a 350-seat theater, in the fall of 1969, the city announced that the train station was to be demolished to make way for a connector highway. In October 1972, the relocated to the newly renovated Old Bank of Louisville building on Main Street. The building that became Actors Theatre was a merging of two buildings, the 1837 James H. Dakin-designed Old Bank of Louisville and the Myers-Thompson Display Building, in 2004 the theater acquired a production studio at 9th and Magnolia Streets in the Old Louisville neighborhood. List of attractions and events in the Louisville metropolitan area Performing arts in Louisville, Kentucky Dixon, associate editors, Thomas D. Clark, Lowell H. Harrison, and James C. Lexington, Kentucky, The University Press of Kentucky, Actors Theatre official website Actors Theatre of Louisville at the Internet Broadway Database
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Trinity Repertory Company
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Trinity Repertory Company is a non-profit regional theater located at 201 Washington Street in Providence, Rhode Island. The theater is a member of the League of Resident Theatres, founded in 1963, the theater is one of the most respected regional theatres in the country. Featuring the last longstanding Resident Acting Company in the U. S, Trinity Rep presents a balance of world premiere, contemporary, and classic works, including an annual production of A Christmas Carol, for an estimated annual audience of 110,000. In its 52-year history, the theater has produced nearly 67 world premieres, mounted national and international tours and, through its MFA program, trained hundreds of new actors and directors. As of 2016, Trinty Reps educational programs serve students in around 60% of Rhode Island schools, its director is Tom Parrish. Trinity Rep was founded when a group of Rhode Island citizens sought to create a professional resident theater company in Providence. Incorporated as The Foundation for Repertory Theater of Rhode Island, Inc. on March 21,1963, the group hired Adrian Hall, at Trinity United Methodist Church, located in Trinity Square, the first production The Hostage by Brendan Behan, opened on March 14,1964. In 1968, Trinity Rep performed at the Edinburgh International Festival in Scotland, the Trinity Rep Conservatory opened in 1977, serving as a training ground for actors. From its roots in Providences Trinity United Methodist Church, Trinity Repertory Company moved in 1973 to its present home the Lederer Theater Center in downtown Providence, the building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places
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Guthrie Theater
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The Guthrie Theater, founded in 1963, is a center for theater performance, production, education, and professional training in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The concept of the theater was born in 1959 in a series of discussions between Sir Tyrone Guthrie, Oliver Rea and Peter Zeisler. Disenchanted with Broadway, they intended to form a theater with a resident acting company, to perform plays in rotating repertory. The Guthrie Theater has performed in two main-stage facilities, the first building was designed by Ralph Rapson, included a 1, 441-seat thrust stage designed by Tanya Moiseiwitsch, and was operated from 1963–2006. After closing its 2005–2006 season, the moved to its current facility designed by Jean Nouvel. In 1982, the won the Regional Theatre Tony Award. In 1959, Sir Tyrone Guthrie published an invitation in the drama page of The New York Times soliciting communities interest. Out of the seven cities that responded, the Twin Cities showed not only interest, with the help of the newly founded Tyrone Guthrie Theater Foundation a fundraising effort raised over US$2 million. The new theater was completed in 1963 in time for the May 7 opening of Hamlet, Tyrone Guthrie served as Artistic Director until 1966 and continued to direct at the theater he founded until 1969, two years before his death. In 1966 Douglas Campbell was named Artistic Director, throughout the 1960s the Guthrie found critical acclaim in its productions of Henry V, St. Joan, Caucasian Chalk Circle, Three Sisters and The House of Atreus. In 1968 the production of The House of Atreus was taken on the road in a tour that was a first for a resident theater. Also starting in 1968, the Guthrie began a tradition of producing plays on smaller stages in the Twin Cities area, including the Crawford-Livingston Theater in St. Paul and The Other Place. In 1971, Michael Langham became artistic director and produced plays including Oedipus Rex, Loves Labours Lost, She Stoops to Conquer. After Langham left in 1977, the Guthrie crossed a milestone of sorts when for the first time it selected an artistic director that was not a collaborator or friend of Tyrone Guthrie. That year Alvin Epstein was selected as director and was the first American to fill that role. In 1980 Liviu Ciulei replaced Epstein, Ciulei was the former artistic director of Teatrul Bulandra in Romania and had a profound influence on the Guthrie. He challenged audiences with his bold theatrical interpretations and his highly contemporary, Ciuleis interest in theater didnt stop at the productions themselves, he was a designer and architect and one of the first things he did was to redesign the theater itself. His changes allowed more flexibility in the stage to allow each production a unique physical presentation
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Oregon Shakespeare Festival
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The Oregon Shakespeare Festival is a regional repertory theatre in Ashland, Oregon, United States. Each year, the festival produces eleven plays on three stages during a season lasts from mid-February to early November. It has completed the complete Shakespeare canon of 37 plays in 1958,1978,1997, the Festival welcomed its millionth visitor in 1971, its 10-millionth in 2001, and its 20-millionth visitor in 2015. A complete list by year and theater is available at the Main article, a season at OSF consists of a wide range of classic and contemporary plays produced in three theatres. Three plays are staged in the outdoor Allen Elizabethan Theatre, three in the Thomas Theatre, and five in the Angus Bowmer Theatre, OSF also provides a broad range of educational programs for middle schools, high schools, college students and theatre professionals. While OSF has produced non-Shakespearean works since 1960, each continues to include three to five Shakespeare plays. Since 2000, there has also been at least one new work each season from playwrights such as Octavio Solis and Robert Schenkkan. The Festival presents 750 to 800 performances of plays in three theaters from February through early November each year, to a total audience of about 410,000 each season. The company of nearly 1400 people consists of about 675 paid staff and 700 volunteers, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival is listed as a Major Festival in the book Shakespeare Festivals Around the World. Originally, it offered Elizabethan music and dancers, from 1966 till 2007, it consisted of three Renaissance-themed shows in rotation inspired by the plays showing in the Allen Elizabethan Theatre. Live music was supplied by the Terra Nova Consort and other guest musicians, in 2008, the Green Show was revamped. The nightly shows now vary widely with such as a dance group from Mexico or India one night, clowns doing ballet on stilts the next. A fire show, juggler, or magician might be seen along with improv, metal, in 1893, the residents of Ashland built a facility to host Chautauqua events. In its heyday, it accommodated audiences of 1,500 for appearances by the likes of John Philip Sousa, in 1917, a new domed structure was built at the site, but it fell into disrepair after the Chautauqua movement died out in the 1920s. Ashland city leaders loaned him a sum not to exceed $400 to present two plays as part of the citys Independence Day celebration, however, they pressed Bowmer to add boxing matches to cover the expected deficit. Bowmer agreed, feeling such an event was in keeping with the bawdiness of Elizabethan theatre. Reserved seats cost $1, with admission of $.50 for adults. Ironically, the profit from the covered the losses the boxing matches incurred
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Old Globe Theatre
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The Old Globe Theatre is a professional theatre company located in Balboa Park in San Diego, California. It produces about 15 plays and musicals annually in summer and winter seasons, the White Theatre also houses the Karen and Donald Cohn Education Center. The Old Globe Theatre was built in 1935, designed by Richard Requa as part of the California Pacific International Exposition, like the original Globe, the theatre was open in the center with a roof over the seating on the sides. During the exposition, it hosted 50-minute versions of Shakespeare plays, at the end of the exposition, the Globe had been received so well that a nonprofit organization called the San Diego Community Theatre was formed to save the temporary structure from demolition. The committee leased the structure from the city, produced full-length plays, in 1939, a young actor and director named Craig Noel was hired as general director. During World War II the U. S. Navy took over all buildings in Balboa Park, the Community Theatre group stayed together, producing one-act plays in various venues around San Diego. When the Globe was returned to use in 1947, Noel returned as general director. In 1949 he launched the Globes summer Shakespeare Festival in partnership with the department at University of San Diego. Since then the Shakespeare festival has presented every summer except 1953. The Globe continued to produce a combination of modern plays along with Shakespeare, in 1981 Jack OBrien was hired as artistic director, while Noel became executive producer. The Cassius Carter Centre Stage, a theater in the round, was added in 1969 in what had been the Falstaff Tavern restaurant and it was rebuilt in 2009 as the Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre. In March 1978, the Globe Theatre was destroyed in a fire. The Globe Theatre was rebuilt and reopened in 1981, in 1984, the festival stage in turn succumbed to arson. It was rebuilt and is now named the Lowell Davies Festival Theatre, the entire three-theatre complex is called the Simon Edison Centre for the Performing Arts. The Globe has grown into an internationally known theatre complex, an influential powerhouse among regional theatres, in 1984 it received the Tony Award for best regional theatre. Shows which originated at the Old Globe have gone on to Broadway to win nine Tony Awards, Old Globe official website Old Globe Theatre at the Internet Broadway Database
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Steppenwolf Theatre Company
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Its name comes from the Hermann Hesse novel. Two years later, the moved to a 211-seat facility at 2851 N. Halsted Street, which was their home until 1991. In 1982, Sam Shepards True West, starring Sinise and John Malkovich, was the first of many Steppenwolf productions to travel to New York City, Steppenwolf is an ensemble theatre founded in 1974 by Gary Sinise, Terry Kinney, and Jeff Perry. In 1988, Steppenwolf presented the premiere of Frank Galatis adaption of The Grapes of Wrath, based on the John Steinbeck novel. In 2000 Steppenwolf presented the premiere of Austin Pendletons Orsons Shadow. In December 2007, Steppenwolf opened a new play written and directed by members at the Imperial Theatre on Broadway. Tracy Letts August, Osage County was hailed by the New York Times as, flat out, no asterisks and without qualifications the most exciting new American play Broadway has seen in years. Directed by ensemble member Anna D. Shapiro and featuring seven members, August. Letts went on to win the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play, August closed on Broadway on Sunday, June 28,2009, after 648 performances and 18 previews. In 2009 Steppenwolf was recognized by The Wall Street Journal as a Top Small Workplace in America, additionally, in 2010 Steppenwolfs apprenticeship program was honored for the second consecutive year as one of the Top 10 Internships in America by leading career website Vault. com. Among its many honors are the Tony Award for Regional Theatre Excellence, Chicago theatre List of museums and cultural institutions in Chicago Steppenwolf Theatre Company official website Steppenwolf Theatre Company at the Internet Broadway Database
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American Repertory Theater
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The American Repertory Theater is a professional not-for-profit theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Over the past thirty years it has garnered many of the nations most distinguished awards, including a Pulitzer Prize, a Tony Award, the A. R. T. is housed in the Loeb Drama Center at Harvard University. Houses the Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University and the Harvard-Radcliffe Drama Club, in 2002 Robert Woodruff replaced founder Robert Brustein as the A. R. T. s Artistic Director. After Woodruffs departure in 2007, Associate Artistic Director Gideon Lester took the reins for 2008-09 season, Paulus, a Harvard alum, is widely known as a director of theater and opera. The appearance of the American Repertory Theater at Harvard in 1979 was a groundbreaking event and it represented the establishment of the only permanent professional arts organization on campus. These are offered and accepted on the assumption that the best teachers in any field are its practitioners. In the 1920s George Pierce Baker gave his celebrated 47 Workshop Playwriting course at Harvard as an elective in the English department, bakers dramatic instruction was effective enough to attract the likes of Eugene ONeill, Philip Barry, and S. N. But when Baker requested a space in which to stage scenes from the plays of his students, a wealthy donor from the Harkness family thereupon offered Harvard what was then the munificent sum of a million dollars to build a theatre and a drama department for Baker. In one of the few such actions in its long history, Baker took the money to Yale where he founded what was soon to be called the Yale School of Drama. The American Repertory Theater came to Harvard from Yale in 1979, in 2008, Diane Paulus became the A. R. T. s Artistic Director. The A. R. T. is the recipient of other awards including the Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theater, the Pulitzer Prize. Its recent premiere production of Death and The Powers, The Robots’ Opera was a 2012 Pulitzer Prize finalist, during its 32-year history, the A. R. T. The A. R. T. has performed throughout the U. S. the A. R. T. is also a training ground for young artists. The Theater’s artistic staff teaches undergraduate classes in acting, directing, dramatic literature, dramaturgy, voice, founded the Institute for AdvancedTheater Training at Harvard University. Graduate program that operates in conjunction with the Moscow Art Theater School, the Institute provides world-class professional training in acting, dramaturgy, since becoming Artistic Director, Diane Paulus has enhanced the A. R. T. Notes from the Field, Doing Time in Education, Created, written, abbey Theatres The Plough and the Stars, written by Seán OCasey. Fingersmith, Based on the novel by Sarah Waters, written by Alexa Junge, trans Scripts, Part I, The Women, Written by Paul Lucas. The Night of the Iguana, Written by ], directed by Michael Wilson and featuring James Earl Jones
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San Francisco Mime Troupe
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The San Francisco Mime Troupe is a theatre of political satire which performs free shows in various parks in the San Francisco Bay Area and around California. The group was awarded the Regional Theatre Award at the 41st Tony Awards, the group was founded in 1959 by R. G. Davis as a medium of expression of his divergent theatrical concepts. The group debuted with Mime and Word and The 11th Hour Mime Show, in the mid-1960s the group started to rely less on the direct Commedia dellArte format and transitioned into a more rambunctious, satirical style. It also began integrating elements of Jazz into its musical composition, the group gained significant notoriety for its free performances in Golden Gate Park and numerous altercations with law enforcement. By the early 1970s, the Troupe had earned a reputation for opposing capitalism, sexism, in the early 70s Mr. Steel Town characterized the plight of steel workers and the decline of steel manufacture in the U. S. For this production, the troupe toured the Midwest, primarily in factory cities, in 1987, the troupes Brechtian style of guerrilla theatre earned them a special Tony Award for Excellence in Regional Theater. As well as the shows, the Mime Troupe also tours nationally and internationally, having performed throughout Europe, Asia, South and Central America. The group also facilitates community workshops and they are a nonprofit making organization. The season traditionally starts on Fourth of July weekend and ends on Labor Day weekend, posters for several of the 1970s productions were designed by Jane Norling, and are accessible through the extensive online archive of the San Francisco Mime Troupe. Living Theater Bread & Puppet Teatro Campesino Political theatre St. Stupids Day Beach Blanket Babylon - another long-running San Francisco theatre satire group Mason, the San Francisco Mime Troupe Reader. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, the San Francisco Mime Troupe, The First Ten Years. Festive Revolutions, The Politics of Popular Theater and the San Francisco Mime Troupe, jackson, MS, University Press of Mississippi. University Library, University of California, Davis
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South Coast Repertory
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South Coast Repertory is a professional theatre company located in Costa Mesa, California. Tony Award-winning South Coast Repertory, founded in 1964 by David Emmes and Martin Benson, is led by Artistic Director Marc Masterson, SCR is widely regarded as one of Americas foremost producers of new plays. SCR also offers a three-play Theatre for Young Audiences series, and year-round programs in education and it also is home to the Pacific Playwrights Festival, an annual three-day new play festival. SCRs extensive new development program consists of commissions, residencies, readings. Among the plays commissioned and introduced at SCR are Donald Margulies Sight Unseen, Collected Stories, Brooklyn Boy, forty percent of the plays SCR has produced have been world, American or West Coast premieres. In 1988, SCR received the Regional Theatre Tony Award for Distinguished Achievement, David Emmes and Martin Benson attended San Francisco State University. After graduation, Emmes and Benson gathered a few San Francisco friends in summer 1963 to stage Arthur Schnitzlers La Ronde at the Off-Broadway Theatre in Long Beach, California. After that experience, Emmes and Benson were convinced there was a future for them in theatre, the first step would involve touring to rented stages. In November 1964, SCRs first production, Molières Tartuffe, opened at the Newport Beach Ebell Club, the next step would be their own location. They chose to locate it in Orange County Calif. virgin territory for an arts institution. For their Second Step, a marine hardware store on Balboa Peninsula was rented and converted into a 75-seat proscenium stage. It opened on March 12,1965, with a production of Waiting for Godot, confident of their ability to continue, Emmes and Benson sought to convince their adopted community of SCRs future importance. While the goal of running a nationally renowned arts institution spurred them on from the Second Step lobby wall, for years, everyone involved maintained full-time day jobs and worked nights and weekends without pay. They designed and built their scenery, sold the tickets, ushered, among the first acting company members were Don Took, Martha McFarland and Art Koustik, joined over the next seasons by Richard Doyle, Hal Landon Jr. and Ron Boussom. These were among the theatres Founding Artists, within two years, artistic and financial momentum had picked up and SCR looked toward its Third Step, a converted Sprouse-Reitz Variety Store on Newport Boulevard in Costa Mesa. The building, adapted to hold 217 seats, opened in 1967 and it was at the Third Step, 1967–1978, that SCR moved from a local group to a regional force, and matured both artistically and organizationally. Operating income went from US$20,000 to US$55,000 in the first two seasons, by the fifth season, paid staff had grown from one to five. A first grant from the National Endowment for the Arts helped expand the staff, the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle gave SCR its first award in 1970 for consistent achievement in production
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Seattle Repertory Theatre
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Seattle Repertory Theatre is a major regional theatre located in Seattle, Washington, at the Seattle Center. It is a member of Theatre Puget Sound and Theatre Communications Group, founded in 1963, it is led by Artistic Director Braden Abraham and Managing Director Jeffrey Herrmann. It received the 1990 Regional Theatre Tony Award, the first home of the Seattle Rep was the Seattle Playhouse, built as part of the fair grounds for the 1962 Century 21 Exposition, Seattles 1962 Worlds Fair. The building, extant as of 2009, was renovated in 1987 as a home for the Intiman Theatre, actor Hal Holbrook had appeared at the Playhouse during the fair, and is believed to be the person who suggested it as a home for a repertory theater company. Seattle businessman and arts patron Bagley Wright and others raised money, stuart Vaughan was the founding artistic director and directed the first production, King Lear, which opened the new companys first season on November 14,1963. The original acting company included Seattle native Marjorie Nelson and an associate member from the University of Washington. Both went on to become mainstays of Pacific Northwest theater, donald Foster came aboard as executive director in 1964. The first summer Theater-in-the-Park production was The Taming of the Shrew, the first Northwest tour included Twelfth Night and Ah, Wilderness. Peter Donnelly joined The Rep on a Ford Foundation grant as a management intern, in 1966, Allen Fletcher became The Reps second artistic director. The Off-Center series focused on contemporary works, the first of Off-Center production, in 1967, featured The Death of Bessie Smith and The American Dream, two one-act plays by Edward Albee. The Rep was invited to the Bergen International Festival in 1968, in 1970, Peter Donnelly became producing director, and W. Duncan Ross became artistic director. In 1972, The Reps artistic role in the state was acknowledged with the Washington State Governors Arts Award and that same year was the beginning of Rep ‘n Rap, a summer tour program featuring Thurbermania. The following year, there was a presentation of Promenade All directed by Hume Cronyn. The 2nd Stage series began a year later with Max Frischs Biography, in 1975, a tour of the western states included Seven Keys to Baldpate by George M. Cohan. Private funding and a bond issue raised $5.8 million for a new theater. The first Mobile Outreach Bunch toured Washington and Idaho schools with The Energy Show, John Hirsch joined as consulting artistic director with Daniel Sullivan as resident director that same year, and Plays-in-Progress, initiated by Daniel Sullivan, began developing new plays. In 1981, Daniel Sullivan became artistic director and the Seattle Repertory Organization held the first Elegant Elephant Sale, an event that continued for nearly two decades. On December 29, ground was broken for the new Bagley Wright Theatre, in 1984, Herb Gardners Im Not Rappaport starring Harold Gould, Cleavon Little and David Strathairn opened prior to its Broadway run
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Yale Repertory Theatre
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In the process it has become one of the first distinguished regional theatres. Located at the edge of Yales main downtown campus, it occupies the former Calvary Baptist Church, some successful works were transferred to commercial theaters. Benjamin Mordecai served as managing director from 1982 to 1993, Victoria Nolan has served in capacity since 1993. Calvary Baptist Church was erected in 1846 in the Gothic revival architectural style on a plot of land that was the home of Richard Platt. Upon redundancy, the church was controlled by Yale University, which was served by a nondenominational chapel. Yale Dramatic Association Official website Yale Repertory Theatre at the Internet Broadway Database
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Goodman Theatre
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The Goodman Theatre is a professional theater company located in Chicagos Loop. A major part of the Chicago theatre scene, it is the citys oldest currently active nonprofit theater organization, part of its present theater complex occupies the landmark Harris and Selwyn Theaters property. The Goodman was founded in 1925 as a tribute to the Chicago playwright Kenneth Sawyer Goodman, the opening ceremony on October 20,1925 featured three of Kenneth Sawyer Goodmans plays, Back of the Yards, The Green Scarf, and The Game of Chess. Two nights later the theater presented its first public performance, John Galsworthys The Forest, in 2000, the company moved into its new building at 170 N. Dearborn in Chicagos theater district. It has two fully modern auditoriums, named the Albert and the Owen, after two members of the Goodman family who continue to be major donors. In August, Associate Artistic Director Michael Maggio died and they renamed the Michael Merritt Award for young designers the Michael Maggio Emerging Designer Award in his honor, in 1992, the theatre company received the Regional Theatre Tony Award, joining Steppenwolf Theatre as Chicago-based recipients of the award. The Goodman has also won many Joseph Jefferson awards, with the production of Radio Golf in 2007, the Goodman became the first theater to mount a production of each of the ten plays in August Wilsons Pittsburgh cycle. The theater has presented A Christmas Carol annually in December since the 1970s, the Light in the Piazza, I Am My Own Wife, and Rabbit Hole. “Chicago’s Goodman Theatre, Plays and Cultural Work in an Institutional Theatre. ”Chicagos Goodman Theatre, thomas Wood Stevens Contributions to American Art Theatre With Emphasis on the Kenneth Sawyer Goodman Memorial Theatre, 1922-1930, PhD dissertation, The Louisiana State University,1973. Official website 20347,77902,73504,77899 Goodman Theatre at the Internet Broadway Database Kenneth Sawyer Goodman Papers and Goodman Family Papers at The Newberry Library
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La Jolla Playhouse
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La Jolla Playhouse is a not-for-profit, professional theatre on the campus of the University of California, San Diego. La Jolla Playhouse was founded in 1947 by Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, in 1983, it was revived under the leadership of Des McAnuff. It is supported, in part, by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the California Arts Council, the City of San Diego, and it was announced on April 10,2007 that Christopher Ashley would succeed McAnuff as Artistic Director. La Jolla Playhouse provides a number of opportunities for children, teens. In addition, the Performance Outreach Program annually brings a professional, world-premiere production to schools, libraries, there are additional summer theater opportunities through the La Jolla Playhouse Conservatory, YP@LJP summer camps, student matinees, and many other in-school workshops and classes. As a Page To Stage workshop, a production will feature sets and costumes. After the performance, audience feedback sessions will provide insight and suggestion for both the team and the actors. In the five years since the program began, two Page To Stage Productions have gone on to win Tony Awards, 1981-1991, Alan Levey 1992-2004, Terry Dwyer 2005-2008, Steven Libman 2009- Current, Michael S
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McCarter Theatre
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McCarter Theatre is a not-for-profit, professional company on the campus of Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey. It is one of the most active centers in the nation, offering over 200 performances of theater, dance, music. Over 200,000 people come to McCarter each season, the theater creates, develops and produces new work for the stage, produces classical theatrical repertoire, and hosts performing artists. One of its stars was Joshua Logan, a junior, during the 1930s, McCarter gained popularity as a pre-Broadway showcase, due to its large seating capacity, its 40-foot proscenium stage, and its short distance from New York. Although not built as a hall, McCarter played host for almost a half-century to the Princeton University Concerts before they moved to Richardson Auditorium. The first dancer was Ruth St. Denis, who appeared in an evening on March 7,1930 and returned that same fall with Ted Shawn. In the post World War II years, Broadway producers cut costs by having extended preview periods in New York City rather than out-of-town try outs, thus, the number of touring Broadway shows declined. In the late 1950s, Princeton University appointed a Faculty Advisory Committee to determine the best use of the building, noted director Milton Lyon was hired in 1960 as consultant to the Faculty Advisory Committee and in time was appointed the first Executive Producer of the McCarter Theatre Company. Lyons vision was to create a theater which should reflect the outlook of the University, and thus become an asset to the University. Lyon proposed to the University that McCarter become a rather than a booking theater. His plans included the formation of a company to perform plays and he instantly formed such a company by hiring APA for the inaugural theater season, 1960-61. Under the artistic direction of Ellis Rabb, actors in the APA company included Rosemary Harris, Donald Moffat, Frances Sternhagen, in 1973, Princeton University transferred its direct operation of McCarter to the McCarter Theatre Company, which was separately incorporated at that time. McCarter commissioned the production and premiered the performance of Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike by Christopher Durang, in 1990s McCarter unwent major renovations and expansions including construction of a smaller second theater adjacent to the main auditorium, allowing two productions to be mounted simultaneously. At the core of McCarter’s programming is the Theater Series, which is built around the commitment to new work and to exploring and re-imagining classic works from the American and world canon. Many, including Having Our Say, Anna in the Tropics, Crowns, Valley Song, the theater series also hosts touring shows that fit into the commitment of the theater, such as Mary Zimmermans The Odyssey. Two of its 2006-2007 productions, Translations and Radio Golf moved to Broadway where they were nominated for Tony Awards
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Goodspeed Musicals
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Goodspeed Musicals is a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation and advancement of musical theater and the creation of new works, located in East Haddam, Connecticut. A distinctive feature of the view from the Connecticut River, the Goodspeed Opera House is the birthplace of some of the worlds most famous musicals, including Annie, Man of La Mancha, the Opera House was originally built by a local merchant and banker, William Goodspeed. Construction began in 1876 and finished in 1877, despite the name, it was not in fact an opera house, but rather a venue for presenting plays. Its first play, Charles II, opened on October 24,1877, the building is unique for a theater. The theater itself is located on the top two floors of the building making for interesting and sometimes difficult scenery and show load-ins. Scenery is loaded-in from the area up a vacant elevator shaft that is now outfitted with a winch system to haul the scenery up to the stage level. Much care has to be taken in order to get the scenery up the shaft without scratching or ruining the scenery, Goodspeed Musicals was formed in 1959 by a group of concerned citizens after the state of Connecticut had condemned the building. The state agreed to sell the building to the group for one dollar, provided they acquire enough funding to restore, the restoration project took nearly four years, and the Goodspeed Opera House was rededicated on June 8,1963. The first performance in the new house was Oh, Lady. Under the direction of Michael P. Price since 1968, Goodspeed Musicals has sent 19 productions to Broadway, in 1984, Goodspeed Musicals added a second performance venue—the Norma Terris Theatre—in nearby Chester, Connecticut. While the main stage presents a mixture of revivals and new musicals as part of its 3 production season, several original plays debuted there or at the opera house before going on to Broadway and winning Tony Awards. Goodspeed Musicals has also built state-of-the-art production facilities including shops, costume shops. Critic fellows from the Eugene ONeill Theater Center in Waterford, CT travel to the Goodspeed each summer to practice reviewing full productions, tours of many of the Goodspeed facilities can be scheduled in advance for a small fee. Tickets to the house or theatre productions should be ordered in advance as most performances in the relatively small theater sell-out quickly
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Alley Theatre
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Not to be confused with the Alley Theatre in Northern Ireland. The Alley Theatre is a Tony Award-winning indoor theatre in Downtown Houston, Texas, the Hubbard is the main stage with seating for 774, the more intimate Neuhaus seats 310. Nine towers and open-air terraces give the Alley Theatre a castle-like quality, inside, a staircase spirals from the entrance vestibule to the second-floor lobby. A wide variety of plays have been performed in this theater, the Alley Theatre is one of the three oldest resident theatres in the United States. Under the leadership of Nina Eloise Whittington Vance, the Alley Theatre first started in a dance studio with an opening on Main Street. A brick corridor led from Main to the back of the studio, hence the name Alley Theatre. ”In 1948, early paying members scouted Houston for a new location for the Alley, finally landing on an abandoned fan factory on Berry Avenue. The Alley re-opened on February 8,1949, with a production of Lillian Helman’s The Children’s Hour, in 1954, Ms. Vance brought in Albert Dekker to ‘guest-star’ in Death of a Salesman. The Alley then became a fully professional/Equity company, the Alley Theatre was invited by the United States State Department to represent the American Regional Theatre at the Brussels World’s Fair in 1958. In 1962, the Houston Endowment gifted land worth $800,000, in the summer of 1963, the theatre raised more than $900,000 from Houstonians. These funds helped the theatre grow from its modest beginnings into one of the most prestigious non-profit resident theatres in the United States. Paul Zindels The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds was staged at the Alley in 1964, in 1996, the Alley Theatre won the Regional Theatre Tony Award and has toured 40 American cities and abroad. And is regarded as “one of the most respected resident companies in the country and this marked the first time a Russian had been invited to the U. S. to recreate a play precisely as it appeared in the Soviet Union. The Alley is currently led by Artistic Director Gregory Boyd and Managing Director Dean R. Gladden, the opening of the new home of the Alley Theatre in November 1968 was a nationally chronicled event. It has two stages – the Hubbard Stage, which has 824 seats, and the more intimate Neuhaus Stage, which has 310 seats. The Alley’s building at 615 Texas Ave. was designed by Ulrich Franzen, who, along with Ms. Vance, wanted to create “a building that sings from any viewpoint. ”The theatre building has no right angles but does have wide bands and terraces and is “reminiscent of Frank Lloyd Wright’s buildings. ”Franzen selected the concrete exterior because he was inspired by Houston’s location and the warm weather of the Southwest. There are three triangles in the building and “the curves cling to and move around the triangles. ”Franzen designed the Alley in what is known as the Brutalist style that was popular from the 1950s through the mid-1970s. The term “brutalism” was coined in 1953 and comes from the French béton brut meaning raw concrete. ”Concrete is the material most widely associated with Brutalist architecture. Of the Brutalist theatres built in the 1960s, including the Vivian Beaumont at Lincoln Center, in 1994, the Alley Theatre was chosen to receive the Twenty-Five Year Award by the American Institute of Architects/Houston, which recognizes distinguished architecture of lasting quality
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Berkeley Repertory Theatre
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Berkeley Repertory Theatre is a regional theater company located in Berkeley, California. It runs seven productions each season from its two stages in Downtown Berkeley, the company was founded in 1968, as the East Bays first resident professional theatre. Michael Leibert was the artistic director, who was then succeeded by Sharon Ott in 1984. The company won the Regional Theatre Tony Award in 1997, the theater added the 600-seat proscenium Roda Theatre next door to its existing 400-seat asymmetrical thrust stage in 2001, as well as opening its Berkeley Rep School of Theatre the same year. Its current artistic director is Tony Taccone who has been the director since 1997. Managing Director Susan Medak is the current president of the League of Resident Theatres and that summer, Sarah Ruhls Eurydice and Stews Passing Strange both enjoyed extended off-Broadway runs. Passing Strange opened on Broadway in March 2008, Berkeley Rep bolsters its commitment to new works through The Ground Floor and year-long Fellowship Program aimed at training the next generation of theatre professionals. In 2001, the theatre opened Berkeley Rep School of Theatre, located next door to Berkeley Reps two stages, the School of Theatre also provides a home base for the companys outreach education programs with local teachers and classes. The Berkeley Rep School of Theatre also has a Teen Council made for bay area high school students interested in theatre, the Berkeley Rep Teen Council is most noted for its annual Target Teen One Acts Festival, completely written, directed, produced, and acted by students. Recently, the theatre opened their 2009-10 season with the first stage production of Green Days 2004 rock opera American Idiot, the hugely popular show was originally scheduled to run from September 4 through October 11, but was extended twice, finally ending on November 15,2009. The show subsequently opened on Broadway at the St. James Theatre on April 20,2010
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Denver Center for the Performing Arts
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It was founded in 1972 and dedicated to excellence in the arts. The Denver Center for the Performing Arts is the largest tenant of the Denver Performing Arts Complex which is a four-block and it is owned and partially operated by Arts and Venues Denver. Both organizations were the vision of Donald Seawell, finding himself at 14th and Curtis streets in downtown Denver one day and looking at the old Auditorium Theatre and the surrounding four blocks, Seawell had an idea for a first-class arts complex. Seawells original vision was much broader and included other entities which no longer are part of the Center, ground was broken in December 1974. By 1978 Boettcher Concert Hall — the nations first in-the-round concert hall — was completed, along with an eight-story,1, 700-space parking garage. By 1979 the Auditorium Theatre had been renovated, two cabaret spaces had been added and the Helen G. Bonfils Theatre Complex opened with its four theatres, The Stage, Space, Source and Ricketson. The Temple Hoyne Buell Theatre was completed in 1991, the Seawell Grand Ballroom was added in 1998, the Denver Center for the Performing Arts is currently the largest tenant of the Denver Performing Arts Complex. Under the leadership of Edward Payson Call, Donovan Marley and Kent Thompson, in acknowledgment of this work, the DCTC received the 1998 Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre. Stage director Israel Hicks took on the challenge posed by Donovan Marley, Denver Center Attractions was created by Robert Garner, presenter of national touring companies since 1961, and joined the Center in 1979. When Garner retired in 1992, his successor was Randy Weeks. Center Attractions presents Broadway touring shows and its attendance record has made Denver a pick city. The NTC will be phased out by 2012, the Denver Center Theatre Academy was added in 1991 as a community school for children and adults in a professional setting. The Seawell Grand Ballroom is a 10, 000-square-foot facility with a capacity of 1,029 people. Epicurean Culinary Group is the caterer for the Ballroom. Previous Entities which have left the DCPA include Denver Center Media. DCM productions have been broadcast nationally on PBS, cable and overseas networks, productions include Top of the World, Colcannon, The Moscow String Quartet, At Play in America, Coors Field, Home at Last, Pamoja, A Coming Together and Memory of a Large Christmas. The Gould Voice Center was founded in 1983 and headed, until his death in 1994, by the noted otolaryngologist Dr. Wilbur James Gould and it was the only such facility in the world that is part of a performing arts organization. While these entities, along with the entities, were at the DCPA
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U.S. state
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A U. S. state is a constituent political entity of the United States of America. There are 50 states, which are together in a union with each other. Each state holds administrative jurisdiction over a geographic territory. Due to the shared sovereignty between each state and the government, Americans are citizens of both the federal republic and of the state in which they reside. State citizenship and residency are flexible, and no government approval is required to move between states, except for persons covered by certain types of court orders. States range in population from just under 600,000 to over 39 million, four states use the term commonwealth rather than state in their full official names. States are divided into counties or county-equivalents, which may be assigned some local authority but are not sovereign. County or county-equivalent structure varies widely by state, State governments are allocated power by the people through their individual constitutions. All are grounded in principles, and each provides for a government. States possess a number of powers and rights under the United States Constitution, Constitution has been amended, and the interpretation and application of its provisions have changed. The general tendency has been toward centralization and incorporation, with the government playing a much larger role than it once did. There is a debate over states rights, which concerns the extent and nature of the states powers and sovereignty in relation to the federal government. States and their residents are represented in the federal Congress, a legislature consisting of the Senate. Each state is represented in the Senate by two senators, and is guaranteed at least one Representative in the House, members of the House are elected from single-member districts. Representatives are distributed among the states in proportion to the most recent constitutionally mandated decennial census, the Constitution grants to Congress the authority to admit new states into the Union. Since the establishment of the United States in 1776, the number of states has expanded from the original 13 to 50, alaska and Hawaii are the most recent states admitted, both in 1959. The Constitution is silent on the question of states have the power to secede from the Union. Shortly after the Civil War, the U. S. Supreme Court, in Texas v. White, as a result, while the governments of the various states share many similar features, they often vary greatly with regard to form and substance
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Utah
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Utah is a state in the western United States. It became the 45th state admitted to the U. S. on January 4,1896, Utah is the 13th-largest by area, 31st-most-populous, and 10th-least-densely populated of the 50 United States. Utah has a population of more than 3 million, approximately 80% of whom live along the Wasatch Front, Utah is bordered by Colorado to the east, Wyoming to the northeast, Idaho to the north, Arizona to the south, and Nevada to the west. It also touches a corner of New Mexico in the southeast, approximately 62% of Utahns are reported to be members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints or LDS, which greatly influences Utahn culture and daily life. The LDS Churchs world headquarters is located in Salt Lake City, Utah is the only state with a majority population belonging to a single church. The state is a center of transportation, education, information technology and research, government services, mining, in 2013, the U. S. Census Bureau estimated that Utah had the second fastest-growing population of any state. St. George was the metropolitan area in the United States from 2000 to 2005. Utah also has the 14th highest median income and the least income inequality of any U. S. state. A2012 Gallup national survey found Utah overall to be the best state to live in based on 13 forward-looking measurements including various economic, lifestyle, the name Utah is derived from the name of the Ute tribe. It means people of the mountains in the Ute language, according to other sources Utah is derived from the Apache name Yudah which means Tall. These Native American tribes are subgroups of the Ute-Aztec Native American ethnicity and were sedentary, the Ancestral Pueblo people built their homes through excavations in mountains, and the Fremont people built houses of straw before disappearing from the region around the 15th century. Another group of Native Americans, the Navajo, settled in the region around the 18th century, in the mid-18th century, other Uto-Aztecan tribes, including the Goshute, the Paiute, the Shoshone, and the Ute people, also settled in the region. These five groups were present when the first European explorers arrived, the southern Utah region was explored by the Spanish in 1540, led by Francisco Vásquez de Coronado, while looking for the legendary Cíbola. A group led by two Catholic priests—sometimes called the Dominguez-Escalante Expedition—left Santa Fe in 1776, hoping to find a route to the coast of California, the expedition traveled as far north as Utah Lake and encountered the native residents. The Spanish made further explorations in the region, but were not interested in colonizing the area because of its desert nature, in 1821, the year Mexico achieved its independence from Spain, the region became known as part of its territory of Alta California. European trappers and fur traders explored some areas of Utah in the early 19th century from Canada, the city of Provo, Utah was named for one, Étienne Provost, who visited the area in 1825. The city of Ogden, Utah was named after Peter Skene Ogden, in late 1824, Jim Bridger became the first known English-speaking person to sight the Great Salt Lake. Due to the salinity of its waters, Bridger thought he had found the Pacific Ocean
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Salt Lake City
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Salt Lake City, often shortened to Salt Lake or SLC, is the capital and the most populous municipality of the U. S. state of Utah. With an estimated population of 190,884 in 2014, the city lies at the core of the Salt Lake City metropolitan area, Salt Lake City is further situated within a larger metropolis known as the Salt Lake City-Ogden-Provo Combined Statistical Area. This region is a corridor of contiguous urban and suburban development stretched along an approximately 120-mile segment of the Wasatch Front and it is one of only two major urban areas in the Great Basin. The city was founded in 1847 by Brigham Young, Isaac Morley, George Washington Bradley and numerous other Mormon followers, who extensively irrigated and cultivated the arid valley. Due to its proximity to the Great Salt Lake, the city was originally named Great Salt Lake City—the word great was dropped from the name in 1868 by the 17th Utah Territorial Legislature. Today, however, less than half the population of Salt Lake City proper are members of the LDS Church. It was traversed by the Lincoln Highway, the first transcontinental highway, in 1913, Salt Lake City has since developed a strong outdoor recreation tourist industry based primarily on skiing, and hosted the 2002 Winter Olympics. It is the banking center of the United States. Before Mormon settlement, the Shoshone, Ute, and Paiute had dwelt in the Salt Lake Valley for thousands of years. The land was treated by the United States as public domain, the first U. S. explorer in the Salt Lake area is believed to be Jim Bridger in 1825, although others had been in Utah earlier, some as far north as the nearby Utah Valley. Frémont surveyed the Great Salt Lake and the Salt Lake Valley in 1843 and 1845, the Donner Party, a group of ill-fated pioneers, had traveled through the Great Salt Lake Valley in August 1846. The first permanent settlements in the date to the arrival of the Latter-day Saints on July 24,1847. Upon arrival at the Salt Lake Valley, president of the church Brigham Young is recorded as stating, This is the right place, Brigham Young claimed to have seen the area in a vision prior to the wagon trains arrival. They found the broad valley empty of any human settlement, four days after arriving in the Salt Lake Valley, Brigham Young designated the building site for the Salt Lake Temple, which would eventually become a famous Mormon and Salt Lake City landmark. The Salt Lake Temple, constructed on the block that would later be called Temple Square, construction started in 1853, and the temple was dedicated on 6 April 1893. The temple has become an icon for the city and serves as its centerpiece, in fact, the southeast corner of Temple Square is the initial point of reference for the Salt Lake Meridian, and for all addresses in the Salt Lake Valley. The Mormon pioneers organized a new state called Deseret and petitioned for its recognition in 1849, the United States Congress rebuffed the settlers in 1850 and established the Utah Territory, vastly reducing its size, and designated Fillmore as its capital city. Great Salt Lake City replaced Fillmore as the capital in 1858
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Flag of Utah
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The flag of the state of Utah was adopted in February 2011 and consists of the seal of Utah encircled in a golden circle on a background of dark navy blue. It replaced a flag that had been in use since 1913. A bald eagle, the bird of the United States, symbolizes protection in peace. The sego lily, the flower of Utah, represents peace. The state motto Industry and the beehive represent progress and hard work, the U. S. flags show Utahs support and commitment to the United States. The state name Utah appears below the beehive, the date 1847 represents the year the Mormon pioneers entered the Salt Lake Valley, while 1896 represents the year that Utah was admitted as the 45th state to the Union. Thus it became the state flower, the eagle and flanking flags are also important symbols - Utahs is one of the few state flags to carry the American flag as part of the design. This is because the Mormon settlers were not to be loyal to the United States - one of the reasons statehood was not granted to Utah until nearly 40 years after the original settlements. In 2001, the North American Vexillological Association surveyed its members on the designs of all 72 U. S. state, U. S. territorial, Utahs flag was ranked 58th out of the 72 flags. The flags basic design uses the Seal of Utah which was adopted by the legislature on April 3,1896. The seal was designed by artist Harry Edwards, and has similarities with the seal of the Utah Territory, the states first flag was created in March 1903 to be used at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri. Heber M. Wells, the governor of Utah, asked the Utah State Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution to oversee the creation of a flag. On May 1,1903, the governor and his delegation marched, under the new flag, the flag was blue, with the state seal and the year 1896 hand-embroidered in white thread in the flags center. Initially this flag was known as the Governors Flag until Senate Joint Resolution 17 was passed by the legislature on March 9,1911, making it the official state flag. In 1912, the Sons and Daughters of Utah Pioneers ordered a custom made copy of the adopted flag to be presented to the battleship USS Utah. When the flag arrived, the discovered that the shield on the flag was in full color instead of white. Rather than have the flag remade, Annie Wells Cannon introduced HJR1 and the Utah legislature changed the law to allow the changes found on the 1913 version to become part of the official flag. Prior to being received by the Ship on June 25,1913, during the 59th state legislative session in 2011, a Concurrent Resolution was adopted requiring flag makers to fix a mistake found on all current Utah state flags
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History of Utah
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The History of Utah is an examination of the human history and social activity within the state of Utah located in the western United States. Archaeological evidence dates the earliest habitation of Native Americans in Utah to about 10,000 to 12,000 years ago, paleolithic people lived near the Great Basins swamps and marshes, which had an abundance of fish, birds, and small game animals. Big game, including bison, mammoths and ground sloths, also were attracted to water sources. Over the centuries, the d, this population was replaced by the Desert Archaic people. Relying more on gathering than the previous Utah residents, their diet was composed of cattails and other salt tolerant plants such as pickleweed, burro weed. Red meat appears to have more of a luxury, although these people used nets. Artifacts include nets woven with plant fibers and rabbit skin, woven sandals, gaming sticks, about 3,500 years ago, lake levels rose and the population of Desert Archaic people appears to have dramatically decreased. The Great Basin may have been almost unoccupied for 1,000 years, the Fremont culture, named from sites near the Fremont River in Utah, lived in what is now north and western Utah and parts of Nevada, Idaho and Colorado from approximately 600 to 1300 AD. These people lived in close to water sources that had been previously occupied by the Desert Archaic people. However, their use of new technologies define them as a distinct people, the ancient Puebloan culture, also known as the Anasazi, occupied territory adjacent to the Fremont. The ancestral Puebloan culture centered on the present-day Four Corners area of the Southwest United States, archaeologists debate when this distinct culture emerged, but cultural development seems to date from about the common era, about 500 years before the Fremont appeared. It is generally accepted that the peak of these people was around the 1200 CE. Ancient Puebloan culture is known for well constructed pithouses and more elaborate adobe and they were excellent craftsmen, producing turquoise jewelry and fine pottery. The Puebloan culture was based on agriculture, and the created and cultivated fields of maize, beans. They designed and produced elaborate field terracing and irrigation systems and they also built structures, some known as kivas, apparently designed solely for cultural and religious rituals. These two later cultures were contemporaneous, and appear to have established trading relationships. They also shared enough cultural traits that archaeologists believe the cultures may have roots in the early American Southwest. However, each remained culturally distinct throughout most of their history and these two well established cultures appear to have been severely impacted by climatic change and perhaps by the incursion of new people in about 1200 CE
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Utah State Fair
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The Utah State Fair is held at the Utah State Fairpark in Salt Lake City. The fairgrounds are listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the fair takes place each year starting on the first Thursday after Labor Day and lasts for 11 days. Every year the State Fair hosts musical guests and other entertainers during the Fair, from the Grandstand Line-Up to the demolition derby, truck pull and PRCA Rodeo. The Fair offers mostly free entertainment with a few of the concerts at a price. The Fairs Grandstand represents the best in entertainment for the Fair, visit utahstatefair. com/concerts for more information on performers, times and ticket information. *Most shows are free and only need a seating ticket, free with the gate admission the State Fair has entertainment on the grounds. This year the entertainment will feature, Paul Bunyan Lumberjack Show, The Great American Duck Race, Wizards Challenge, Randy Cabral, Freddy Fusion, during the 1700 and early 1800s trappers and other frontiersmen passed through the Salt Lake Valley of what is today Utah. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, had established in 1830 by Joseph Smith in New York. Due to religious persecution, the group moved further and further west, the Salt Lake Valley met their desires. Yet the trials and difficulties would be great, in July,1847, the first pioneers reached the Salt Lake Valley. Although the land poised many challenges, this was a situation for the pioneers. Due to the isolation of the territory, for the pioneers to survive it was imperative that they become self-sufficient, thus, the major goal of agricultural policy in pioneer Utah was complete self-sufficiency and independence. The major instrument for implementing this policy was the Deseret Agricultural and Manufacturing Society, Society staff consisted of six men who were elected in the first instance by the joint vote of the State Legislative Assembly. These men of foresight and vision gave their service without any compensation other than the joy of public service. The first President of the Society was The Presiding Bishop of the LDS Church, as one way of doing this, the Society sponsored an annual exposition in Salt Lake City, The Deseret Fair. Later in 1909 the Deseret Store and Tithing Office and the Deseret News printing plant were moved to accommodate the construction of the Hotel Utah, the basement of the Deseret Store, displayed agriculture products including, large hens from Lands End England. Pride in excellence of exhibits must have been the reward of the early exhibitors for most of the cash awards were from.50 to $3. And diplomas were the only awarded in many instances
