A discerning analysis of the life of the Alsatian waif Rachel Felix, who dominated French theater and much of French society in the mid-19th century.

They sing their own stories with humor, drama and emotion, but minus the politicizing that has dominated much such theater.

He said that he and the elder Mr. Prince had frequently remarked that they "got in under the wire," before pop music came to dominate the cultural landscape and musical theater became marginalized.

Mr. Stein grew to dominate German theater, enjoying a reputation not known since the days of Reinhardt.

Like Hamlet's instructions to the players, Ostrovsky's actress is giving advice that Stanislavsky would expand on in developing his method of acting that would dominate 20th-century theater.

Andrew Lloyd Webber, the composer who has dominated musical theater with "Evita," "Cats," "Phantom of the Opera" and other blockbusters, withdrew today from his other highly successful arena - the London stock market.

They had quarrelled (and settled) several times over rights to plays, and Mogulescu and his partner Moishe "Maurice" Finkel now dominated Yiddish theater in Romania, with about ten lesser companies competing as well.

By making this film about Banai, it was as if Loevy had captured the artistic pulse of an entire generation that had dominated Israeli theater.

In contrast to all the leggy chorus-line shows that dominated musical theater in that era, the majestic songs of "Oklahoma!"

By broadly disseminating the acting theories of Konstantin Stanislavsky in America, through its actor training programs, the Group created an ever-expanding pool of professionals that has dominated theater and film for more than five decades.