These Plays Are Now in the Public Domain. Theatres Should Take Advantage
by Chris Peterson
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Books by Noël Coward (Private lives coming pretty soon) at PG:
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Every January, more plays enter the public domain, giving theatres more opportunities to rediscover and reimagine great work without licensing fees.Christopher Peterson (OnStage Blog)
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27.02.2026, 20 Uhr - LIVE
Robert Schumann
Manfred-Ouvertüre op. 115
Johannes Brahms
Konzert a-Moll für Violine, Violoncello und Orchester op. 102
Peter Tschaikowsky
Sinfonie Nr. 4 f-Moll op. 36
Sarang Seohyun Kim, Violine
Daniel Müller-Schott, Violoncello
WDR Sinfonieorchester
Andris Poga, Leitung
@Pierrette ?
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Peter Tschaikowskys Vierte fasziniert durch ihre aufwühlende Tonsprache. Die Sinfonie erzählt aber auch von einem bewegten Künstlerleben, denn die Biografie ...ARD Klassik (YouTube)
Bird Grove review – George Eliot’s true story embellished in a tender drama
Elizabeth Dulau is terrific in Alexi Kaye Campbell’s new play as the young woman set to become a daring pioneer in fiction and real life
by Arifa Akbar
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George Eliot at PG:
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#Theatre for #Dialogue
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Ende dieses Jahres wird Dialogprozess ausgeschrieben. Bewerben können sich kommunale Akteure sowie andere institutionalisierte Organisationen, die konflikthafte Themen mithilfe theaterbasierter Dialogformate bearbeiten möchten. Die Umsetzung des Prozesses ist für 2026 vorgesehen.
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Theatre for Dialogue ist ein Projekt von Stadt.Raum.Gestalten e.V. in Kooperation mit dem Forumtheater Leipzig e.V.. Weitere Infos gibt es unter: https://sta...Stadt.Raum.Gestalten e.V. (YouTube)
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24.10.2025, 20:00 Uhr
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Live
Blagoje Bersa:
Sonnige Felder (Sunny Fields)
Peter Tschaikowsky:
1. Klavierkonzert b-Moll op. 23
Peter Tschaikowsky:
Capriccio italien op. 45
Ottorino Respighi:
Pini di Roma
hr-Sinfonieorchester – Frankfurt Radio Symphony
Alexander Malofeev, Klavier
Ivan Repušić, Dirigent
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Blagoje Bersa: Sonnige Felder (Sunny Fields)Peter Tschaikowsky:1. Klavierkonzert b-Moll op. 23Peter Tschaikowsky: Capriccio italien op. 45Ottorino Respighi: ...hr-Sinfonieorchester – Frankfurt Radio Symphony (YouTube)
The young Oscar Wilde’s Russian revolutionary drama reveals a playwright divided
Vera; or, The Nihilists concerns a plot to kill a tsar but after Alexander II was assassinated, its London premiere was cancelled. Now receiving a rare production, it captures his conflict between ethics and aesthetics
By Michael Billington
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Sasha Waltz: Bachs Johannes-Passion
Tänzerinnen und Tänzern von Sasha Waltz & Guests
Solistinnen und Solisten Valerio Contaldo
Leonardo García Alarcón
Cappella Mediterranea
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Im Frühjahr 2024 widmete sich Sasha Waltz mit der "Johannes-Passion" (BWV 245) von Johann Sebastian Bach erstmals einem herausragenden sakralen Werk der Musikgeschichte. Zum 300.ARTE
#OTD in 1860.
The Irish melodrama The Colleen Bawn, or The Brides of Garryowen, written by and starring Dion Boucicault, is first performed at Miss Laura Keene's theatre, New York. It was most recently performed in Dublin (2010) and in Belfast (2018). Several film versions have also been made.
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"The strong man is strongest when alone."
Tell, Act I, sc. iii
#OTD in 1804.
The first performance of Friedrich Schiller's play Wilhelm Tell takes place at Weimar under the direction of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
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#OTD in 1889.
August Strindberg's naturalistic drama Miss Julie (Fröken Julie), 1888, is first performed, by the Scandinavian Experimental Theater at the University of Copenhagen. His wife Siri von Essen plays the title rôle.
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#OTD in 1854.
An adaptation of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice into Bengali, Bhānumatī-chittavilās by Hara Chandra Ghosh, is staged; also, Dinabandhu Mitra introduces Falstaff in Nabin Tapaswini.
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"Hvad skal manden være? Sig selv, det er mit korte svar."
"What ought a man to be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’."
Act IV
#OTD in 1876.
The stage première of the verse-play Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen (published 1867) with incidental music by Edvard Grieg, takes place in Christiania, Norway.
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#OTD in 1825.
Franz Grillparzer's König Ottokars Glück und Ende (The Fortune and Fall of King Ottokar, published 1823) is first performed, at the Burgtheater in Vienna, after Caroline Augusta, Empress of Austria, urges her husband Francis I of Austria to lift the censorship restrictions on it.
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#OTD in 1857.
The play Demetrius, left unfinished at Schiller's death in 1805, is premiered at the Hoftheater in Weimar. It is based on the life of Demetrius, briefly Russian czar between 1604 and 1605.
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#OTD in 1889.
Henrik Ibsen's symbolic drama The Lady from the Sea (1888) receives simultaneous first performances in Oslo (in Norwegian) and Weimar (in German). The drama introduces the character of Hilde Wangel who is again portrayed in Ibsen's later play The Master Builder.
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#OTD in 1844.
The first three of many theatrical adaptations of A Christmas Carol open in London.
An early theatrical production was A Christmas Carol: Or, the Miser's Warning!, a two-act adaptation of A Christmas Carol by C. Z. Barnett, first produced at the Surrey Theatre on 5 February 1844, just weeks after the publication of the novella.
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#OTD in 1914.
A staging of George A. Birmingham's comedy General John Regan at Westport Town Hall in Ireland provokes a riot, as the crowd objected to the depiction of what they felt was a mocking representation of their town (where the writer served as an Anglican clergyman).
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#OTD in 1924.
A largely rewritten version of Roi Cooper Megrue and Walter C. Hackett's 1914 farce It Pays to Advertise opens in a production by actor-manager Tom Walls, at the Aldwych Theatre in London. It runs until 10 July 1925, a total of 598 performances, as the first in a sequence of twelve Aldwych farces.
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#OTD in 1891.
Henrik Ibsen's play Hedda Gabler published in 1890 is first performed, at the Königliches Residenz-Theater in Munich, the city where it was written. The lead is played by Clara Heese, but Ibsen is displeased with her performance. The first British performance is on April 20 at the recently reopened Vaudeville Theatre, London, with Elizabeth Robins as Hedda and co-directing.
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"What dazzles, for the Moment spends its spirit:
What's genuine, shall Posterity inherit."
#OTD in 1829.
The first complete performance of Goethe's Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy (1808), adapted by August Klingemann, in Braunschweig.
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#OTD in 1912.
Konstantin Stanislavski and Edward Gordon Craig's seminal symbolist Moscow Art Theater production of Hamlet opens.
The most famous aspect of the production is Craig's use of a single, plain set that varied from scene to scene by means of large, abstract screens that altered the size and shape of the acting area.
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#OTD in 1892.
George Bernard Shaw's first play Widowers' Houses has its first performance, at the Royalty Theatre in London under the auspices of the Independent Theatre Society. The author is booed.
This is one of three plays Shaw published as Plays Unpleasant in 1898. The other plays in the group are The Philanderer and Mrs. Warren's Profession.
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#OTD in 1919.
The Großes Schauspielhaus opens as a theater in Berlin, with an interior designed by Hans Poelzig. It begins with the director Max Reinhardt's production of the Oresteia.
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#OTD in 1900.
August Strindberg's To Damascus (Till Damaskus, first two parts) receives its première at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm with August Palme and Harriet Bosse, Strindberg's future wife, in the leading rôles.
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"The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom — these are the pillars of society."
#OTD in 1877.
Henrik Ibsen's first contemporary realist drama The Pillars of Society is premièred at the Odense Teater.
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#OTD in 1906.
Max Reinhardt inaugurates the Kammerspiele series of new plays at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin, with a production of Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen, designed by Edvard Munch.
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"A good man with a good conscience doesn’t walk so fast."
#OTD in 1913.
Georg Büchner's play Woyzeck, unfinished on his death in 1837, receives its first performance at the Residenztheater, Munich.
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#OTD in 1902.
J. M. Barrie's comedy The Admirable Crichton is first performed, at the Duke of York's Theatre in London, starring H. B. Irving, Henry Kemble and Irene Vanbrugh.
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In November 1904.
Hall Caine's novel The Prodigal Son is published by Heinemann in London and opens in a dramatic adaptation at the Grand Theatre, Douglas, Isle of Man.
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#OTD in 1798.
Elizabeth Inchbald's Lovers' Vows (adapted from Kotzebue's Das Kind der Liebe – 1780; literally "Love Child," or "Natural Son," as it is often translated) is first performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London.
It was likewise successful as a print publication, though it also aroused controversy about its "levelling" politics and moral ambiguity.
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#OTD in 1870.
The first performance of Alexander Pushkin's play Boris Godunov (1825) is given at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg by members of the Alexandrinsky Theatre.
It was written in 1825, published in 1831, but not approved for performance by the censor until 1866. It consists of 25 scenes and is mainly written in blank verse.
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#OTD in 1895.
The stage version of Trilby by Paul M. Potter, based on the 1894 novel by George du Maurier, has its UK première at the Theatre Royal, Manchester, with a London première on October 30 at the Haymarket Theatre), with Herbert Beerbohm Tree and Dorothea Baird. The play is so successful that Tree can use the profits to build Her Majesty's Theatre. It also popularises the trilby hat.
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#OTD in 1920.
The Salzburg Festival in Austria is inaugurated with a performance of Hugo von Hofmannsthal's play Jedermann (Everyman, 1911) in front of Salzburg Cathedral, directed by Max Reinhardt.
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"The time is out of joint: O cursed spite,
That ever I was born to set it right!"
Hamlet, Act I, scene v.
#OTD in 1759.
The earliest known professional performance of Shakespeare's Hamlet in North America (in Garrick's version) is given by the American Company in Philadelphia, with Lewis Hallam Jr. as Hamlet.
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#OTD in 1598.
William Shakespeare's play, The Merchant of Venice (under the title "the Marchaunt of Venyce or otherwise called the Jewe of Venyce") is entered on the Stationers' Register. By decree of Queen Elizabeth, the Stationers' Register licensed printed works, giving the Crown tight control over all published material.
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Freitag, 28.06.2024
18:30 bis 21:00 Uhr
BR-KLASSIK
György Ligeti: "Le Grand Macabre"
Bayerisches Staatsorchester
Leitung: Kent Nagano
Premiere live im Radio
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"Cigales, mes sœurs,
Qu'importe à nos cœurs
La richesse des granges pleines?
Pourvu que nos voix
Sonnent par les bois
Quand midi flambe sur les plaines?
...
Par les froids hivers
Nous n'allons pas vers
Ceux qui n'ont pas la voix ou l'aile;
Dès qu'a fui l'été,
Nous avons été...
Mais notre gloire est immortelle."
Chanson des cigales
~Jean François Victor Aicard (4 February 1848 – 13 May 1921)
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French poet, dramatist, and novelist Jean Aicard died #OTD in 1921.
He was associated with the Parnassian movement, which emphasized formalism, craftsmanship, and the use of classical mythology and historical themes in poetry. He was also a prolific playwright and novelist. One of Aicard's most famous works is the novel "Le Roi de Camargue" (The King of Camargue), was published in 1872.
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