#5363, aired 2007-12-26 | THEATRE AROUND THE WORLD $400: The musical "Les Mis" didn't debut on Broadway but in this city, its setting Paris |
#5363, aired 2007-12-26 | THEATRE AROUND THE WORLD $800: He directed a landmark Chinese production of his play "Death of a Salesman" at the People's Art Theatre in Beijing Arthur Miller |
#5363, aired 2007-12-26 | THEATRE AROUND THE WORLD $1200: A Dutch TV reality show picked the muscular "swinger" for the European run of this Disney musical Tarzan |
#5363, aired 2007-12-26 | THEATRE AROUND THE WORLD $2000: If you get to put "RSC" on your resume, you were part of this British troupe the Royal Shakespeare Company |
#5363, aired 2007-12-26 | THEATRE AROUND THE WORLD $2,500 (Daily Double): There's a "method" behind his founding of the Moscow Art Theatre with Nemirovich-Danchenko (Constantin) Stanislavski |
#4108, aired 2002-06-12 | WORLD THEATRE $400: "Kremlin Chimes" is the second play in Nikolai Pogodin's trilogy about this leader of the Russian Revolution Lenin |
#4108, aired 2002-06-12 | WORLD THEATRE $800: This Canadian province's famous Shaw Festival focuses on plays by George Bernard Shaw & his contemporaries Ontario |
#4108, aired 2002-06-12 | WORLD THEATRE $1200: This "Martin Chuzzlewit" novelist not only co-wrote the play "The Frozen Deep", he acted in it, too Dickens |
#4108, aired 2002-06-12 | WORLD THEATRE $1600: Ichimura Manjiro is a famous Onnagata, a male actor who plays female roles in this form of Japanese drama kabuki |
#4108, aired 2002-06-12 | WORLD THEATRE $2000: This "Electra"fying playwright gets the credit for adding a third actor to Greek tragedies Sophocles |
#3795, aired 2001-02-16 | WORLD THEATRE $100: This "War and Peace" author's play "The Power of Darkness" was once banned in his native Russia Leo Tolstoy |
#3795, aired 2001-02-16 | WORLD THEATRE $200: Conor McPherson's haunting play "The Weir" is set in a pub in this country Ireland |
#3795, aired 2001-02-16 | WORLD THEATRE $300: Israeli playwright Nathan Alterman called his first play "Kineret, Kineret...", Kineret being Hebrew for the Sea of this Sea of Galilee |
#3795, aired 2001-02-16 | WORLD THEATRE $400: The "Chushingura", about a band of avenging Ronin, is one of the most famous plays in this form of Japanese drama Kabuki |
#3795, aired 2001-02-16 | WORLD THEATRE $500: Juliette Binoche starred in the 2000 Broadway revival of this British playwright's 1978 classic "Betrayal" Harold Pinter |
#2373, aired 1994-12-21 | WORLD THEATRE $200: The first known play presented at this British university was "St. Katherine" in 1490 Oxford |
#2373, aired 1994-12-21 | WORLD THEATRE $400: What we know about phylakes -- improvised plays from this ancient civilization -- comes from vase paintings Greece |
#2373, aired 1994-12-21 | WORLD THEATRE $600: This 19th century dramatist's early years in Skien, Norway influenced many of his plays Henrik Ibsen |
#2373, aired 1994-12-21 | WORLD THEATRE $800: This author of "The Threepenny Opera" founded the Berliner Ensemble in East Berlin in 1949 Bertolt Brecht |
#2373, aired 1994-12-21 | WORLD THEATRE $1000: This Irish poet fell in love with Maud Gonne & she starred in his play "Cathleen ni Houlihan" William Butler Yeats |
#1586, aired 1991-06-24 | WORLD THEATRE $200: The Olivier Theatre opened in this city in 1976 with a production of "Tamburlaine the Great" London |
#1586, aired 1991-06-24 | WORLD THEATRE $400: With few exceptions, the classical drama of India is written in this language Sanskrit |
#1586, aired 1991-06-24 | WORLD THEATRE $600: Arlecchino & Scapino were 2 of the Zanni, or Zanies, in this improvised Italian comedic form Commedia dell'arte |
#1586, aired 1991-06-24 | WORLD THEATRE $800: Many of Euripides' plays featured this theatrical device, "the god from the machine" Deus ex machina |
#1586, aired 1991-06-24 | WORLD THEATRE $1000: Riots followed the opening of this Synge play at Dublin's Abbey Theatre "Playboy of the Western World" |