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Albery Theatre
Albery is a name. It may refer to: Given name * Albery Allson Whitman (1851−1901), African American poet, minister and orator Surname * A. S. Albery, British politician * Bronson Albery (1881−1971), English theatre director and impresario * Donald Albery (1914−1988), English theatre impresario * Ian Albery (born 1936), English theatre consultant, manager, and producer * Irving Albery (1879−1967), English politician * James Albery (1838−1889), English dramatist * James Albery (field hockey) (born 1995),English field hockey player * Jessica Mary Albery (1908-1990), British architect and town planner * John Albery (1936−2013), British chemist and academic * Nicholas Albery (1948−2001), British alternative society activist * Nobuko Albery (born 1940), Japanese author and theatrical producer * Tim Albery (born 1952), English stage director * Wyndham Albery (1882-1940), British politician and accountant See also *The Albery Theatre, now renamed the Noël Coward Theatre * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albery Allson Whitman
Albery Allson Whitman (May 30, 1851June 29, 1901 was an African-American poet, minister and orator. Born into slavery, Whitman became a writer. During his lifetime he was acclaimed as the "Poet Laureate of the Negro Race". He worked as a manual laborer, school teacher, financial agent, fundraiser and pastor. He died in Atlanta in 1901 of pneumonia. Early life and education Whitman was born into slavery at a farm near Munfordville, Kentucky. After years as a manual laborer, working at a plowshop, on railroad construction and as a teacher, Whitman attended Wilberforce University in 1870. There he studied with Bishop Daniel Payne. Whitman stated that he wrote his 1877 poem "Not a Man and Yet a Man" so that "he might speak more effectively for Wilberforce". His writings made him the most popular African American poet in the Reconstruction era. Later life and family After six months at Wilberforce, Whitman left to become the financial agent for the university and an African Methodi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bronson Albery
Sir Bronson James Albery (6 March 1881 – 21 July 1971) was an English theatre director and impresario. Albery was knighted in 1949 for his services to the theatre. The Albery Theatre in London was named in his honour and his elder son, Sir Donald Albery, was also a theatrical impresario. Bronson was second son of dramatist, James Albery, and stage actress, Mary Moore. He was a brother to politicians, Irving Albery & Wyndham Albery. Albery married Una Gwynn Rolleston. By 1953, Sir Bronson Albery was the name over the Criterion Theatre The Criterion Theatre is a West End theatre at Piccadilly Circus in the City of Westminster, and is a Grade II* listed building. It has a seating capacity of 588. Building the theatre In 1870, the caterers Spiers and Pond began developmen ..., leased from The Wyndham Theatres Ltd and licensed by the Lord Chamberlain.infotextmanuscripts.orgCriterion Programme, June 1953/ref> References 1881 births 1971 deaths English theatr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Albery
Sir Donald Arthur Rolleston Albery (19 June 1914 – 14 September 1988) was an English theatre impresario who did much to translate the adventurous spirit of London in the 1960s onto the stage. Biography He was born into a theatrical family, with his father being the director Sir Bronson James Albery. His first job was to manage Sadler's Wells Ballet during the Blitz. When he launched his own Donmar company in 1953 he championed plays by Graham Greene, Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, Jean Anouilh, and an adaptation by J. B. Priestley of an Iris Murdoch novel. Though he was always commercially minded, his spirit of adventure endured with the first London production of Samuel Beckett's ''Waiting for Godot'' and sponsorship of Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop. In 1961, Albery, in collaboration with William Donaldson, produced ''Beyond the Fringe'' in London and, in 1962, in New York. From 1964 to 1968, Albery served as director and administrator of the London Festival ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Albery
Ian Bronson Albery (born 21 September 1936) is an English theatre consultant, manager, and producer. He is a former chief executive of Sadler's Wells Theatre (1994-2002), and was in charge of the Donmar Warehouse from 1961 to 1989."History" , ''Donmar Warehouse''. Retrieved 2012-10-13. He is the son of Sir , a prolific theatre manager. From 1958 to 1972, Ian Albery served as , production manager, or for more than 100 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irving Albery
Sir Irving James Albery (12 May 1879 – 14 November 1967) was a Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom who served as Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), member of parliament (MP) for Gravesend (UK Parliament constituency), Gravesend from 1924 to 1945. Biography The eldest of three sons of actress and theatrical manager Mary Moore (stage actress), Mary Moore (later Lady Wyndham) and actor James Albery Albery first stood for Parliament of the United Kingdom, Parliament at the 1923 United Kingdom general election, 1923 general election, when he unsuccessfully contested the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party safe seat of Bow and Bromley (UK Parliament constituency), Bow and Bromley in the East End of London. His youngest brother Wyndham Albery, Wyndham went into politics and middle brother, Bronson Albery, Bronson, became a theatre manager. At the 1929 United Kingdom general election, 1929 general election, he was elected as MP for the Gravesen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Albery
James Albery (4 May 1838 – 15 August 1889) was an English dramatist. Life and career Albery was born in London. On leaving school he entered an architect's office and started to write plays. His farce ''A Pretty Piece of Chiselling'' was given its first production by the Ingoldsby Club in 1864. After some failures, his adaptation, ''Dr Davy'', was produced at the Lyceum Theatre, London (1866). His most successful piece, ''Two Roses'', a comedy, was produced at the Vaudeville Theatre in 1870, in which Sir Henry Irving made one of his earliest London successes as Digby Grant. The production ran for 300 performances. Albery was the author of a large number of other plays and adaptations, including ''Coquettes'' (1870); ''Pickwick'', a four-act drama based on Dickens's ''The Pickwick Papers'' (1871); ''The Pink Dominos'' (1877), a farce that ran for an extremely successful 555 performances and was one of a series of adaptations from the French which he made for the Criterion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Albery (field Hockey)
James Peter Albery (born 2 October 1995) is an English field hockey player who plays as a defender or midfielder for Old Georgians and the England and Great Britain national teams. He competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics. Biography Albery attended Heath Mount and the The Leys School, Cambridge and in the Upper Sixth was Head Boy. He played hockey for Cambridge City and Beeston before joining Old Georgians in the Men's England Hockey League Premier Division for the 2015 season. Albery made his senior England debut on 2 March 2017 against South Africa, in Cape Town, South Africa. He won a bronze medal with England in the Men's tournament at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. Albery helped Old Georgians complete the league and cup double during the 2022–23 season. He was selected to represent Great Britain at the 2024 Summer Olympics. The team went out in the quarter-finals after losing a penalty shootout to India. References External links * James Albery ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jessica Mary Albery
Jessica Albery (1908–1990) was a British architect and town planner, and one of the first generation of professional women architects in the UK in the early 20th century. Early life and education Jessica Mary Albery was born in London on 11 June 1908, the only daughter and the eldest of the three children of Irving Albery, a wealthy stockbroker who was later Conservative MP for Gravesend (1924–45) and was knighted in 1936 for political and public services, and of his wife, Gertrude ("Jill") Mary, ''née'' Jones (1884–1967). Both parents came from theatrical families. Her paternal grandparents were actress and theatrical manager Mary Moore (later Lady Wyndham) and actor and playwright James Albery. Her maternal grandfather was playwright Henry Arthur Jones, a creative artistic background which inspired her. Albery was the god-daughter of Eleanor ("Nellie") Farjeon, the author, poet, biographer, historian, satirist, journalist, broadcaster and award-winner. As her separa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Albery
Wyndham John Albery (5 April 1936 – 3 December 2013) was a British physical chemist and academic. Early life Wyndham John Albery was born on 5 April 1936. His father Michael James Albery (1910–75), a barrister, was part of a sprawling theatrical family network as the son of Gertrude Mary (née Jones, daughter of dramatist Henry Arthur Jones) and Irving Albery a Conservative MP and the son of actress and theatrical manager Mary Moore (later Lady Wyndham) and dramatist James Albery. His aunt Jessica Mary Albery was one of Britain's first female professional architects. He was educated at Winchester College and Balliol College, Oxford. He undertook his D.Phil. at Oxford with Ronnie Bell, starting in 1960. Academic career Albery was appointed to a Weir Junior Research Fellowship in October 1962 and then to a Fellowship and Praelectorship in Chemistry at University College, Oxford in October 1963, where he was briefly a colleague of E. J. Bowen. He served in his college a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Albery
Nicholas Bronson Albery (28 July 1948 – 3 June 2001) was a British social inventor and author, was the instigator or coordinator of a variety of projects aimed at an improvement to society, often known as the alternative society. Early life and education Albery was born at Bricket House, St Albans, Hertfordshire, son of the theatre impresario Sir Donald Albery (son of Sir Bronson Albery, also a theatre impresario) and his second wife, Cicely, daughter of Army officer Reginald Harvey Henderson Boys. While a student at St John's College, Oxford, Albery became involved with psychedelic and spiritual movements in San Francisco, California, and dropped out of college. After a period in Haight Ashbury, he returned to the UK and joined the anti-university in London. Life BIT Albery became involved with the newly started BIT Information Service, quickly becoming a driving force in the development of wider activities for BIT so that it became one of the first social centres. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nobuko Albery
Nobuko, Lady Albery (born 1940) is a Japanese author and theatrical producer and the widow of English theatrical impresario, Sir Donald Albery. Early life She was born Nobuko Uenishi in Kobe, Japan, the daughter of parents Keiji and Sodako. She attended Waseda University and later New York University from 1961 to 1963 where she received her Masters in drama. International flavour Through her theatre work she helped to bring several adaptations of Western plays to Japan, beginning in 1963 with ''Gone with the Wind''. Other plays include: ''Fiddler on the Roof'' (1964), ''Les Misérables'' (1987), ''Oscar'' (1994), as well translator into Japanese of ''Oliver!'' (1968) and ''Miss Saigon'' (1992). Despite being a native of Japan, she has lived abroad most of her life and considers herself an outsider to Japan. This enabled her to bring a different perspective to theatre in Japan by challenging how plays are produced there and what Japanese audiences will respond to. Personal lif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Albery
Tim Bronson Reginald Albery (born 20 May 1952) is an English stage director, best known for his productions of opera. Life and career Albery was born in Harpenden, the son of the impresario Donald Albery and grandson of the producer Sir Bronson Albery. Albery's brother was the social inventor Nicholas Albery. After directing drama in the British provinces, he directed his first operatic production, Britten's '' The Turn of the Screw'' for a music festival at Batignano, Italy in 1983. For Opera North, Albery directed operas by Tippett, Mozart and most notably Berlioz: his production of ''Les Troyens'' is described by ''The New Grove Dictionary of Opera'' as "triumphant". For the English National Opera (ENO), Albery directed Berlioz’s '' Beatrice and Benedict'' (1990) and Britten’s ''Billy Budd'' (1988) and '' Peter Grimes'' (1991). Together with his fellow directors, Richard Jones, Jude Kelly, Phyllida Lloyd, Deborah Warner and Francesca Zambello, Albery publicly su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
