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 classic plays in rotating repertory, while maintaining the highest professional standards.
Antonio Denzio (23 September 1689 – after 1763) was an Italian impresario, tenor, and librettist.
 Born in Venice to a family of musicians and operatic personnel, he pursued a career mainly as a singer until 1724, when he traveled to Bohemia as a member of the opera company of Antonio Maria Peruzzi, probably his uncle.
 Peruzzi had the idea of bringing an Italian opera company to central Europe to perform first in Prague, then Dresden and Leipzig.
 The company was first brought to Bohemia under the patronage of Count Franz Anton von Sporck, who had it play at his palace at Kuks in northwest Bohemia in the summer of 1724.
 The performances were so successful that he permitted the company to perform free of charge in his palace in Prague.
 After disagreements with Peruzzi, Denzio was able to supplant him as impresario before the end of the year 1724 and continued productions in the Sporck palace until 1735.
 Peruzzi left with some of the Peruzzi-Denzio players to found the Breslau Opera.
 Denzio's opera theater at Sporck's palace was the first standing opera theater in the city.
 His productions were popular with the Bohemian nobility until about 1729, after which Denzio's finances deteriorated.
 Count Sporck provided no financial assistance to the company except the free use of his theater, and he allowed it to fail.
 The company went bankrupt and Denzio was forced to spend time in debtors' prison.
 During its heyday, Denzio was able to attract at least one of the principal singing stars in Italy to Prague each season.
 The most prominent of all was Margherita Gualandi, who was forced to come to Prague after being blackballed in Italy for bad behavior.
 Denzio sought the assistance of Antonio Vivaldi in engaging singers for his company, and the composer sent music.
 In the early 1730s, Vivaldi came himself to Prague.
 Some of the music for one of his operas composed for Prague, "Argippo", has only recently been re-discovered.
Clare Tree Major (1880 – October 10, 1954) was a stage director, playwright, producer of children's theater, and actress.
 She first acted in London, but in 1914 she came to New York to perform with the Washington Square Players.
 She was the first British actress to tour America from coast to coast.
 From the 1920s on she worked exclusively on theater for children, writing plays and sending professional actors on tour to perform them.
A combination company was a theatrical touring company which performed only one play.
 Unlike repertory companies, which performed multiple plays in rotation, combination companies used more elaborate and specialized scenery in their productions.
 Repertory theatre had been popular in the United States through the 19th century, and it is not clear how the combination system originated.
 Combination companies contributed to the early success of Broadway theatre, as most combination companies began their tours in New York City.
 Combination companies were fueled by stars.
 The Star agenda or star system that had been set in place in mid 19th century America helped greatly in the development of the combination company.
 The idea of celebrity was at full force and people would flock to theater houses to see their favorite stars perform.
 Stars made famous in New York would travel to stock theaters and perform limited engagements there.
 “The engagements of the first important stars… were rare and special events”(Poggi 4).
 Audiences would come in from all over to sold out performances at playhouses and see their favorite stars.
 The Stock companies would cancel their normal repertory programs for a few nights to allow for the show of the star.
 The star would be supported by the local company of actors in the play, which proved to be very frustrating to them (Poggi 5).
 After the star left, the company returned to its repertory schedule as per usual.
 Yet annoyed by the lack of talent from regional companies, the stars began to search for companies to tour with them.
 They began to tour with two or three actors, and then eventually whole companies would tour with them and they would perform a repertory of plays (Wilmeth 200-201).
 This switch to companies that support the stars for the whole tour was one more step in the transition from stock companies to combination companies.
Richard Burbage (6 January 1567 – 12 March 1619) is considered the first great actor of English theatre.
 He is one of the most famous actors of the Globe Theatre of his time.
 In addition to being a stage actor he was also a theatre owner, entrepreneur and painter.
 He was the younger brother of Cuthbert Burbage.
 They were both actors in drama.
 Burbage was a business associate and friend to William Shakespeare.
Charles Swanston (1789 – 5 September 1850) merchant, banker and politician was a financial backer of the Port Phillip Association.
 He was born in Berwick upon Tweed, England the son of Robert and Rebecca (née Lambert) Swanston.
 At 16 he was commissioned a lieutenant in the private army of the British East India Company.
The Pantages Theatre is an historic theater in Salt Lake City, Utah in the United States of America.
 It opened in 1918 as the Pantages Theater, after the name of its owner, Alexander Pantages.
 Babe Ruth performed there in 1927.
 Abbott and Costello, Will Rogers, and many other celebrities also performed in the theater during its heyday.
 Formerly also known as the RKO Orpheum and later as the Utah Theater, it was built in 1918.
 The theater was originally built for vaudeville at the princely sum of over two million dollars, making it among the most expensive and opulent structures in the Pantages theater chain.
 The structure, designed by celebrated architect B. Marcus Priteca, was built in the interior of a city block, and reached by long grand gallery extending to Main Street.
 The interior lobby was done in an exotic neo-classical style, [the touted Pantages Greek] with ornate plaster work, an inlaid marble floor, and ramps ascending to the mezzanine level.
 The interior was accented with Alaskan marble and faux tile.
 The auditorium's proscenium was flanked with marble columns and gilded opera boxes.
 The hall's ceiling was decorated with a Tiffany skylight.
 The main floor of the auditorium seated 1700, and the balcony accommodated an additional 600 patrons.
 The theater functioned as a vaudeville venue through the 1920s, before being converted into a movie palace during the 1930s.
 Through most of the decade, the theater was owned by Radio-Keith Orpheum and was renamed the RKO Orpheum.
 By 1937, however, it had taken the name the Utah Theater, which has endured to the present.
 One of the highlights of the Utah as a movie venue was during the mid-1960s, when the Sound of Music had a run in the theater that lasted two years.
 In 1968, the theater was split into upper and lower levels, with the balcony being transformed into a second auditorium.
 This architectural arrangement, commonly known as "piggybacking," was frequently imposed on older traditional theaters during the 1960s and early 1970s.
 With this transformation, an escalator ascended from the Utah's mezzanine to the top rows of the balcony.
 During the remodeling the proscenium, box seating and some of the elaborate ornamentation was removed.
 In 1988, the structure ceased operation as a movie theater, and was used by local dance company until 1992, when the building was sold.
 After passing through the hands of various owners, the vacant building was purchased by the Salt Lake City Redevelopment Agency in 2009.
 At this time there are no definitive plans for the future of this theater.
Arkady Pogodin (Russian: Арка́дий Соломо́нович Пого́дин , born Arkady Piliver; 1901, Odessa, Russian Empire — 1975, Moscow, USSR) was a Soviet singer who worked in variety theater and operetta.
 At 16 years of age, Pogodin started appearing on theater stage in small roles.
 In 1922 he moved to Moscow, where he started working in small variety theaters performing funny songs.
 In 1924 he was already appearing on the stage of the prestigious Hermitage Theater.
 In 1938 Pogodin was invited to sing the lead role of Albert in an operetta titled "Delicate Diplomacy" ("Тонкая дипломатия" by Johann Strauss) at the Moscow Theater of Miniatures; he performed at the theater in the 1938–1939 season.
 Then he accidentally met theater director A. Arnold who invited him to sing the lead role in the operetta "Chocolate Soldier" (based on a work by Bernard Shaw, with music by the Pokrass brothers) that was set to open the 1939 summer season in the CDKA park.
 The operetta, which played in the park for a month, featured many famous artists including the Alexander Tsfasman Jazz Orchestra, Maria Mironova, etc.
 After that Tsfasman invited Pogodin to perform with his orchestra in the Khudozestvenny movie theater and on Saturdays and Sundays after midnight on the radio.
 Pogodin also recorded a number of grammophone records.
 And here composer and friend Konstantin Listov offered Pogodin to become the first artist to sing a new song he wrote.
 The song, titled "V Parke Chair" ("В парке Чаир"), instantly made "widely known in narrow circles" Pogodin a popular and trendy singer.
 In December 1939, he decided to take part in the first All-Russian Variety Artists Contest and became a Laureat along with such singers as Klavdiya Shulzhenko, Keto Dzhaparidze, etc.
 Since then he toured a lot and continued to sing on the radio.
 His grammophone records were very popular.
 Among his songs that were played everywhere were: "V Parke Chair", "Vozvrata Net" ("Возврата нет"), "Ya Zhdu Pisma" ("Я жду письма"), "Oglyanis" ("Оглянись").
 Football matches at the time would usually open with his song "Schastlivy Dozhdik" ("Счастливый дождик").
Un-Scripted Theater Company is an improv theater company based out of San Francisco, California.
 Unlike most improv troupes, Un-Scripted Theater Company does not perform just one kind of improv format, but rather 4 to 7 runs of uniquely different improv formats each year.
 Each season is set up like a "normal" theater season with 4 to 8 week runs of shows, each with its own Director, format, and vision.
Eliard Swanston (died 1651), alternatively spelled Heliard, Hilliard, Elyard, Ellyardt, Ellyaerdt, and Eyloerdt, was an English actor in the Caroline era.
 He became a leading man in the King's Men, the company of William Shakespeare and Richard Burbage, in the final phase of its existence.

Question: What theater did the company that Eliard Swanston worked for perform at?
Answer: the Globe Theatre