Sir Donald Arthur Rolleston Albery (June 19, 1914 - September 14, 1988) was a British theatre impressario who did much to make the spirit of adventure of the London of the 1960s into theatrical reality. June 19 is the 170th day of the year (171st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 195 days remaining. ... 1914 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... September 14 is the 257th day of the year (258th in leap years). ... 1988 is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Theatre is that branch of the performing arts concerned with acting out stories in front of an audience using combinations of speech, gesture, music, dance, sound and spectacle — indeed any one or more elements of the other performing arts. ... The Clock Tower of the Palace of Westminster which contains Big Ben Tower Bridge at night A red double-decker bus crosses Piccadilly Circus. ... This article provides extensive lists of events and significant personalities of the 1960s. ...

Born into a theatrical family, his father was director Sir Bronson James Albery, his first job was struggling to manage Saddler's Wells Ballet during the air raids of World War II. Perhaps such an experience formed a modernist sensibility and 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. Strategic bombing is a military strategem used in a total war style campaign that attempts to destroy the economic ability of a nation-state to wage war. ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km (over 11 miles) into the air. ... Le Corbusiers Villa Savoye, 1929-30: The modern style is noted for its rigorous geometrical forms, and became adopted internationally, though not without continuing controversy Modernism in the cultural historical sense is generally defined as the new artistic and literary styles that emerged in the decades before 1914 as... The Donmar Warehouse is a small theatre in the Covent Garden area of the West End of London. ... 1953 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... Graham Greene (October 2, 1904 – April 3, 1991) was a prolific English novelist. ... Thomas Lanier Williams (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983), better known by the pen name Tennessee Williams, was a noted playwright. ... Edward Franklin Albee III (born March 12, 1928) is a leading American playwright, for many the most important one alive. ... Jean Anouilh(June 23, 1910- October 3, 1987) was a major French dramatist of the 20th century. ... John Boynton Priestley (September 13, 1894, Bradford, England - August 14, 1984, Stratford-upon-Avon) was a British writer and broadcaster. ... Iris Murdoch Dame Jean Iris Murdoch (July 15, 1919 - February 8, 1999) was an Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher, famed for her series of novels that combine rich characterization and compelling plotlines usually involving ethical or sexual themes. ... A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist. ...

Though 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 company. In 1960, Albery, in collaboration with William Donaldson, produced Beyond the Fringe in London and, in 1962, in New York. Samuel Beckett Samuel Barclay Beckett (April 13, 1906 – December 22, 1989) was an Irish playwright, novelist and poet. ... Vladimir and Estragon consider their carrot Waiting for Godot is an absurdist play by Samuel Beckett, written in the late 1940s and first published in 1952. ... Joan Maud Littlewood (October 6, 1914 - September 20, 2002) was a theatrical director, famous for her work in developing the left-wing Theatre Workshop. ... 1960 was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... William Donaldson (January 4, 1935 - June 22, 2005) was a British satirist, writer, rake and playboy, author of The Henry Root Letters. ... Beyond The Fringe was a British comedy show written and performed by Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Alan Bennett and Jonathan Miller. ... 1962 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... State nickname: Empire State Other U.S. States Capital Albany Largest city New York Governor George Pataki Official languages None Area 141,205 km² (27th)  - Land 122,409 km²  - Water 18,795 km² (13. ...

External links

• Trewin, W. (2004) "Albery, Sir Donald Arthur Rolleston (1914-1988)", rev., Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2005 <http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/39920, accessed 1 July 2005> (subscription required)