Sentences with phrase «american playwright»

The title of the portrait of the Pakistani - American playwright references James Joyce's work.

Performers: Dee Dorcas Beasnael Tymberly Canale Hye Young Chyun Robert M. Johanson Sibyl Kempson Matt Leabo Collaborators: Sahra Motalebi Suzanne Bocanegra Sarah Willis Production Assistance: Stephen McGroarty Sarah Scholl Molly Zimmelman 12 Shouts to the Ten Forgotten Heavens is a three - year iterative performance project by American playwright, director, and performer Sibyl Kempson with her theater company, 7 Daughters of Eve Thtr.

12 Shouts to the Ten Forgotten Heavens is a three - year iterative performance project by American playwright, director, and performer Sibyl Kempson with her theater company, 7 Daughters of Eve Thtr.

Sotheby's has announced that it will be handling the estate collection of the great American playwright Edward Albee.

Performers: Sibyl Kempson Sarah Willis Greta Hartenstein 12 Shouts to the Ten Forgotten Heavens is a three - year iterative performance project by American playwright, director, and performer Sibyl Kempson with her theater company, 7 Daughters of Eve Thtr.

When avant - garde Cuban - American playwright María Irene Fornés first produced the play «Fefu and Her Friends» in the 1970s, it took theater off the stage into various simultaneous locations around a building.

Among the hundreds of events taking place in Derry next year are the Turner Prize, which will be presented outside England for the first time, a new commission by the London Symphony Orchestra, a new play by American playwright Sam Shepard, performances by the Royal Ballet, the All Ireland Fleadh, which will be staged in Northern Ireland for the first time, the return of the Field Day theatre company which was founded in Derry in 1980, an address by Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney and a spectacular Return of Colmcille river event.

I think he's probably the best American playwright today, as well as being a terrific actor.

I also hesitate to compare us to Arthur Miller, who's the greatest American playwright maybe we've had — other than Tracy Letts [who plays Washington Post Chair Fritz Beebe], who's the most terrifying guy to write dialogue for in the world.

He agreed to purchase the rights for Bong, who started writing the early drafts of the script and enlisting American playwright and screenwriter Kelly Masterson (Before the Devil Knows You're Dead) to work on the English dialogue.

Tracy Letts is an American playwright, screenwriter, and actor.

The great American playwright August Wilson (1945 - 2005) may no longer be physically of this world, but his work, which discusses issues of race and family, among other topics, very much lives on, as relevant as ever.

Tracy Letts is an American playwright and actor.

More pertinently, it channelled the spirit of a great American playwright.

Paul Giovanni — «The Wicker Man» (1973) From «Witchfinder General» to «A Field In England,» pastoral horror has been a particularly British concern, one that reached its perfect form with Robin Hardy's bizarrely terrifying 1973 cult hit «The Wicker Man» and its folk soundtrack by American playwright and director Paul Giovanni.

I felt incredibly cold the other night and wore this outfit to Nationaltheatret (aka the National Theatre) to see the play Julemiddag (The long Christmas dinner) by American playwright Thornton Wilders).

At the close of the 1970s, I had a fierce crush on Sam Shepard, the eminent American playwright.

American playwright Lynn Nottage, in her studio in Brooklyn in 2014.

You can read it at: http://digital.turn-page.com/issue/8171/17 OR http://www.stage-directions.com/current-issue/106-plays-a-playwriting/2258-fast-scenes-slow-heart.html Tony Kushner is one of the more renowned American playwrights, having received a slew of prestigious awards including the... Continue reading →

The indomitable Joseph Papp introduced interracial casting to the American stage, brought free Shakespeare to Central Park, developed future Broadway hits like «Hair» and «A Chorus Line,» and nurtured many of the greatest American playwrights, directors, and actors.

July 1915 saw the founding of the Provincetown Players theatrical group, which quickly made a mark by presenting the work of contemporary American playwrights.

Not exact matches

Playwright, novelist and LGBT rights activist Larry Kramer is still making a stand for all Americans.

Foster, an Engloish playwright is hired by an American newspaper publisher to cover the trial.

Striking a more literary note from Egypt, poet and playwright Ali Salem wrote after 9/11 an open letter of apology to Americans: «Extremism may claim God as its redeemer, but it's really the selfish product of lunacy....

The eastern DRC has alternately been described as «the worst place in the world for women» by The Guardian and «hell» by American feminist playwright Eve Ensler.

Moonlighting playwright Martin McDonagh quickly yanked a trapdoor on his gallows humor — jerking from wry cringe comedy to a surreal congregation of blinded skinheads, fat Americans and midgets on drug benders before a violent, solemn climactic parable about purgatory.

Jeffrey Warren «Jeff» Daniels (born February 19, 1955) is an American actor, musician and playwright.

That's Manchester, Massachusetts, a small fishing community that's the setting for this devastating tale of buried trauma from American director and playwright Kenneth Lonergan («You Can Count on Me»).

The film also weaves in lots of scenes that are meant to make us think that Barnum was the first 21st century - style «woke» white straight man in America — a goodhearted fellow who gave circus jobs to outcasts of one kind or another (talk about a big tent: the repertory company includes African - Americans, little people, giants, conjoined twins and a bearded lady), not just because they happened to possess certain talents or physical characteristics that Barnum could exploit (often by appealing to the majority's prurient interests or bigotries) but because the onetime poor boy Barnum sees himself in their striving, and wants to build a theatrical - carnival arts utopia in America's largest city with help from his new partner, rich kid turned playwright Philip Carlyle (Zac Efron).

Nelsan Ellis (born c. 1978) is an award - winning American film and television actor and playwright, perhaps best known as Lafayette Reynolds on HBO's True Blood.

Since the premiere of his play «Killer Joe» in Chicago in 1993, actor and playwright Tracy Letts has become a major figure in American theater, winning the Pulitzer Prize in 2008 for his play «August: Osage County» and this year's Tony...

Taking a swing at the prevalent commercialization of Broadway Theater Playwright Tracy Letts gave a big thumbs up to the producers of the play simply for their gall to «Äúdo something amazing: (by) staging an American play on roadway with theater artists.»

Falco and Hunsecker are classic American movie characters, written with knifelike wit, commanding craft and true street genius by Ernest Lehman (who worked in this world) and Clifford Odets (a one - time playwright king of Broadway).

Playwright Lucy Kirkwood said that the story, first staged at the Almeida theatre in 2013, has only grown more relevant: «It was thrilling for me to return to the story of two men, one American and one Chinese, trying to work out how to respond to the outrages of an increasingly outrageous world, and look through their eyes at our changing relationship with journalism, power, protest, and images themselves».

The long - awaited sophomore film from playwright Kenneth Lonergan («You Can Count On Me «-RRB- was like a big - screen adaptation of an imagined Great American Novel, sprawling and literate and humane and brilliant.

From the directors of American Splendor and The Nanny Diaries and based on a novel by Bored to Death creator Jonathan Ames, The Extra Man stars Kevin Kline as a poor, eccentric playwright who takes a young writer, played by Paul Dano, under his wing.

He pioneered a staccato style that would become highly imitated, but playwright, screenwriter and director David Mamet is still one of the more distinctive voices in American independent film — one that will be celebrated at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica in the coming weeks.

Playwright and film director Martin McDonagh (In Bruges) drives a bulldozer through the American heartland, and digs up the decomposed remains of innocence and optimism.

Scripted by the playwright Matt Charman (and later revised by the Coen Brothers), Bridge of Spies follows Donovan as he defends Abel (Mark Rylance) up to the Supreme Court, and later negotiates a prisoner swap in East Berlin after an American Air Force pilot, Francis Gary Powers (Austin Stowell), is shot down behind Soviet lines.

Directed by American Splendor «s Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pucini, the comedy follows a New York playwright (Wiig) who's released into the care of her Jersey - trash mother (Annette Bening) following a suicide attempt.

Chadwick Boseman is an American actor, playwright, and screenwriter hailing from Anderson, South Carolina.

Shepard, the Pulitzer Prize - winning playwright, Oscar - nominated actor and celebrated author whose plays chronicled the explosive fault lines of family and masculinity in the American

In Horton Foote's comedy «Dividing the Estate,» a fading, old - money Texas clan squabbles over its inheritance, with the nonagenarian playwright slyly shining a light on the excesses of American economic prosperity that we've long taken for granted.

Titled August Wilson's American Century Cycle, the groundbreaking series brings together a stellar group of actors, directors and other talents — many of whom worked with Wilson — for live staged readings and recordings of the playwright's dramas at New York Public Radio's the Greene Space.

Well, at least from this Irish playwright's razored perspective of the American heartland, it is.

After establishing himself as one of America's best playwrights with «American Buffalo» and «Glengarry Glen Ross,» and writing the screenplays for «The Verdict» and «The Untouchables,» David Mamet made his film directing debut with the carefully constructed crime thriller «House of Games.»

Slate talked to more than 50 actors, directors, playwrights, and critics to tell the story of Angels» turbulent ascension into the pantheon of great American storytelling — and to discuss the legacy of a play that feels, in an era in which gay Americans have the right to marry but still in many ways live under siege, as crucial as ever.»

A film graduate (M.F.A. in Directing from the American Film Institute) who to this point, has had more experience working as a playwright, Bill Oliver has moved feature film into the forefront with his directorial debut.

The film's stable of voice actors reads like a Who's Who of Latin - American talent: the ensemble includes Edward James Olmos, Alfonso Arau, Ana Ofelia Murguia, Alanna Ubach and, in a small role, to my surprise and astonishment, playwright Octavio Solis, who was one of my teachers in high school back in Dallas.

Left to right: The playwright David Henry Hwang, chair of the American Theatre Wing; Heather Hitchens, president and CEO of the ATW; Obies host John Leguizamo; and Voice CEO Peter Barbey