Sentences with phrase «american theater actor»

After the death in 2004 of American theater actor and monologist Spalding Gray, director Steven Soderbergh pieced together a narrative of Gray's life to create the documentary And Everything Is Going Fine.

Heralded as «the finest American theater actor of his generation» by the New York Times, Liev Schreiber repertoire of resonant, humanistic, and oftentimes gritty portrayals have garnered him praise in film, theatre, and television.

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Yul Brynner, the great American actor who played the part of the King of Siam and devoted much of his career to The King and I, was known to prepare for each performance by trying to push down the brick wall at the back of the theater.

Edison's 1896 creation capturing Irwin and actor John C. Rice doing something naughty caused a nationwide uproar as newspaper editorials declared the end of American morality and called for police action in theaters that dared to show the 18 - second flick.

American actor Warren Kenner primarily worked in theater but also occasionally worked on television and in a few feature films including Obsession (1976) and Sounder, Part 2 (1976).

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...

Judged against the original 2001 movie version of Wet Hot American Summer — a film no one saw in theaters, before it became a cult obsession in part because then - unknown actors like Bradley Cooper, Amy Poehler, Paul Rudd, and Elizabeth Banks became huge stars — the two Netflix spinoff seasons (including 2015's First Day of Camp prequel) can't help but come up wanting.

Trained in the theater, with a versatility and discipline more common among British performers than Americans, he was a character actor who could take on any role, large or small, loathsome or sympathetic.