Sentences with phrase «best playwright»

«Christian drama» was an elusive category and few good playwrights attempted it.

I wrote it with Peter Cook, who is a Hollywood writer, not the Peter Cook, but a very good playwright, Peter Cook.

This was ironic for me because I felt like the best playwrights had some kind of political message, some kind of reason to communicate with their stories through entertainment.

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.»

Not exact matches

Playwright George Bernard Shaw put it best a century ago: «The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.

Even the Greek playwright, Euripides said that «it is better to be a serpent than a stepmother.»

Yet all fiction writers (and playwrights and filmmakers, for that matter) must make similar imaginative leaps, and will be judged — as Styron has been judged — by how convincingly they portray the characters whose points of view they've done their best to assume.

If it is true, as the playwright William Saroyan once wrote, that the best part of a man «stays forever,» Warren Zevon's music will live on.

This passage doesn't come wholly from the playwright's imagination — Karol Wotjyla was well - known for his outdoorsmanship.

Playwright Athol Fugard manages to write and produce his plays in South Africa as well as in London and New York, but he claims that he must use caution.

A songwriter might need accompanying musicians; an author might need a designer to do good work in designing a book cover; a playwright will need actors and a theater to bring her play to life.

In the autumn of 1886, when he read a paper entitled, «Is the playwright the best historian?»

An award - winning author and playwright (The Vagina Monologues, The Good Body) and creator of V - Day, which has raised some $ 70 million to fight violence against girls and women -LSB-...]

An award - winning author and playwright (The Vagina Monologues, The Good Body) and creator of V - Day, which has raised some $ 70 million to fight violence against girls and women around the world, Ensler now wants to start a revolution — a girl revolution.

Clearly the playwright had a good source (or two or three).»

[198] In addition to novels, other literature arts such as Ghanaian theatre and poetry have also had a very good development and support at the national level with prominent Ghanaian playwrights and poets Joe de Graft and Efua Sutherland.

Mayor Kathy Sheehan: «He is best known as a novelist, but he's also an historian, a journalist, a critic, an essayist, a poet, a philosopher, a screenwriter, a playwright and a treasured friend and colleague to many.

Hood's achievements also include writing and directing 2005's Tsotsi, an Oscar - winning adaptation of playwright Athol Fugard's only novel: a story of violence and redemption that many considered, well, unfilmable.

In any event, the playwright gave a brilliant performance, the best brief explanation on record of why that night's honoree remains the modern archetype of genius.

Emily Lloyd in 1986 in Wish You Were Here (Image: Channel 4) Emily was born in London to loving parents Sheila Hughes, a former PA to playwright Harold Playlist Best of Cher Lloyd: https:///2ba7yP Subscribe for more: https:///f1kCtj Cher Lloyd's official music video for «With Ur Love

Though subsequent performances in Better Than Sex (2000) and Russian Doll (2001) earned Wenham even more critical acclaim overseas, it was his role as a transvestite playwright in director Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge that gave the rising star his first true taste of international success.

Though Strouse reportedly based his screenplay on his own difficulties making a name for himself as a playwright early in his career, the film's look into the life of struggling artist Jessica James (Jessica Williams) feels familiar at best.

The playwright / screenwriter / director also often employs a really clever technique of the interrupted conversation - «Glengarry Glen Ross» is an excellent example of characters interfering with their counterparts» lines in a deliberate (but, when done well, perfectly natural) way.

Playwright Terence McNally is probably best - known for Corpus Christie — his controversial stage drama about Jesus and his apostles as gay men in contemporary Texas.

Moonlight director Barry Jenkins won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay along with playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney who wrote the play upon which the film is based, In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue.

The playwright - turned - filmmaker made his cinematic debut with «In Bruges,» which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay.

Well, it has a number of things working in its favour, including a literate screenplay by Stephen Karam, a playwright twice nominated for the Pulitzer.

Who better to epitomize Nubian beauty and radiance on our cover than the actress / playwright who wields both a sword and a pen with equal adroitness?

Not enough that his Jon is working on a book on Brecht, however: The Savages is the type of film that spends a long time explaining who Brecht is and then that much more time paralleling the social formalism of the playwright with Wendy's need to have her father in a hospice with better landscaping.

Under Pam MacKinnon's ruthlessly incisive direction, Tracy Letts and Amy Morton — playwright and star of the celebrated «August: Osage County» — reunite as a particularly well - matched George and Martha, whose epic battles are as dangerous as their need for each other is palpable.

And maybe a kickline would have improved the best play intros, which perplexingly were delivered by the playwrights.

Framed by a boisterous dinner scene between playwright friends, alarm bells ring early in Melinda and Melinda when conversation turns to whether a random scenario, the arrival of an unexpected stranger at a dinner party, would work best as the premise for tragic drama or comedy.

One is a famous, published author, Boris Trigorin (Corey Stoll), as well as her son, Konstantin (Billy Howle), who fancies himself a «new» kind of playwright.

Chambers is a longtime actor, playwright and author, but he's probably best known as a respected child acting coach.

James Foley directs the playwright's signature cadence better than the man himself, and the all - star cast give performances they've each only hoped to match since.

(In a nicely - phrased bit of praise, he says the playwright's words feel good in his mouth.)

All together now: you write good parts, you get good actors: David Hare, one of the great contemporary British playwrights, wrote this intending it to be a feature film, but nobody would give him the money for a theatrical film.

A very funny film about a playwright who enlists a gangster to help him bring life and reality to his play, it was one of Allen's best works with hysterically funny performances from John Cusack, the -LSB-...]

The top 12 features well loved playwright's like Tennessee Williams (though I was surprised by his second most revived), Arthur Miller, Eugene O'Neill, and of course Edward Albee's masterpiece Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf • Variety Rance Howard, the character actor and father of Ron Howard, has passed away • Gr8ter Days David Cassidy, 70s teen idol of the Patridge Family has passed away • Variety The Seen and Unseen, which you'll remember I raved about at TIFF, has won two new prizes this past week, splitting the Grand Prize at Tokyo FilmEx and winning the APSA for Youth Feature.

Actor - director - playwright Laura Anne Harris takes a look at five of the year's best performances that deserve more attention: Rachel Weisz in The Lobster, Mahershala Ali and Andre Holland in Moonlight Margarite Breitkreiz in Marija and Rebecca Hall in Christine During Awards season, flashy performances tend to get all the praise.

«Manchester by the Sea» features the playwright's hallmarks of small family drama, hard - luck characters with good hearts, a little volatility and unexpected turns that ring true.

McDonagh is a beloved playwright — and an Oscar winner for Best Live Action Short Film — who has a good ear for dialogue, including copious use of the aforementioned «f» word; the actors savor it like fine dining.

The film surrounds its heroine with a vibrant ensemble: her warmly supportive but depressed father (playwright - turned - prolific - supporting - player Tracy Letts), the school's reasonably understanding head nun (veteran character actor Lois Smith, who's having a good year), the highly emotional drama instructor (fellow stage pro Stephen Henderson).

Mr. Shepard is a Pulitzer Prize winner, an award winning playwright, and well known actor (Oscar nominated for playing Chuck Yeager in The Right Stuff).

In 2005, his sophomore effort L'esquive — a raw, direct exploration of teenage sexual politics in the banlieues (the French suburban hoods) by way of eighteenth century playwright Marivaux - unexpectedly trumped critical favorite Kings and Queen and populist heavyweights A Very Long Engagement and Oscar nominee The Chorus at the César Awards, winning Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay.

Irish playwright Martin McDonagh's debut evades tired hitman - comedy territory via breezy performances (including a never - better Colin Farrell), inventive location work and, above all, the savage intelligence and elegiac wit of McDonagh's writing.

«Manchester By the Sea» is the comeback movie from lauded playwright and director Kenneth Lonergan, likeliest to win Best Original Screenplay.

Dana's dad (John Turturro), a failed playwright who's settled for a copywriting gig, has always been the «good cop» when it's come to policing family squabbles, but he's not doing such a hot job of hiding the (awful) erotic poetry he's writing for his mistress.

Also in attendance were the stars of the play Billy Carter, Johnny Flynn, Mark Addy, Reece Shearsmith, Gaby French and Sally Rogers, as well as playwright Martin McDonagh, director Matthew Dunster and managing director Jeffory Lawson.

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.