Sentences with phrase «york playwright»

EMMA THOMPSON is embroiled in a court battle to get her latest film EFFIE off the ground after a New York playwright accused the actress of copyright...

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.

A failed New York playwright awkwardly navigates the transition from Next Big Thing to Last Year's News.

Kristen Wiig's default mode of defeated exasperation sets the tone for Berman and Pulcini's slow - footed comedy about an out - of - work, loveless New York playwright who's forced to move back in with her wacky mother (Annette Bening) after a fake suicide attempt.

Set in 1941, an intellectual New York playwright Barton Fink (John Turturro) accepts an offer to write movie scripts in L.A..

10:35 am — IFC — Barton Fink One of the Coen Brothers» most brilliant dark comedies (heh, I think I say that about all of their dark comedies, though), Barton Fink follows its title character, a New York playwright whose hit play brings him to the attention of Hollywood, where he goes to work for the movies.

That isn't to say the 35 - year - old comic is actually a 70 - some - odd - year - old failed New York playwright.

In Imogene, Wiig plays a New York playwright who fakes a suicide attempt to win back her ex-boyfriend.

Stephen Daldry directs this hilarious and profound heart - breaker — a major world premiere in two parts by New York playwright Matthew Lopez.

After his stage comedy Life in the Rough was filmed in 1930, New York playwright Vincent Lawrence made periodic trips to Hollywood, usually stopping at either MGM or Paramount.

Not exact matches

When nine women came forth with sexual misconduct allegations against his father, playwright Israel Horowitz, in The New York Times, Beastie Boys member Adam «Ad - Rock» Horovitz, 51, made headlines when he publicly took the side of the women who came forth.

NEW YORK (AP)-- Three - time Pulitzer Prize - winning playwright Edward Albee has died in suburban New York City at age 88.

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.

Famous sufferers include Lou Gehrig, the 1923 - 39 New York Yankees baseball player; actor and playwright Sam Shepard, who died last month; and Hawking, a rare example of someone living for decades with the condition.

In her new play, Boy, now on stage at the Clurman Theatre in New York City, playwright Anna Ziegler presents an engrossing, fictionalized account of the Reimer case.

It requires routine practice, and that brings a level of mindfulness that is «calming,» says Garlia Cornelia, a 34 - year - old mom of two and a playwright in the suburbs of New York.

I am a playwright with a musical in development in new york.

The director personally wooed playwright Sam Shepard for the role of the farmer, and young Linda Manz was discovered in a New York casting call.

Following graduation, he won a role in playwright Ntozake Shange's Spell 7 and then moved to New York to further pursue his career.

A playwright (Eric Stoltz) learns about life and love when his play is slated to be produced in New York City.

At the beginning of the movie, Jessica, a frustrated playwright, is living in «deepest Bushwick,» recovering from a breakup with Damon (Lakeith Stanfield), and attempting to get her work staged by any theater in New York that will consider it (every rejection letter gets taped neatly on her wall).

After a successful run as a playwright in New York in the late 1920s and early 1930s, Sturges moved to Hollywood, where Paramount paid him a lavish $ 2,500 per week.

The film stars Julianne Moore as a high school English teacher whose life takes a turn when a former star student returns after failing as a playwright in New York City.

He's the head cleric at a sparsely attended tourist church in present - day upstate New York, and not - so - coincidentally shares his name with a left - wing German modernist playwright who Joseph Goebbels once deemed, during the rise of Nazism, «political enemy number one.»

She is a struggling playwright in New York with her only income coming from teaching children acting classes and the occasional catering gig.

An aspiring playwright in New York strikes up a friendshup with a guy while on the rebound from a break - up.

Playwright David Henry Hwang, Jn Ha, Director Julie Tamor and Clive Owen pose at the Opening Night After Party for»M Butterfly» on Broadway at Red Eye Grille on October 26, 2017 in New York City.

WTC VIEW was the first play from The New York International Fringe Festival to make the leap to the big screen in 2005, but playwright Brian Sloan resisted the temptation to fundamentally change the nature of his play by opening it up beyond the one apartment in which it takes place.

The Daily Show alum Jessica Williams stars as an aspiring playwright in New York City who is on the rebound.

A classic style New York romantic comedy with touches of classic screwball and a sprinkling of terrific cameos, the former escort reminisces to a reporter (Illeana Douglas) about her rags to riches fairy tale — a chain of events affecting the lives of everyone involved, including Arnold's wife Delta (Kathryn Hahn), leading man Seth (Rhys Ifans), playwright Joshua (Will Forte) and even Isabella's therapist, Jane (Jennifer Aniston).

Neil LaBute may be one of the most frequently produced playwrights in New York over the past decade, but the writer and film director has certainly endured his share of criticism and controversy.

In real life Daniels is no recluse, but he is a multitalented actor, musician and playwright who has eschewed the bright lights of Hollywood and New York for a home in Chelsea, Mich..

She, too, grew up in Sacramento and attended a Catholic school there, before escaping to the other side of the country, to Barnard College in New York, where she studied English and wanted to become a playwright.

Playwright Kenneth Lonergan became a successful screenwriter (Analyze This, Gangs of New York), and became a film director with 2000's You Can Count on Me.

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.

Finley, a New York - based playwright, knows how to write dialogue that tingles with menace even as it drips with self - awareness, but he also has a fluid compositional sense that keeps «Thoroughbreds» from lapsing into staginess.

«Thoroughbreds,» which premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival and opens in limited release March 9 from Focus Features, is the debut of 29 - year - old New York - based playwright turned filmmaker Cory Finley.

If you're wondering how to celebrate my personal favorite playwright of all time and are in the vicinity of Brooklyn, New York — BAM began a major theatrical event marking the 400th with the US Premiere of Shakespeare's history plays in March.

Meet Henry Harrison: former actor, failed but brilliant playwright, and a well - seasoned escort for New York City's women of means.

He is anything he sets his mind to in the creative world, even adding playwright, with a new play opening in New York later this year.

Sultan has had solo shows at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Jewish Museum (with playwright David Mamet) in New York.

Recommended reading In the latest issue of the New York Review of Books the novelist and playwright Darryl Pinckney writes about Kara Walker's recent exhibition at Sikkema Jenkins & Co..

Playwright Loften Mitchell and Romare Bearden became friends and artistic collaborators while both were social workers in the New York City Department of Welfare.

The playwright / director / artist's rise is enough to make anyone jealous; since 2010 alone, she has quickly grabbed the attention of Holland Cotter, Jerry Saltz, and Roberta Smith, and she's exhibited at Greater New York, Performa, Pace, Casey Kaplan, and Derek Eller Gallery, to name a few.

Previous winners of the Meadows Prize were Grammy - winning contemporary music ensemble eighth blackbird and New York - based public arts organization Creative Time (2010); playwright and performer Will Power and choreographer Shen Wei, artistic director of New York - based Shen Wei Dance Arts (2011); Tony - winning playwright and screenwriter Enda Walsh and choreographer Michael Keegan - Dolan, artistic director of Dublin - based Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre (2012); violist Nadia Sirota and socio - political artist Tania Bruguera (2013); and choreographer and founder of Urban Bush Women Jawole Willa Jo Zollar (2014).

The anthology is augmented by a series of extended interviews with leading figures in art and performance, including Tim Griffin of the Kitchen, New York; MoMA's Kathy Halbreich; choreographer and curator Ishmael Houston - Jones; artist William Kentridge; experimental playwright Young Jean Lee; and dancer and choreographer Yvonne Rainer.

Ted also serves on numerous other boards and committees, presently including: ArtsConnection, the Asian American Arts Alliance, the Center for West Park, the CUE Art Foundation, the Design Trust for Public Space, HB Studio and Playwright's Foundation, the International Studio and Curatorial Program, and the New York City Arts Coalition.

Luis Alfaro — Playwright — Los Angeles, CA Lileana Blain - Cruz — Theater Director — New York, NY Las Nietas de Nonó (Lydela Nonó, Michel Nonó)-- Performance Artists — Trujillo Alto, PR Tarell Alvin McCraney — Writer — Miami, FL My Barbarian (Malik Gaines, Jade Gordon, Alexandro Segade)-- Performance Art Collective — New York, NY, Los Angeles, CA Mary Kathryn Nagle — Playwright — Tulsa, OK

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Gregg Kreutz is an oil painter and playwright based in New York City.