Sentences with phrase «as a playwright on»

Letts, a Steppenwolf Theatre Company member, has arguably built his reputation as a playwright on shock value: nudity, violence, and mad - scientist plotting.

During the first week of September the British Shakespeare Association hosted a conference in Yorkshire, England, to engage with the legacy of Shakespeare as a playwright on the 400th anniversary of his death.

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In speaking of «recent scholars who have used the new scholarship,» Miola kindly mentions my name as a «Jesuit who detects Jesuit influence on the playwright in The Catholicism of Shakespeare's Plays (1997) and other works.»

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.

As is often the way with brainy, moody teenagers, I had come to believe in the gospel according to Jack Kerouac, Dizzy Gillespie, and a hodgepodge of Japanese poets, absurdist playwrights, and existentialist philosophers whose works I'd found on adjacent shelves on the second floor of the public library.

Based on Clark's own experience of the Southall riots, which caused a political awakening in the playwright, the three separate flats» occupants - Ruth; Dennis and Anna; Wendy and Malcolm (and Linda)- are propelled forwards with a sense of inevitability as their personal relationships become increasingly strained.

Novelist, poet and playwright Kevin Craig, long known as KTC on Absolute Write, set some time aside for an interview, just days after release of his sixth

After graduating high school, he worked on a career as a playwright, only to be advised to be an actor by his professors.

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.

John Turturro is wonderfully twitchy as the titular playwright slumming it on scripts for wrestling pictures.

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.

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.

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

For anyone familiar with this playwright - director's work, it will come as no surprise that a very good - looking, buff guy will be outmatched by the lesbian on stage

Taichman cites the late playwright's drama as a «neglected masterpiece» on this side of the world; her goal with «Time» — as with «God of Vengeance» by way of «Indecent» — is to bring «that art back to life again and to bring attention to it so it's not lost to time.»

Alan Bennett recalls 25 «lucky» years as actor and playwright on productions from The Wind in the Willows to The History Boys and People

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.

Barnum also meets a playwright named Phillip Carlyle (Zac Efron), who he takes on as a partner.

An attendant yakker stitches together non-scene-specific snippets from director Beresford, producer Lili Zanuck, and playwright / screenwriter Alfred Uhry, who reveals that the story was based on his grandmother and her relationship to her driver and, later, sort of defends not telling anything about Hoke's life as not believing that his life was as dramatically interesting as Hoke and Daisy's life together.

(In English and Yiddish with subtitles) Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness (Unrated) Cinematic portrait of the legendary Jewish playwright (1859 - 1916) whose Yiddish tales about a pious milkman served as the basis for the Broadway musical «Fiddler on the Roof.»

He served as resident director for a theatre company in North Hollywood and Hollywood between 2005 - 2008, while developing his own theater company, Askew Theatre Company, focusing on workshops of new works from emerging Los Angeles playwrights.

Kevin Kline is the life of this rather precious coming of age film as Henry Harrison, a former playwright and full time «extra man» (an escort to the wealthy society widows who like a man on their arm for social events) who rents out a room in his walkup to make ends meet.

After establishing his reputation as a playwright, Martin McDonagh made a remarkably confident movie debut in 2004 directing the Oscar - winning, half - hour Six Shooter, set on a train in his native Ireland, where grieving widower Brendan Gleeson is confronted by a gun - toting psychopath.

Ullmann's experience as protégé to the cinema's most profound dramatist, and a talented cast (Jessica Chastain, Colin Farrell and Samantha Morton) raised early hopes she could find a fresh take on playwright August Strindberg's canonical 1888 play about the tortured relationship between a spoiled heiress and her family valet.

No other film on the list inspired such low expectations from me before viewing it, but celebrated Irish playwright Martin McDonagh has kick - started the played - out Brit gangster genre with a dose of existential neurosis, refreshingly languid pacing and ream upon ream of rapid - fire, ferociously literary dialogue that credits its audience with as much intelligence as its audience.

It all started on the festival's first day with «La La Land»» s Emma Stone, who stars in Damien Chazelle's dizzyingly lovely, boisterous musical as Mia, a starlet and playwright with big dreams.

The conference gathered academics and educators from around the world to discuss new ideas in literary and historical research around Shakespeare, as well as new strategies for teaching and learning of Shakespeare with a focus on his relevance as a playwright in secondary schooling.

And as if four confused lovers isn't enough to contend with on stage plus some very non-cooperative fairies - our poor director, Hamnet also has his playwright father to deal with!

In the book's foreword, playwright Paul Rudnick identifies one of his favorite pieces as Rakoff's essay on Stuart Little, aptly titled «The Love That Dare Not Squeak Its Name.»

When he learns of his assignment — to infiltrate a prison in Malta and rescue a double agent who has critical information about a planned assassination attempt on the Queen — he finds himself overwhelmed with uncertainty, only agreeing to the job after realizing that his training as a playwright has in fact prepared him well for the contretemps and complexity of power - broking:» «What if this were my play?»

Novelist, poet and playwright Kevin Craig, long known as KTC on Absolute Write, set some time aside for an interview, just days after release of his sixt...

There was, for example, her superintendent's son; a Vogue design director, Ron Kajiwara, who as a child was detained in a California internment camp; many children who knocked on her door when they found out she painted «Spanish kids»; and public figures like the actor and playwright Alice Childress.

NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — Eisa Davis — an acclaimed actress you might recognize as Heather Dunbar's Chief of Staff, Cynthia Driscoll, on House of Cards — is also an award - winning playwright and a formidable singer and songwriter.

This discussion will touch on themes such as the artist's Chino - Latino identity, his connection to street art, the context of AIDS, and his relationship with poet and playwright Miguel Piñero.

As part of the Armory's Artist Talk Series, the production on Friday, December 8 will be preceded by a separately ticketed conversation between Ariane Mnouchkine, Pulitzer prize - winning playwright Tony Kushner, and The New Yorker editor, David Remnick.

In many ways, Chicago - based artist Kerry James Marshall -LRB-»78 Fine Arts) has depicted the African American experience on canvas much as playwright August Wilson chronicled it for the theater.

Antony Gormley, Jez Butterworth, Mark Wallinger and other artists, playwrights and leading cultural figures look back on the experiences that inspired them as children and reflect on the dangers of marginalising the arts in schools

Phil Shaw will be represented by his hyperreal bookshelf prints, with examples from his London Underground series, as well as his new Shakespeare work, All the World's A Stage, which is also on display at The Globe over the Summer as part of the 400th anniversary celebrations of the playwright's death.

Strider became an important part of the New York avant garde, while Drexler went on to an award - winning career as playwright and novelist.

As part of its on - the - road season, the Alliance Theatre presents the world premieres of two one - act plays by playwright - in - residence Pearl Cleage at the Southwest Fulton Arts Center.

The show also highlights a key early influence on Flanagan's practice — the absurdist «Pataphysics» of French playwright and author Alfred Jarry (1873 - 1907), best summed up as «the science of imaginary solutions».

Poet, playwright, and recording artist Carl Hancock Rux will join Carrie Mae Weems as cohost on Friday and Saturday, and artists, poets, and writers Elizabeth Alexander, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Todd Gray, Aja Monet, and Sarah Lewis will punctuate the proceedings with poetry, performances, and readings of manifestos.

Diane Cassell is presented by playwright Richard Bean as the lone figure of integrity who has the courage to stand up to the climate science establishment, scientists who are cravenly manipulating their research to stay on the gravy train.

But Kuo always harbored dreams of being a musical playwright - as he explains on his blog:

When late at the Carlton I tarry, Where riches and luxury reign, When I sup con amore and trail clouds of glory Inspired by the best of champagne, I am then a great playwright — a Barrie — Three plays at a time on the boards — The royalties pour in and put more and more in My purse till it's fat as a lord's.

Consulted with colleagues and teachers to develop and construct monthly displays on various academic topics, such as playwrights, African American history, and the Revolutionary War

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