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Gwyneth Paltrow and Joseph Fiennes play Shakespeare and his love Viola in this witty look at the playwright's life, but it's supporting cast members like Judi Dench as Queen Elizabeth I who steal the show.

While making love to his latest young girlfriend (Amanda Peet) at her playwright mother (Diane Keaton) beach house in the Hamptons, «Mom» reluctantly tends to the cradle robber.

Steve Mirsky here, and welcome back for part 2 of Dan Falk talking about his book The Science of Shakespeare: A New Look at the Playwright's Universe.

From The Science of Shakespeare: A New Look at the Playwright's Universe, by Dan Falk.

Not exact matches

In 2005, acclaimed playwright August Wilson died at 60 after a battle with cancer, but he left a staggering body of work behind.

Albee assistant Jackob Holder says the playwright died Friday at his home on Long Island.

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

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

She's an actor / playwright / freelance writer, «but something about saying that out loud at parties made me blush,» she confesses.

Mark Leiren - Young is a Vancouver screenwriter, playwright and journalist, and files his «Fast Rewind» summary of the news for The Tyee at the end of every month.

Plays are play, as Walter Ong observes, except for the playwright and perhaps some of the paying public.5 Moreover, while most would say that tennis and drama provide at least the occasion for play (even if some tennis players, for example, are not actually «playing»), the list of possible play activities is much broader than we often imagine, including much of life - more, in any case, than just tennis, reading, dancing, etc..

The Italian Nobel prize - winning playwright Dario Fo, author of Accidental Death of an Anarchist, has traced Grillo's emergence to a tradition going back in Italian culture to medieval times — of the giullari, or «jugglers,» strolling comics who went around trading in sarcasm, irony, ridicule, and stories at the expense of the great and powerful.

The newest work from Chicago playwright Nambi E. Kelley, «Jabari Dreams of Freedom» at Chicago Children's Theatre has a strong message — but is delivered simply.

Dr. Dorothy Marcic is a playwright, professor at Columbia University, and a former professor at Vanderbilt University's Owen Graduate School of Management.

Melinda is a Fellow and Playwright - in - Residence at the Huntington Theater Company, and her work has appeared on stages throughout New England and far beyond.

He told Ghanaweb on the sidelines of the premier of «Damaged Goods», a play by renowned playwright and motivational speaker, James Ebo Whyte at the National Theatre in Accra, that he is always inspired by the achievements of Ghana's longest serving president.

The London born man, now a resident of Brighton, became political at a young age, and up until recently, considered himself an activist first, playwright second.

[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.

Waste, penned by British playwright Harley Granville Barker in 1906 before being revised in 1926, is set against a hung parliament with the incumbent administration facing defeat at its upcoming Queen's Speech — while an expectant Tory party waits with bated breath to seize back control.

Nigerian playwright, poet and Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka made a surprise appearance at the event.

And Usher isn't quite alone; several mainstream Shakespeare scholars are at least willing to admit that the playwright was influenced by Tycho's astronomy.

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.

One aspect of Kwame's career is the opportunity to work with new playwrights and help them mold their visions, he continues to do this with the youth at Robert W. Coleman Elementary School through the Holistic Life Foundation.

Marivaux's stories — at least in my mind — never really arise as more than a mere trifle, making them pale in comparison to the works of other classic playwrights like Shakespeare, Marlowe, and Molière.

At the same time, Jerry flirts with Oona O'Neill (Zoey Deutch), the debutante daughter of playwright Eugene O'Neill.

It was not until he turned to playwright Tony Kushner, who earlier wrote «Munich» at Spielberg's behest, that he began to hear Lincoln's voice, perhaps a little too fulsomely; Kushner's first draft was more than 500 pages, nearly five times the customary length of a screenplay.

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.

Brown's budding acting career began in March 2010, at the age of five years old when he had the opportunity to work with local Chicago independent playwrights and artists in several theatrical productions.

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.

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).

The icing on the cake is Martin McDonagh, the acclaimed Irish playwright who took a winning stab at writing and directing for the screen in 2008's In Bruges.

Margo (Gwyneth Paltrow) is an award - winning playwright at the age of 12; one of her brothers is a teenage real - estate mogul; another a star tennis player.

Romance and politics, as it turns out, have a lot to do with each other, especially if you're a British playwright at the top of his game.

She just broke up with her boyfriend Damon (Lakeith Stanfield, great here and in the also - at - Sundance «Crown Heights») and she gets daily rejection letters in her attempts to become a playwright.

Philip Seymour Hoffman was remembered by his writer friend Stephen Adly Guirgis on stage at the Steinberg Playwright Awards this week...

The script — by Scottish playwright - turned - screenwriter Gregory Burke (Black Watch,» 71)-- does a decent job in this respect of laying out the complex realities of a situation in which all participants are, to some extent, prisoners of ideology, while at the same time attempting to give all sides their own point of view.

The movie, to its credit, captures all of this — particularly the silent interaction between her and Fritz Beebe, a legend at the Post, played by playwright Tracy Letts («August: Osage County»).

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 →

It's noteworthy for some electrifying performances, transplanted from the stage — playwright Mart Crowley adapted his own hit play — and location footage shot at Julius, now the oldest surviving gay bar in Manhattan.

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.»

The Incredible Jessica James (Netflix, July 28th) Brooklynite playwright Jessica James (Jessica Williams) is at a romantic impasse: She split up with her boyfriend (Lakeith Stanfield) and can't stomach the idea of another shitty Tinder date, but being single doesn't suit her.

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.

Otherwise, the plot revolves around the unlikely financial arrangement secretly struck between rebellious, aristocrat de Vere (Rhys Ifans) and alcoholic commoner Shakespeare (Rafe Spall) at a time when the former was a prolific, closet playwright while the latter was a struggling actor.

Keith Huff, a Chicago - based playwright who has been on staff at «House of Cards» and whose «A Steady Rain» ran on Broadway in 2009, has written the second season.

In Wonder Wheel, four peoples» lives intertwine amid the hustle and bustle of the Coney Island amusement park in the 1950s: Ginny, an emotionally volatile former actress now working as a waitress in a clam house; Humpty, Ginny's rough - hewn carousel operator husband; Mickey, a handsome young lifeguard who dreams of becoming a playwright; and Carolina, Humpty's long - estranged daughter, who is now hiding out from gangsters at her father's apartment.

Actor Casey Affleck, playwright Lila Feinberg and Head of Amazon Studios Roy Price attend the Amazon Studios Oscar Celebration at Delilah on February 26, 2017 in West Hollywood, California.

Mark Ruffalo once said of Lonergan, affectionately, that the playwright was only playing at being humble.

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.

Her debut feature The Arbor was a mesmerising look at the life of playwright Andrea Dunbar, blurring the line between documentary and performance.