Sentences with phrase «including playwright»

She will join a 40 - strong crew of artists and scientists, including playwright Suzan - Lori Parks, composer Jonathan Dove, architect and president of the Royal Institute of British Architects Sunand Prasad, poet Lemn Sissay, musicians Jarvis Cocker and Feist, and oceanographer Simon Boxall.

These pieces were employed at the opening in readings and performances by invited poets and musicians, including playwright Ntozake Shange.

The 2018 Artists in Residence — including playwright Branden Jacobs - Jenkins and performance artist Carmelita Tropicana; set designer and director Christine Jones; performance artists Malik Gaines and Alexandro Segade; choreographer Reggie Gray and his company the D.R.E.A.M. Ring; playwright Lynn Nottage; and installation and performance artist Tania Bruguera — will utilize the Armory's period rooms to develop their practice through the creation of new works.

He spent his evenings in Paris bistros with friends including playwright Samuel Beckett and artist Alberto Giacometti.

When the British magazine Prospect asked its readers to vote for England's leading public intellectual last summer, Dawkins emerged victorious atop a list that included the playwright Tom Stoppard, feminist Germaine Greer, historian Simon Schama, and a host of other seemingly more household names.

Audible will select recipients for grants in collaboration with an advisory board of distinguished talent in the theatre world, including playwrights Sir Tom Stoppard, David Henry Hwang and Lynn Nottage, artistic director Oskar Eustis, actress Annette Bening, and director Leigh Silverman.

Past winners include playwrights Craig Lucas and John Guare, composers Eve Beglarian and Vijay Iyer, and visual artist Sanford Biggers.

Not exact matches

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..

Prominent examples include Sir Winston Churchill, playwright William Shakespeare, and writers Jane Austen and Oscar Wilde.

But because Shakespeare rarely uses an actor whose sole role is to play the chorus, he avoids the danger of didacticism, and lets the wisdom embed itself in the action of the play (which is why so many of Shakespeare's characters, including even Iago, both seem and do not seem to express the playwright's viewpoint).

The stage directions indicate the time of the play as «Not too long ago,» and the playwrights» note — always included in any production's program — declares ominously, «It might have been yesterday.

Proctors and Capital Repertory Theatre will host 14 productions, including 10 musicals and the world premiere of a comedy by a local playwright, during their respective 2018 - 19 seasons.

Brooklyn Paper article on BP Adams congratulating local winners of the Pulitzer Prize, including Boerum Hill playwright Lynn Nottage, Flatlands poet Tyehimba Jess, and Fort Greene author Colson Whitehead.

In Media and Entertainment, her focus is on various programs to provide women opportunities in film and onstage, including a $ 5M fund for women filmmakers and playwrights.

Wiesenfeld, a conservative Democrat who worked briefly for the Pataki administration, is a controversial figure who has engaged in some high - profile verbal battles over the years, including an effort to block the playwright Tony Kushner from receiving an honorary degree.

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.

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.

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.

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 →

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.

That he manages to mix this all with black comedy and pungent social commentary furthers the appeal of whatever this talented playwright and filmmaker serves up, and that includes his previous two films, In Bruges (for which he got a writing Oscar nomination) and the slightly overcooked Seven Psychopaths.

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.

The film also weaves in lots of scenes that are meant to make us think that Barnum was the first 21st century - style «woke» white straight man in America — a goodhearted fellow who gave circus jobs to outcasts of one kind or another (talk about a big tent: the repertory company includes African - Americans, little people, giants, conjoined twins and a bearded lady), not just because they happened to possess certain talents or physical characteristics that Barnum could exploit (often by appealing to the majority's prurient interests or bigotries) but because the onetime poor boy Barnum sees himself in their striving, and wants to build a theatrical - carnival arts utopia in America's largest city with help from his new partner, rich kid turned playwright Philip Carlyle (Zac Efron).

The disc also includes commentary by director Shepard, extended interviews with Al Pacino (which overflows with love and friendship) and playwright Israel Horowitz, and two short films Cazale made in the sixties: The America Way (1962) and The Box (1969).

In addition to the family interviews and archival material, the film does include new interviews with two luminaries — playwright Tony Kushner and the late director Mike Nichols (who staged the somewhat controversial 2012 revival of Salesman starring Philip Seymour Hoffman as Willy Loman).

Rewritten by the playwright since its premiere at the Public Theater in 2014, the play moves to Second Stage's new Broadway flagship with a cast that includes Tom Skerritt and widespread internet crush object Armie Hammer (Call Me by Your Name).

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).

Movies adapted from his work include Lonelyhearts (1958) and The Day of the Locust (1975) 1915 One of the world's most celebrated playwrights, Arthur Miller, is born.

The Chicago - based playwright's other work includes the Pulitzer - prize winning «August: Osage County» (the movie version is set to start filming in September) as well as «Superior Donuts» and «Three Sisters.»

But four main roles are at the forefront, including ingénue Nina, older, fading actress Irina Arkadina, her playwright son Konstantin Treplev and writer Trigorin.

Others along for the ride include Ed Helms as Keaton and Goodman's jobless son and father of three who is undergoing a divorce; Olivia Wilde as their unlucky - in - love playwright daughter who prefers to hang out at the airport bar tossing back dirty martinis than spending one extra minute with the folks; and Anthony Mackie, who provides diversity as well as subtlety as an reclusive police officer who catches Tomei in the act of stealing a brooch as a gift for her sister by hiding it in her mouth.

Others spotted on the way in or out of the church included director - writer - producer Mike Nichols and wife Diane Sawyer, Blanchett's playwright husband Andrew Upton, Michelle Williams, Jake Gyllenhaal, Brian Dennehy, Ashley Olsen, John Slattery, Amy Adams, Billy Crudup, Ellen Burstyn, Louis CK, Anna Paquin, Marisa Tomei, Vanessa Redgrave, Spike Lee and Sam Rockwell.

Filmmaker Rebecca Miller mined family and mass - media archives — including photos, home movies, texts, and news coverage — for her intimate portrait of her dad, the playwright and author Arthur Miller that debuted in Telluride last weekend.

«The Audience»: Playwright Peter Morgan is behind a play called «The Audience,» in which Queen Elizabeth II, played by Helen Mirren, meets with 12 different historic prime ministers, including Thatcher, played by actress Haydn Gwynne.

Filmmaker and novelist Rebecca Miller — whose films include the Private Lives of Pippa Lee and Maggie's Plan — gets personal with this documentary about her father, the playwright behind the Crucible, Death of A Salesman, and other classics.

At his most lucid (a term applied loosely), Kilmer, with a touch of iconoclasm, imparts a little about Mamet's process, including the hyphenate playwright's use of his children as a barometer for material and preference for «traditional» filmmaking techniques.

The Irish novelist and playwright later wrote seminal works including The Importance Of Being Ernest and The Picture Of Dorian Gray.

Thorne started off as a playwright, and after some time with the Royal Court Theatre's Young Writers Programme, debuted his breakthrough play «When You Cure Me» at the Bush Theatre in London in 2005 (other ones have followed, including «Fanny and Faggot,» «Bunny,» «2 May 1997» and, most recently, a new version of «The Physicists «-RRB-.

While Spielberg, Streep, and Hanks presented some cause for nerves — as did an ensemble that includes Carrie Coon, Bob Odenkirk, Sarah Paulson, and Matthew Rhys — it was playwright and actor Tracy Letts, cast as Washington Post Company chairman Fritz Beebe, who was the larger concern of both Hannah and Singer.

The film's stable of voice actors reads like a Who's Who of Latin - American talent: the ensemble includes Edward James Olmos, Alfonso Arau, Ana Ofelia Murguia, Alanna Ubach and, in a small role, to my surprise and astonishment, playwright Octavio Solis, who was one of my teachers in high school back in Dallas.

Poets, playwrights and prose writers are all included.

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Resources include video interviews with the director, playwright and Meera Syal, as well as historical context and drama and english exercises.

Focusing on Genre, Playwright, Design and Technical, Stage Configuration and the history of the Globe, also including Drama Skills and techniques.

This bundle includes 11 ready - to - use Christopher Marlowe worksheets that are perfect for students to learn about Christopher Marlowe who was an English playwright, poet and translator who became influential during the Elizabethan era in the 16th century.

A poet, playwright, essayist, short - story writer, memoirist and novelist, Price bequeathed to us a body of work, including translations of the Gospels and other passages from the Bible, which explored intimately the fraught world of human relationships.

The youngest generation might know him as the lugubrious voice of Winnie - The - Pooh and friends in the BBC audio recordings from the 1990s; the next generation up are likely to know him as the playwright of The Madness of George III, or the more recent The History Boys (which won six Tonys including Best Play); and the generation above may admit to being old enough to have seen him perform with Dudley Moore, Peter Cook and Jonathan Miller in Beyond The Fringe (see sidebar).

You may recognize Jesse Eisenberg as an Academy Award - nominated actor from films such as The Social Network, but he is also an established playwright and author who has been featured in publications including the New Yorker and McSweeney's.

The BBC said its «Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell» mini-series would be presented in seven hourlong installments, adapted by Peter Harness (a screenwriter and playwright whose credits include «Wallander» and «Is Anybody There?»)

The general idea of that myth was a popular subject for Victorian era English playwrights, including one of Shaw's influences, W. S. Gilbert, who...