Sentences with phrase «known playwright»

Earlier this week, a well - known playwright even invoked the spirit of David Bowie to criticise the EBacc policy in the Evening Standard.

That last one is the same name as the place some little known playwright was from.

Not exact matches

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

Her formula — no faith, no love, no life — implies that she, like the playwright, knows all about sensitive dependence on initial conditions.

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.

Asked the form of trance the President was in, the respected playwright said, «I don't know.

Presenting sad clowns and moneyed malcontents, a troublesome estate and class - based torment, Ivan Turgenev's 1848 play Fortune's Fool serves up a vintage feast of Russian rumination, despite it being one of the playwright's lesser - known works.

PLAYWRIGHT: No, we'll cut that scene.

The venue is known for championing Northern Irish playwrights and actors.

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

«Lincoln» begins with a battle sequence, but instead of the gut - punching, no - holds - barred nature of «Saving Private Ryan» (or even «Munich,» which, like «Lincoln,» was penned by playwright Tony Kushner), it feels half formed and safe.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS And Everything Is Going Fine (Unrated) Steven Soderbergh directs this documentary chronicling the career of the late Spalding Gray (1941 - 2004), an actor / playwright and performance artist known for his minimalist monologues.

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.

Alan Bennett is an author, playwright and screenwriter known for The History Boys and The Madness of King George (Oscar nominated for his script).

Isabella's subsequently wooed by the playwright, Joshua (Will Forte), after she tries out for Arnold's production without knowing the true identity of its director.

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

I know him mostly as a playwright, what was it like working with him?

Actress Laurie Metcalf and actor and playwright Tracy Letts have known each other for nearly 30 years.

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.

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).

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.

Long known for his acclaimed work as a playwright, McDonagh's twisted yet captivating characters and scenarios have also made for compelling film viewing, starting with his directorial debut «Six Shooter,» which earned an Academy Award in 2006 for Best Live - Action Short Film, and followed by In Bruges (shot by Eigil Bryld) and Seven Psychopaths.

Playwright John Pollono's screenplay really doesn't know the Hollywood rules.

And since I know you like Nicolas Roeg's films — especially Don't Look Now (1973) and Bad Timing (1980)-- you know Walkabout was directed by an Englishman with a screenplay by a British playwright, Edward Bond.

But Spielberg's achievement on this occasion is to fold into his own celluloid know - how an astonishing script by playwright Tony Kushner that animates the political process to a degree rarely encountered on screen: small wonder both men figure among the film's 12 Oscar nominations, the most of any movie this year.

He agreed to purchase the rights for Bong, who started writing the early drafts of the script and enlisting American playwright and screenwriter Kelly Masterson (Before the Devil Knows You're Dead) to work on the English dialogue.

Two white men brought the story to the screen: writer Dennis Foon, a playwright known for socially conscious children's plays, and longtime camera operator, but only second - time director Stephen Campanelli.

It conveys the claustrophobia and terror experienced by its soldier characters — English playwright R.C. Sheriff knew the war firsthand — but the film never quite overcomes a certain stodgy quality.

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.

Yet remarkably, this latest outing by Anglo - Irish playwright Martin McDonagh, best known to moviegoers for his 2008 picture In Bruges, lives up to its own hype.

Preminger's last film — a faithful adaptation of Graham Greene's dark, knowing novel about a British defector / putative spy (Nicol Williamson)-- has a good, smart script, inspired by the Kim Philby case, written by playwright Tom Stoppard.

WHILE WE»RE YOUNG Writer / Director: Noah Baumbach Starring: Ben Stiller, Naomi Watts, Adam Driver, Amanda Seyfried, Charles Grodin When writer / director Noah Baumbach (Frances Ha, The Squid and the Whale) uses a quote from playwright Henrik Ibsen as the setup for his story, I knew right then and there this was going to be up my alley.

Spartan It's no well - kept secret that David Mamet is my favorite playwright, and when he's penned and helmed a thriller as intense, twisty, and ambiguous as Spartan, you can most likely be sure I'll have something good to say about it.

Modo liceat vivere, est spes While there's life, there's hope - Heauton Timorumenos (The Self - Tormentor) by Publius Terentius Afer Comic playwright Publius Terentius Afer, known as Terence, died in 159 B.C. at about 30 years of age having written six plays, all of which have survived.

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).

There are well - known attorneys, preachers, and playwrights who grew up in poverty but had superior innate verbal wiring.

Reviewer: Anne Marie Kennedy The Bristol born, Galway based poet, author and playwright Pete Mullineaux knows his way confidently...

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...

Did You Know: Playwright Eugene O'Neill spent his summers in New London as a child.

Vanbrugh had no previous experience as an architect or designer - in fact, he was best known as a playwright.

It's not the most necessary thing in the world, but it'll fill in the blanks as to Devitt, the weird eye motif, the Four Witnesses, and the secret society known as The Playwright.

This group of portraits includes well - known figures such as playwright, actress, and author Alice Childress; the sociologist Horace R. Cayton, Jr.; the community activist Mercedes Arroyo; and the widely published academic Harold Cruse; alongside more anonymous individuals of a nurse, a ballet dancer, a taxi driver, a businessman, and a local kid who ran errands for Neel.

Four centuries have passed since William Shakespeare died; but how much do you really know about this enduring poet and playwright?

This group of portraits includes well - known figures such as playwright, actress, and author Alice Childress; the sociologist Horace R. Cayton, Jr.; the community activist Mercedes Arroyo; and the widely published academic Harold Cruse; alongside more anonymous individuals of a nurse, a ballet dancer, a taxi driver, a businessman, a local kid who ran errands for Neel, and other children and their families.

How could I resist learning that Harris knows both Tony Kushner, the playwright, and Robert Storr, the powerful critic and curator, especially when each comes across as one of the guys?

The selected portraits include cultural and political figures admired by Neel, among them playwright, actor, and author Alice Childress; the sociologist Horace R. Cayton, Jr., whose 1945 Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City is among the key academic studies of the African American urban experience in the early twentieth century; the community activist and cultural advocate Mercedes Arroyo; and the academic Harold Cruse, known for known for his widely - published academic book The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual (1967) and for teaching at LeRoi Jones's Black Arts Repertory Theatre / School in Harlem.

Feb. 7 18:30 Gillian Slovo, well know novelist, playwright and memoirist, in conversation with Tamar Garb, University College London, about how she has drawn upon personal history and experience to debate the politics of South Africa, including its Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Alice Neel, Uptown features both well known figures such as playwright, actress and author Alice Childress; sociologist Horace R. Clayton Jr.; and community activist Mercedes Arroyo, as well as anonymous individuals like children, families, a taxi driver, a ballet dancer, a nurse and a boy who ran errands for Neels.

: 7 February, 6:30 pm Gillian Slovo, well known novelist, playwright and memoirist, in conversation with Tamar Garb, University College London, about how she has drawn upon personal history and experience to debate the politics of South Africa, including its Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

+ Pulitzer prize - winning playwright, Edward Albee, best known for writing Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?