Sentences with phrase «late playwright»

It begins with a document entitled Titled 2011 that was prepared during the lead - up to the show and chronicles the lengthy process of locating Gunilla Weiss, the widow and collaborator to the late playwright Peter Weiss, and the correspondence that followed.

Day - Lewis wasn't seen on screen again until three years later, in «The Ballad of Jack and Rose,» which happened to be scripted and directed by his wife, Rebecca Miller, the daughter of the late playwright Arthur Miller.

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.»

In this movie, ostensibly about the late playwright Andrea Dunbar, it has actors lip - synching testimony given by friends and relatives.

Later playwrights began writing drama in prose forms.

Not exact matches

Indeed, ace playwright, the late Ola Rotimi, was so fascinated by this tortoise quip that he used it to anchor the tragedy of Kurunmi, the ill - fated Aare Ona Kakanfo and Ijaye warlord, in his tragic play, Kurunmi.

Playwright Peter Shaffer and late comic Eric Morecambe were also among the young men conscripted to Britain's coalfields.

Nigerians among whom were friends, associates and ex-student of the late actor, playwright, culture activist and scholar, Professor Akinwunmi Isola who passed away on Saturday have...

The son of an amateur playwright, he sang professionally as a boy and later acted in his father's adaptations of Thomas Hardy's novels.

The Arbor is a biopic of the late Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar, a single mother with three children by three different partners.

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.

Written and directed by playwright Cory Finley, the film stars Olivia Cooke and Anya Taylor - Joy joined by the late Anton Yelchin.

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.

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.

A two - film partnership with playwright Hanif Kureishi later yielded My Beautiful Laundrette and Sammy and Rosie Get Laid, and they, along with the magnificent Joe Orton biopic Prick Up Your Ears, brought Frears to the attention of Hollywood, where he's since had his share of ups (Dangerous Liaisons, The Grifters, and High Fidelity) and downs (Hero and Mary Reilly, high - profile flops made back - to - back for the same studio).

Its frantic entrances and exits — the perpetually harried Hélène more than once needlessly announces that she will «go first» — prefigure those in Resnais's several late adaptations of Alan Ayckbourn's comedies, which the British playwright greatly admires, once commenting that the director «works in a very theatrical way.»

An Anglo - Irish playwright with multiple Tony Award nominations, McDonagh came to filmmaking relatively late.

Phyllis Nagy is a successful playwright, screenwriter and director whose latest screenplay is Carol.

A late cameo by Robert Wagner as a foul - mouthed pimp comes off with the same impact that a bigoted Betty White comes off with in Bringing Down the House (sour, unfunny, sad); the rest of it plays like an over-priced community theatre production of a homegrown playwright's first script.

A few years later in 1859, playwright Dion Boucicault halved the calculation and doubled the drama creating THE OCTOROON, a play about a beautiful woman named Zoe (the touching Shawna M. James) who is 1/8 black and the illegitimate daughter of the plantation owner.

Two films hardly make a trend, but take his latest film and you've got to sit up and take notice: The man is taking some risks with genre and succeeding in doing things a little different with his collaboration with playwright Tracey Letts.

There's certainly no disputing that one of the breakout stars of Cannes this year is Antonythasan Jesuthasan, a former child soldier with the Sri Lankan militant group Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, who fled the country in the late 1980s and eventually made his way to France, where he became an acclaimed playwright, essayist and novelist.

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).

While it's not unusual for a scripter to have a long, successful life (after all wrote this forty - four years ago and he's still going strong), but considering that «Strawberry» was a big - budget movie about the late sixties riots at Columbia University, one that showed radical students breaking windows and, I believe, smoking the dean's cigars, that seems too much in the mainstream for the prolific playwright.

Red hot playwright Chris Urch, whose latest play The Rolling Stone debuted in London to ecstatic reviews, is writing the project.

Late in the film, while watching a production of Richard III, one of Ben Jonson's playwright colleagues asks another, «How does it end?»

As for his scene - stealing turn as Nottingham opposite Kevin Costner in the 1991 Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, he revealed how the late, great playwright Peter Barnes helped him with home lines scribbled over in Leicester Square's Pizza Express.

There's only one Martin McDonagh as is proven anew by Seven Psychopaths, the latest from the London - born Irish playwright and erstwhile wunderkind who in recent years has transferred his brand of casual and often comic cruelty to the screen.

This goal is realized when he meets Phillip Carlyle (Zac Efron), a playwright - turned - businessman who agrees to partner with Barnum and later becomes transfixed by trapeze artist Anne Wheeler (Zendaya).

«More canned misanthropy from playwright Neil LaBute, who poisoned arthouse cinemas in the late 1990's with toxic stunts like In The Company Of Men and Your Friends And Neighbors.

Scripted by the playwright Matt Charman (and later revised by the Coen Brothers), Bridge of Spies follows Donovan as he defends Abel (Mark Rylance) up to the Supreme Court, and later negotiates a prisoner swap in East Berlin after an American Air Force pilot, Francis Gary Powers (Austin Stowell), is shot down behind Soviet lines.

Written and directed by playwright Biyi Bandele, it tells the story of two well - to - do Nigerian sisters (Thandie Newton and Anika Noni Rose), and the men they love (respectively, Ejiofor's radically - inclined professor and Joseph Mawle «s British ex-pat), as they're swept into the struggle for independence, and the ensuing Nigerian - Biafran War in the late 1960s.

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.

The new staging of McNally's 1982 backstage comedy centers on a playwright (Broderick) waiting for his latest batch of reviews with a TV star (Lane), a producer (Mullally), his lead actress (Channing), his director (Grint) and a critic (Abraham).

Joanna Lumley plays Viola, David Threlfall is Prospero and Daniel Mays sees a dagger before him in our latest set of videos to mark the 400th anniversary of the playwright's death

In Bruges is written and directed by Irish / British playwright Martin McDonagh, whose latest movie, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, is receiving rave reviews.

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

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...

More a footnote to a revered career than an epic swansong, the late Alain Resnais final film takes him back to the works of Alan Ayckbourn for a third stab at adapting that most English of playwrights.

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.

One of Vikander's repeat collaborators is the Swedish playwright and film - maker Lisa Langseth, who directed her in her debut film role in 2009's Pure; they reteamed four years later for Hotell, a darkly comic group - therapy study that currently marks the actor's last non-English-speaking role.

An honors playwright student at Brown University, John interned on «Late Night with Conan O'Brien.»

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.

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..

This late 20th century linocut on paper is by Northern California artist, poet, and playwright Gwen Stone (1913 - 2007).

Formerly a playwright she — co-founded the Westbeth Playwrights Feminist Collective, one of the first feminist theater groups in the USA, and later attended Dan Rice's master classes in painting.

Past recipients include Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Oscar Hijuelos, multiple Obie - winning playwright María Irene Fornés, visual artists José Bedia and Teresita Fernández, photographers Andrés Serrano and María Martínez Cañas, the late Felix Gonzalez - Torres, whose work represented the United States at the 52nd Venice Biennale and Guillermo Calzadilla, who together with Jennifer Allora represented the United States at the 54th Venice Biennale, architect and city planner Andres Duany, installation artist Teresita Fernandez, writer Cristina Garcia, sculptor Maria Elena Gonzalez, and composers Julián Orbón, Tania León and Orlando García.

Of Emin's exhibit - which later sold for # 150,000 - playwright Tom Stoppard remarked: «It is but a hop, skip and jump to Tracey's knickers.»

Esopus 21 includes artists» projects by Stephen Eichhorn, Penny McCarthy, Thomas Nozkowski and Leslie Wayne; an essay on the design of the 9/11 Memorial by architect Michael Arad; poems by Chantal Bizzini; a new installment of the «Modern Artifacts» series, copresented with the Museum of Modern Art Archives, and featuring documents related to the never - published second issue of Possibilities (edited by Robert Motherwell and Harold Rosenberg); photographer Dennis Stock's images of the 1954 world premiere of Judy Garland's A Star Is Born; an interview with playwright / filmmaker Kenneth Lonergan relating to his childhood fascination with science fiction; pages from the late Austrian artist Otto Meuhl's sketchbook featuring drawings based on Cézanne paintings; and several perspectives on the African art collective Invisible Borders: an essay by Emmanuel Iduma accompanied by a photographic portfolio; and a downloadable audio compilation of music and sounds curated by Emeka Okereke that relates to the collective's 2012 road trip.

Entitled «Grey Ash» this exhibition references an earlier body of work created by Moualla in 1997 and which was dedicated to the late Syrian playwright Saadallah Wannous, who passed away in the same year.