Sentences with phrase «men as playwrights»

However, «women still lag far behind men as playwrights, composers, directors and designers.»

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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.

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.

Letts, a member of the Steppenwolf Theatre ensemble and a Pulitzer Prize winner for August: Osage County, launched his career as a playwright with Killer Joe, about a sadistic Dallas cop who moonlights as a hit man, and followed it with Bug, chronicling the romance between a lonely middle - aged woman and a paranoid schizophrenic who believes his skin is crawling with insects.

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.

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.

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.

Looking to legitimize and appeal to the high - brow crowd, Barnum recruits playwright Phillip Carlyle (Zac Efron) as a promotions man and appoints Swedish opera singer Jenny Lind (Rebecca Fergusson) to be his new headliner.

She also makes no secret of relationships she has had with other men, as well as her present husband, playwright Arthur Miller.

By the early 17th century the expression is clearly well in use as Jacobean playwright Thomas Middleton writes «Whereby that old moth - eaten proverb is verified, which says, «one mans meate, is another man's poyson»» (1604).

While Williams is remembered as one of our greatest playwrights and Laughlin as a visionary publisher, in those early years the two young men saw themselves first and foremost as poets.

As the playwright George Bernard Shaw put it: «The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.

Notable as a gay man who lived openly long before before the safety of general liberalism, his studio, The Factory, became a gathering place for intellectuals, drag queens, playwrights, bohemians, celebrities, and patrons.