Sentences with phrase «playwright august»

In 2008 Wästberg even wrote a manifesto for his new company, titled Lamps for A Neanderthal Man, (pdf download here), in which he quotes the famous Swedish author and playwright August Strindberg: «The electric light will make people work themselves to death.»

In many ways, Chicago - based artist Kerry James Marshall -LRB-»78 Fine Arts) has depicted the African American experience on canvas much as playwright August Wilson chronicled it for the theater.

They looked back to Swedish playwright August Strindberg and German actor and dramatist Frank Wedekind as precursors of their dramaturgical experiments.

John Singleton, the youngest and first African American filmmaker to be nominated for an Academy Award ® for his work directing Boyz n the Hood, discusses his process, influences, and inspirations, from the work of acclaimed playwright August Wilson to pioneering directors Spike Lee and Federico Fellini.

Working with a screenplay by playwright August Wilson («Fences» is the third of ten plays written by Mr. Wilson which explore the life of Black America in the century of the 1900s.)

Ullmann's experience as protégé to the cinema's most profound dramatist, and a talented cast (Jessica Chastain, Colin Farrell and Samantha Morton) raised early hopes she could find a fresh take on playwright August Strindberg's canonical 1888 play about the tortured relationship between a spoiled heiress and her family valet.

The adaptation of Swedish playwright August Strindberg's masterpiece finds Miss Julie (Chastain) starting an affair with her father's valet Jean (Farrell), who is engaged to another servant (Samantha Morton).

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.

The famous prize - winning film version of playwright August Strindberg's dark, terror - filled theatrical classic about a sadomasochistic romance between a susceptible aristocrat (Anita Bork) and a brutal groom (Ulf Palme).

Now, after 14 years, Ullmann makes her comeback with a film adaptation of infamous Swedish playwright August Strindberg's Miss Julie.

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

Not exact matches

Albee had been arguably America's greatest living playwright after the deaths of Arthur Miller and August Wilson in 2005.

Years before his 2008 Pulitzer Prize - winning wacky - family drama, August: Osage County, playwright Tracy Letts debuted with this nasty 1993 play.

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»).

Under Pam MacKinnon's ruthlessly incisive direction, Tracy Letts and Amy Morton — playwright and star of the celebrated «August: Osage County» — reunite as a particularly well - matched George and Martha, whose epic battles are as dangerous as their need for each other is palpable.

The play also stars Tracy Letts, the playwright, of Killer Joe, Bug, and August: Osage County fame (you've seen him act on Homeland and he won the Tony recently for yet another revival of «Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf»).

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.

While this can mess with people's anxieties and expectations; the most important thing is that Ullmann is back, directing an adaptation of masterpiece Swedish play Miss Julie by August Strindberg, a playwright regarded as something of a demigod in Scandinavian culture.

Fences Rated PG - 13 for thematic elements, language and some suggestive references Rotten Tomatoes Score: 93 % Built off of the original Broadway production from playwright and screenwriter August Wilson, and starring basically the same cast, Fences tells the story of a black garbage collector in 1950s Pittsburgh (Denzel Washington) who boasts of the days he used to play ball in the Negro Leagues before the color barrier was broken, while his wife (Oscar - winner Viola Davis) and family struggle under his drinking, cheating and temper.

He had a meeting with Harvey Weinstein about something else when Weinstein casually mentioned that he should work with playwright / screenwriter Tracy Letts on «August.»

Since the premiere of his play «Killer Joe» in Chicago in 1993, actor and playwright Tracy Letts has become a major figure in American theater, winning the Pulitzer Prize in 2008 for his play «August: Osage County» and this year's Tony...

In addition, Abigail is starring in the thrillers Final Girl and Wicked Blood, both set to be released this year, and playwright Tracy Letts» family Drama August: Osage County (with Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts and Benedict Cumberbatch; out in December).

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.»

By the time August Wilson passed away in 2005, the Pulitzer Prize - winning playwright had completed a profound body of work that has left an... Read More

Titled August Wilson's American Century Cycle, the groundbreaking series brings together a stellar group of actors, directors and other talents — many of whom worked with Wilson — for live staged readings and recordings of the playwright's dramas at New York Public Radio's the Greene Space.

The story is from playwright Tracy Letts who won a Pulitzer for «August: Osage County» (a film version coming soon).

«August» playwright Tracy Letts is expected to adapt his own show, which follows a -LSB-...]

In addition to Steep, Hanks, and Rhys, The Post features Sarah Paulson (The People vs. OJ Simpson), Tracy Letts (actor and playwright of August: Osage County), Bradley Whitford (The West Wing), Bruce Greenwood (Star Trek), Carrie Coon (Fargo), Jesse Plemons (Breaking Bad), Michael Stuhlbarg (A Serious Man), Alison Brie (Community), and even an unexpected Mr. Show reunion with Bob Odenkirk (Better Call Saul) and David Cross (Arrested Development).

This is the first play written by the hot contemporary playwright Letts, author of August: Osage Country.

Larry Rivers and the exhibition in particular will discussed on Sunday, August 7, 2016 during «Brunch and Conversation on Larry Rivers» featuring David Cohen (Editor / Publisher of Artcritical) and Catherine Gropper (former student of Larry Rivers, artist and playwright).