Sentences with phrase «playwright robert»

In fact, the playwright Robert Anderson was not far off when he, admittedly pessimistically, wrote:

Lines from playwright Robert Bolt's stirring script are frequently quoted in U.S. court opinions: «I know what's legal, not what's right.

Just before the opening of the show, Gormley spoke with his friend, experimental theater director and playwright Robert Wilson.

When we meet the long face of established Broadway playwright Robert Longfellow, played by first - time writer - director Martin Donovan, there are clear signs of trouble.

In keeping with playwright Robert Glaudini's off - broadway show, Hoffman casts the same actors; John Ortiz, Daphne Ruben - Vega and himself all reprise their roles.

I idealized my marriage as, in the words of playwright Robert Anderson, «a picnic without mosquitoes» («Notes of a Survivor» in The Patient, Death and the Family, edited by Stanley B. Troup and William A. Greene [Scribner's, 1974], p. 82).

Bitter by - election battles, gaffe - prone juniors, devious whips and one big game of «coalition chess» sounds more like the sober politics pages of a national broadsheet than a fun evening out, but first - time playwrights Robert Khan and Tom Salinsky remarkably manage to marry the two in their new political comedy, Coalition.

Not exact matches

It was rejected after a heated attack upon it by Robert E. Lee, prominent playwright and member of the Board of Managers.

One aspect of Kwame's career is the opportunity to work with new playwrights and help them mold their visions, he continues to do this with the youth at Robert W. Coleman Elementary School through the Holistic Life Foundation.

Here, she becomes the protagonist, with her forced to navigate her high society position, her own friendship with Defense Secretary Robert McNamara (an excellent Bruce Greenwood), and her misogynist board of directors, with only one of them unquestionably having her back through it all (another fine part for playwright / actor Tracy Letts).

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.

The screenplay written by Mackenzie («Young Adam»), Bash Doran («Boardwalk Empire»), James MacInnes, Mark Bomback and renowned Scottish playwright David Harrower takes place over the extraordinary historic year when Robert the Bruce fights to regain control having been crowned King of Scots, only to be defeated in a surprise attack and made an outlaw by the English King and his occupying forces.

Directed by American Splendor «s Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pucini, the comedy follows a New York playwright (Wiig) who's released into the care of her Jersey - trash mother (Annette Bening) following a suicide attempt.

The book also features interviews with costume designer Milena Canonero, composer Alexandre Desplat, lead actor Ralph Fiennes, production designer Adam Stockhausen, and cinematographer Robert Yeoman; essays by film critics Ali Arikan and Steven Boone, film theorist and historian David Bordwell, music critic Olivia Collette, and style and costume consultant Christopher Laverty; and an introduction by playwright Anne Washburn.

Video Portraits of Lady Gaga is the much talked about exhibition conceived and created by the multi-titled American sculptor, painter, stage director, playwright, choreographer, performer, and video artist Robert Wilson.

by Kostas Prapoglou Video Portraits of Lady Gaga is the much talked about exhibition conceived and created by the multi-titled American sculptor, painter, stage director, playwright, choreographer, performer, and video artist Robert Wilson.

The event is a collaboration with the Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies (FAPE) and features artist Carrie Mae Weems; actress and playwright Anna Deavere Smith, who is director of Anna Deavere Smith Works at the Aspen Institute; and Robert Storr, chairman of the FAPE Professional Fine Arts Committee and dean of the Yale School of Art.

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 show looks at queer networks that grew in the city around 10 artistic figures: the composer Leonard Bernstein; the photographers Robert Mapplethorpe and George Platt Lynes; the visual artists Andy Warhol, Richard Bruce Nugent, Harmony Hammond and Greer Lankton; the playwright, poet and novelist Mercedes de Acosta; the impresario Lincoln Kirstein; and the dancer - choreographer Bill T. Jones.

So did modernist painter Frank Stella, playwright Edward Albee, American artist Alice Aycock, American artist Jack Youngerman, and avant - garde director and artist Robert Wilson.

Saar, 87, joins a diverse list of MacDowell medalists that includes last year's winner, Stephen Sondheim, and Sonny Rollins, Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, Edgard Varese and Steve Reich among composers, playwright Edward Albee, architect I.M. Pei and writers Philip Roth, Thornton Wilder, Robert Frost, Joan Didion and Alice Munro.

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.

Performers: Dee Dorcas Beasnael Tymberly Canale Hye Young Chyun Robert M. Johanson Sibyl Kempson Matt Leabo Collaborators: Sahra Motalebi Suzanne Bocanegra Sarah Willis Production Assistance: Stephen McGroarty Sarah Scholl Molly Zimmelman 12 Shouts to the Ten Forgotten Heavens is a three - year iterative performance project by American playwright, director, and performer Sibyl Kempson with her theater company, 7 Daughters of Eve Thtr.

The elegant Algonquin Hotel, designed by Goldwin Starrett and opened in 1902, was a gathering place for famous writers, actors, editors, critics and playwrights — including Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, Alexander Woollcott, Harold Ross, Tallulah Bankhead and Harpo Marx — whose regular «Round Table» meetings (or vicious circle, since the members thrived on gossip and pranks) helped make the hotel even more famous.