Sentences with phrase «playwright whose»

The BBC said its «Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell» mini-series would be presented in seven hourlong installments, adapted by Peter Harness (a screenwriter and playwright whose credits include «Wallander» and «Is Anybody There?»)

This time she pursued a collaboration with Christine Angot, a playwright whose short script about a couple breaking up, Voilà l'enchai ̂nement, Denis directed in 2014.

Playwright whose masterpiece of marital disharmony, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

10:35 am — IFC — Barton Fink One of the Coen Brothers» most brilliant dark comedies (heh, I think I say that about all of their dark comedies, though), Barton Fink follows its title character, a New York playwright whose hit play brings him to the attention of Hollywood, where he goes to work for the movies.

Barton Fink is a playwright whose works are deeply rooted in artistic sentiments — so how fitting that he is invited to Hollywood to write a «wrestling picture», a feature length B movie for $ 1000 a week (amounting to nearly $ 14,000 today with inflation.)

Not exact matches

Yet all fiction writers (and playwrights and filmmakers, for that matter) must make similar imaginative leaps, and will be judged — as Styron has been judged — by how convincingly they portray the characters whose points of view they've done their best to assume.

But because Shakespeare rarely uses an actor whose sole role is to play the chorus, he avoids the danger of didacticism, and lets the wisdom embed itself in the action of the play (which is why so many of Shakespeare's characters, including even Iago, both seem and do not seem to express the playwright's viewpoint).

The actuality, William Shakespeare the playwright, had created the possibility of future actualities each of whom loved not just playwrights in general but specifically Shakespeare; this would be a similarity among those actualities, a similarity whose delineation was enabled by the actuality which was Shakespeare.

As is often the way with brainy, moody teenagers, I had come to believe in the gospel according to Jack Kerouac, Dizzy Gillespie, and a hodgepodge of Japanese poets, absurdist playwrights, and existentialist philosophers whose works I'd found on adjacent shelves on the second floor of the public library.

Playwright Gregory Burke's previous screenwriting credit was for» 71, Yann Demange's thriller whose background is Northern Ireland's Troubles, and though he and Padilha have made their names on full - throttle actioners, much of 7 Days in Entebbe is build - up.

But Orton's success takes him farther from Halliwell, whose response ended both his life and the life of the up - and - coming playwright.

With Constable Flood (Daniel Mays) helping him, Kildare narrows the suspects down to philosopher Karl Marx (Henry Goodman), stage star Dan (Douglas Booth), novelist George (Watkins) or playwright John (Sam Reid), whose actress wife Lizzie (Olivia Cooke) is on trial for poisoning him.

The film stars Julianne Moore as a high school English teacher whose life takes a turn when a former star student returns after failing as a playwright in New York City.

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 English Teacher (Unrated) Julianne Moore handles the titular role as a spinster with a pair of Siamese cats whose life is disrupted by the return to town of a former student (Michael Angarano) after failing as a playwright in the Big Apple.

Keith Huff, a Chicago - based playwright who has been on staff at «House of Cards» and whose «A Steady Rain» ran on Broadway in 2009, has written the second season.

The Sundance Institute is a non-profit arts organization, whose mission is to serve screenwriters, directors, playwrights, and other film and theater artists.

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

She also cruelly undermines Konstantin, her as - yet - unknown playwright son (a goofily hapless Billy Howle), whose youth provides a constantly unwelcome reminder of her own aging.

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

Wonder Wheel tells the story of four characters whose lives intertwine amid the hustle and bustle of the Coney Island amusement park in the 1950s: Ginny (Kate Winslet), a melancholy, emotionally volatile former actress now working as a waitress in a clam house; Humpty (Jim Belushi), Ginny's rough - hewn carousel operator husband; Mickey (Justin Timberlake), a handsome young life - guard who dreams of becoming a playwright; and Carolina (Juno Temple), Humpty's long - estranged daughter, who is now...

The movie is told largely in flashback, the remembrance of things past prompted by the answers that Peggy Ramsay (Vanessa Redgrave, silky and slightly mischievous), Orton's agent, gives to John Lahr (Wallace Shawn), whose 1978 biography of the playwright provided the title for Frears's film (which Alan Bennett scripted).

(In English and Yiddish with subtitles) Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness (Unrated) Cinematic portrait of the legendary Jewish playwright (1859 - 1916) whose Yiddish tales about a pious milkman served as the basis for the Broadway musical «Fiddler on the Roof.»

Filmmaker and novelist Rebecca Miller — whose films include the Private Lives of Pippa Lee and Maggie's Plan — gets personal with this documentary about her father, the playwright behind the Crucible, Death of A Salesman, and other classics.

Shepard, the Pulitzer Prize - winning playwright, Oscar - nominated actor and celebrated author whose plays chronicled the explosive fault lines of family and masculinity in the American

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

Over its pages the killer has scrawled a diary of his own crimes, providing Kildare with four suspects; novelist George Gissing, philosopher Karl Marx, music hall favourite Dan Leno (Douglas Booth) and playwright John Cree (Sam Reid), whose music hall star wife Elizabeth (Olivia Cooke) had just been imprisoned for his poisoning.

The film's screenplay is written by playwright Tom Stoppard, whose works like «Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead» and «Arcadia» are widely acclaimed; he also penned screenplays for Terry Gilliam's «Brazil,» John Madden's «Shakespeare In Love,» and Joe Wright's «Anna Karenina.»

It's there he is headed with his camera crew, a conscripted playwright (Adrien Brody) and the lovely Ann Darrow (Naomi Watts)-- a Vaudeville actress whose career has experienced a Depression - era slump.

Scott's eldest brother is theatre critic turned playwright Colin Murphy, whose play «Guaranteed» was produced last year to general acclaim.

Playwright and filmmaker Kenneth Lonergan examines grief and family dysfunction with a story about a small - town handyman, played by Casey Affleck, whose past has turned him into a sad, bitter character.

The Milwaukee Public Library's Wisconsin Writers Wall of Fame pays tribute to a spectrum of literary talents — novelists, poets, journalists, playwrights, historians — whose work has been influenced by their life and experiences in Wisconsin.

Ngugi wa Thiong» o is a Kenyan teacher, novelist, essayist, and playwright, whose writing spans the period from British colonialism to the current day.

The early lives of the famous are often fascinating, but none more so than that of the great playwright Tennessee Williams, whose family's desperate unhappiness seemingly guaranteed that he would find the fame The Glass Menagerie brought him a «catastrophe of success.»

Charlie Lovett is a writer, teacher, and playwright, whose plays for children have been seen in more than three thousand productions.

Together they will investigate the murder of an unknown writer whose finest work may have been plagiarized by Pulitzer Prize - winning Broadway playwright Avery Mallard, coincidentally -LRB-?)

(Playwright Mark Ravenhill, whose debut opera production, The Coronation of Poppea, has just opened at the King's Head theatre in London, will be guest speaker on the night.)

The book reveals how Chimes has found inspiration in the writings of Antonin Artaud, James Joyce, and especially Alfred Jarry, the iconoclastic playwright and novelist whose invented «' Pataphysics» ---- the «science of imaginary solutions» ---- has provided the artist with a seemingly inexhaustible font of imagery.

Other photographs include ones of Tennyson, the playwright and poet Henry Taylor, Cameron's niece and the mother of Virginia Woolf, Julia Jackson, and a melancholic young boy called Dèjatch Alámayou whose father, an Ethiopian emperor, killed himself rather than surrender to the British after defeat in battle in 1868.

The next year Alice Childress, a playwright, sits by the same window, serene and satisfied, in a blue dress whose ruches Neel renders with fat black lines.

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.

But when Serra moved to New York in the 1960s, he fell in with a freewheeling group of artists, dancers, playwrights and musicians whose experiments helped redefine what art could be.

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.

Theater artist, director, and playwright James Ijames (2015) received the Philadelphia Theatre Company McNally Play Award for White, a work «about an artist whose ambition leads him to an experiment in duplicity,» The Philadelphia Inquirer writes.

They're like the characters in a play whose lines were made up for them decades ago by the playwright, with only limited opportunity to ad lib.

Vaughan Pratt: They're like the characters in a play whose lines were made up for them decades ago by the playwright, with only limited opportunity to ad lib.

Broadway playwright Meredith Willson, whose most famous work is The Music Man, hailed from Mason City.

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.