Sentences with phrase «stage adaptation»

This piece examines the new stage adaptation of the film.

It works better here than in most such stage adaptations.

Those longing for visual theatrics or an upbeat family gathering flick should look elsewhere, but for stage adaptations, «August: Osage County» is the cream of the crop.

A reader's guide to the fall's big literary awards; The Women of Brewster Place novelist Gloria Naylor has died; London theater will present the first stage adaptation of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels; and other news.

Viola Davis steals the show in this faithful stage adaptation from director Denzel Washington.

Keira Knightley stars in a new stage adaptation of Emile Zola's novel about a woman in a loveless marriage whose life is upended by the arrival of her husband's boyhood friend.

After a year or so of countless stage adaptations ranging from a recitation of the novel in its entirety to a themed party and (just this week) a dance piece, Baz Luhrmann's celluloid version of The Great Gatsby has...

Parktown The National Children's Theatre presents stage adaptations of classics, contemporary plays and educational theatre to the acclaim of critics and joy of audiences.

To many playgoers, this hoary stage adaptation of Mrs. Henry Wood's 1861 novel represented the height of Victorian nonesuch.

Most recently, he directed the world - premiere stage adaptation of the THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST for the National Youth Theatre.

In the past 150 years, Victor Hugo's 1862 novel has spun into stage adaptations, radio dramas and more than 60 large and small - screen adaptations.

The newly opened stage adaptation, which celebrated its opening night Off - Broadway on Tuesday, is winning over critics and has secured a berth on Broadway.

If you've not seen The Tall Guy, you must, as any movie featuring an extensive series of sequences depicting a musical stage adaptation of The Elephant Man (called Elephant!)

Streep had made Silkwood, Heartburn, and Postcards from the Edge with him, while having already worked with Nichols on Primary Colors, had just paired with the director on Wit, another highly acclaimed stage adaptation for HBO.

British actress Natascha Mcelhone will revive Glenn Close's infamous Alex Forrest character in a new London stage adaptation of 1987 film Fatal...

«The Seagull» has seen countless stage adaptations over the years, including ballets, operas and two film adaptations — one directed by Sidney Lumet.

If you recognize that location as the home to Disney's The Lion King and Mary Poppins stage adaptations, you will be shocked to see the theatre in such disrepair in the middle of the»90s.

At ninety minutes, Mercurio's script feels like a solid stage adaptation rather than a filmic adaptation.

Another month, another literary or stage adaptation helmed by a veteran British theater director.

March 15, 2018 • The author's lawyer says a contract bars the producers of a high - profile stage adaptation from departing «in any manner» from the spirit of the classic novel.

Miller and company further proved how out of sync they were with the critical consensus by handing the Grand Prix (honorable mention, essentially) to French - Canadian director Xavier Dolan, whose stage adaptation It's Only The End Of The World earned some of the worst reviews of the fest.

The hot - ticket stage adaptation of that film marks his first time helming a new musical and is certain to attract some first - time theatergoers, as well.

The first English language stage adaptation of work by cult Spanish film director, Pedro Almodovar, received a rapturous welcome at the Old Vic tonight.

Other non-noir Premingers shown on his birthday are his two well - made stage adaptations: George Bernard Shaw's historical drama «Saint Joan» (1957), scripted by Greene, with Jean Seberg, Richard Widmark and Anton Walbrook at 10:45 a.m. (7:45 a.m.) and F. Hugh Herbert's controversial sex comedy «The Moon is Blue» (1953), with William Holden, Maggie McNamara and David Niven, at 3 p.m. (12 p.m.).

His plays include A Jersey Cantata, which was named one of the best new plays to debut in New Jersey in the 97 - 98 season, and an award - winning stage adaptation of The Advocate.

For more on books - to - musicals, see posts on Arthur Phillips» The Song is You and Lee Smith's and Jill McCorkle's short story stage adaptation.

Adler's international hit stage adaptation of the novel will premiere on Broadway in 2015 - 2016.

Weeks prior to her death, Lee approved the first stage adaptation outside of her native Monroeville.

In 2001 Enright directed his first stage adaptation of the infamous American porn film Debbie Does Dallas.

Ivo van Hove (National Theatre Live's «A View from the Bridge» and «Hedda Gabler») directs this new stage adaptation of Luchino Visconti's 1943 film.

In a recent article in the «New York Review of Books» on the television and stage adaptations of Hilary Mantel's historical novels «Wolf Hall» and «Bring up the Bodies,» the Irish critic Fintan O'Toole tries to explain the present popularity of a story about Henry VIII's obscure....

One important surprise went to Lauren Ridloff, a onetime Miss Deaf America and former sign - language tutor, who was nominated for her performance as Sarah Norman in the stage adaptation of «Children of a Lesser God.»

«Too Much Johnson» was originally intended to be used in conjunction with Welles» stage adaptation of an 1894 play by William Gillette at Welles» New York City playhouse, the Mercury Theatre.

Anything is fair game for a needless fight: comedy writer Graham Linehan (a contributor to The Day Today, as it happens), once complained about being invited on to discuss his stage adaptation of The Ladykillers, only to be confronted with a critic who'd essentially been told to argue that it was a crap idea and Linehan shouldn't have done it.

By the way, if you get an opportunity to see Gordon's stage adaptation, Re-Animator: The Musical, do so.

Also that year, he starred as Charlie Babbit in the stage adaptation of RAIN MAN in London's West End at the Apollo Theatre alongside Adam Godley.

Hoffman's directing debut of this stage adaptation is a mixed bag.

She was also fortunate in working at the National Theater with Peter Gill in his stage adaptation of Faulkner's AS I LAY DYING; to play Masha in THREE SISTERS at the Greenwich Theater directed by Elijah Moshinsky; and the lead in the LULU PLAYS by Wedekind at the Almeida Theater.

After a number of films, TV series and stage adaptations, Arthur Ransome's beloved 1930 novel gets an all - new movie version.

All animals may be equal, but some animals are more equal than others in this stage adaptation of George Orwell's presciently cautionary take on the dark side of human nature, as reflected in the noble (if ultimately unrealized) intentions of a group of animals who overthrow the humans and seize control of their farm.

The stage adaptation of Groundhog Day and the 9/11 musical, Come From Away, rounded out the Best Musical noms.

The third in a series of stage adaptations the filmmaker...

His sister Emily (Kerris Dorsey), a theatrical 8th grader, wakes up with a bad cold on the day that her school's new play, for some reason a stage adaptation of Disney's Peter Pan, is to debut.

This young century alone has seen Finding Neverland dramatizing the play's creation, no fewer than nine stage adaptations, NBC's live television special, Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson's Starcatchers series of bestselling prequel novels, the major 2003 filming, and the Syfy miniseries Neverland.

The third in a series of stage adaptations the filmmaker undertook in this period (Plenty and Roxanne), the film...

Sequel, reboot, stage adaptation, sequel, trilogy, sequel — that's this week's Movie News Cheat Sheet in...

Scriptwriter Sidney Howard wrote the screenplay based upon his 1934 stage adaptation of Sinclair Lewis» 1929 novel of the same name.