Sentences with phrase «stage plays starring»

It made me think of the 80s, when my parents watched filmed versions of British stage plays starring people like Ian Holm on PBS.

«Naming Number Two» (TBA): Toa Fraser's adaptation of her stage play stars the venerable Ruby Dee as the matriarch of a Fijian family who throws a feast to name her successor.

Not exact matches

On the bigger European stage, he plays a starring role as a founding father of Jonathan Israel's «radical enlightenment.»

i mean 2 - 3 rotation and wrapping the game up early and subbing extra 3 players would have been enough rest at this stage of the season after all, all our star players like koscienly, sanchez, ozil and cazorla completed and got more exhausted as we played with 10 men.

Yet, here I am, in the Zone again There I am, up on the stage Here I go, playing the star again There I go, turn the page

Say, here I am, in the Zone again There I am, up on the stage Here I go, playing the star again There I go, turn the page

Burst onto the scene in 2003 before playing a starring role in England's Euro 2004 campaign, scoring four times in the group stage after netting twice in the latter stages of qualifying.

Annoyingly for a number of Premier League clubs there are also stars who failed when they played for them, but have flourished on the international stage.

Ideally we would play this level of team in the group stage rather than the nobody teams we had to play like Koln, Bate, Red Star and then Ostersunds.

Not only will they see their favourite stars link - up with their international sides but it is also the chance to see potential arrivals play on the grandest stage of all.

Smolov is arguably the biggest star in the squad, and he has the X Factor needed to play at this stage.

Juventus» task in defeating Bayern Munich and advance into the next stage of UEFA Champions League just get harder as they will play without their star players this midweek.

The former Everton and England star, who could feature both in defence and in midfield during his playing career, posted his team of the group stage on social networking site Twitter.

I was perhaps ineligible to play the part of the eighth, Mrs Ebury - and also to star as the central figure in the play, Maddie, the Secretary to a Select Committee, who first appears on stage wearing «a low cut, sleeveless blouse, buttoned insecurely down the front; a wrap - around skirt, quite short; underneath, suspenders, not tights, and a waist - slip which is also pretty, silk and lace, with a slit... the knickers ought to be remembered for their colour - perhaps white silk with red lace trimmings.»

I get severe stage fright even when speaking in front of a small group of people (I blame it on my voice cracking on stage as the star of my 3rd grade play LOL.)

Malaysia Pargo Says She was Once «Married But Single» and Here's why... — When EURweb associate Loren LoRosa ran into «Basketball Wives of Los Angeles» star Malaysia Pargo on the red carpet of the «Married but Single» stage play in downtown Los Angeles, the recently divorced reality star was oozing with details...

Sigourney Weaver and Ben Kingsley star in the film adaptation of the stage play: a torturer becomes the victim of his previous captive.

Though inclined to stoutness — and baldness — from age 16 onward, Alexander had such a commanding stage presence that he was invariably cast as the star in school plays, in roles ranging from romantic leads to elderly character parts.

Krasinski's first stage experience was starring in a satirical high school play written and cast by B.J. Novak, now a writer and co-star on The Office.

There's an election coming up, and he's about to star on the National Theatre stage in «Everyman», a fifteenth - century morality play about man's powerlessness in the face of death.

He also had recurring roles on the television series Mad About You and Friends and starred in the drama Huff (2004 - 2006), playing the titular character, to critical acclaim, as well as appearing in the popular stage musical Spamalot.

But given that all these stars save for Dunn were at a grandfatherly stage of life age-wise when they were up for the award, sentiment probably played a larger part in their nabbing a statuette than did playing a dad.

Veteran French star Vincent Lindon earned prolonged applause as he took the stage to pick up the best actor award for Stéphane Brizé's The Measure of a Man, in which he plays a man crushed by his job as a supermarket security guard.

Imrie and Staunton could play these characters in their sleep, but both insist on keeping their eyes, ears and hearts as open and alive as if they were starring in a Pulitzer Prize winning stage play.

The A-Team star Dirk Benedict recently took the part in a stage production of 1962's introductory play Prescription Murder and House MD «s Hugh Laurie was reportedly in talks to front a new TV version.

When Spanish actress Elena Anaya felt that her talents gravitated toward a life on the stage and screen, the aspiring young actress spared precious little time in getting herself prepared for life in the limelight — a fact that no doubt played a part in her being named one of European Films» Shooting Stars during the 2004 European Film Promotion campaign.

Three years later, he earned widespread acclaim for his leading role in Patrice Leconte's Ridicule, in which he starred as an 18th century nobleman who learns to play a delicate and deadly game of wit at the court of Versailles.Born on Tahiti in 1958, Berling studied acting at a Parisian drama school located on la rue Blanche and made his stage debut in 1982.

Only the third film that the acclaimed actor has made as a director (after 2002's Antwone Fisher and his last, 2007's The Great Debaters), Washington certainly had familiarity with August Wilson's beloved Pulitzer Prize - winning material when he decided to bring it to the big screen; the actor won a Tony Award of his own for starring in the 2010 revival of the production, to go along with the play's Tony for Best Revival (and the many that it won during its first run on stage in 1987).

Actress Mary - Louise Parker is heading back to the New York stage to star in new Off Broadway play Heisenberg.

Really, though, all four men are pretty great actors and it would be interesting to see them join the Star Wars universe, but it's impossible to know what roles, if any, they'd be playing at this stage in the game.

What It Could Win: The movie is an adaptation of a 1983 August Wilson play, and the 2010 stage version — which also starred Denzel Washington and Viola Davis — earned Tony Awards for Best Revival of a Play, Best Actor and Best Actrplay, and the 2010 stage version — which also starred Denzel Washington and Viola Davis — earned Tony Awards for Best Revival of a Play, Best Actor and Best ActrPlay, Best Actor and Best Actress.

Supernatural thriller based on the 1983 novel by Susan Hill (also adaptated in a hit stage play), starring Harry Potter's Daniel Radcliffe....

The all - star cast will be taking the stage to sing songs from the musical with a live orchestra as the film plays on screen.

Damian Lewis, last seen on stage in Mamet's American Buffalo, now stars in another American classic: Edward Albee's disturbing 2002 play about an acclaimed architect who conceives a hopeless passion for a goat.

They're taught to look for success in the performing arts outside of making it big by characters played by Kelsey Grammer, Megan Mullally (who has a really nice moment in which her character tells why she doesn't perform anymore), Bebe Neuwirth, Charles S. Dutton, and Debbie Allen, actors who aren't huge movie stars but are quite successful in their own rights on TV, film, and stage.

I'm unsure how the film plays for those who know everything about the mythic beginnings of that enigmatic Swedish star, all the gossip surrounding her banishment from Hollywood (and her triumphant return), and who can trace the history of cinema by tracking the star's own move from small national markets to Hollywood to Europe and back again, all the while gracing the stage in Italy, France, the West End and Broadway.

Keaton stars as Riggan, a movie star best known for playing the super hero of the title, now trying to show his abilities as a serious Broadway stage performer.

It's believed to be the first play in Broadway history written, directed by and starring women — and African American women at that — and comes during a landmark year for diversity on the New York stage.

Producer David Livingstone came up with the idea for the picture after seeing Peter Quilter's play End Of The Rainbow, though the excellent screenplay (by Barry Levinson and Tom Edge) bears little resemblance to the stage piece that starred award - winning Tracie Bennett.

A Scot, he had small roles in pictures like «Riff - Raff,» «Shallow Grave,» «Braveheart» and «Trainspotting» and then in 1998, he starred in Ken Loach's «My Name Is Joe,» playing a recovering alcoholic just at that stage when he begins to believe that he might be able to trust himself.

Starring opposite Anton Yelchin, Cage plays Evan Lake, a veteran CIA agent who's forced to retire when he's found to be in the early stages of dementia.

At the time he was playing Hamlet opposite Vanessa's father Sir Michael Redgrave, cementing her destiny as one of the all time great stars of stage and screen from the earliest age.

«The Crown» and «Doctor Foster» star Victoria Hamilton also used her acceptance speech for her role in stage play «Albion» to commend the changes in the industry in response to the MeToo and Time's Up movements.

He also starred in as numerous British stage productions, including plays at the Royal National Theatre and the RSC.

Magic in the Moonlight stars Colin Firth as a stage magician who sets out to prove that a young medium, played by Emma Stone, is a fake.

Not only is Rockwell a star on screen, he has owned the stage in a number of theatrical productions, including his most recent performance in Sam Shepherd's Broadway play Fool For Love alongside Nina Arianda.

A remake of the 1974 Gambler film starring James Caan, the 2014 Gambler is a philosophical stage play disguised as a Mark Wahlberg crime drama vehicle.

The Footloose star recently signed on to play L. B. Jeffries, the wheelchair - bound photographer who is convinced he has witnessed a murder in a neighbouring apartment, and now Hamilton has signed on to appear in the Darko Tresnjak production, which will open at the Hartford Stage in Connecticut on 22 October (15).

Other than the announcement that the ending would change, the other changes from this stage to celluloid transition was casting; French Bob (played by Inglourious Basterds» Denis Menochet on the theatre stage) became Mexican Bob (Demian Bichir), James Remar «s part was re-cast with a bonafide movie star (who we won't discuss until after posting our spoiler warning), and Amber Tamblyn «s Daisy was recast with Jennifer Jason Leigh (whom, I will say I spotted in the audience of the live - read talking to Harvey Weinstein and I astutely wrote that she should be in a Tarantino film; hey readers, sometimes armchair casting actually happens!).

Kim Cattrall will be return to the London stage later this year, to star in a new play about a woman experiencing a mid-life crisis.