Sentences with phrase «such as playwright»

Alice Neel, Uptown features both well known figures such as playwright, actress and author Alice Childress; sociologist Horace R. Clayton Jr.; and community activist Mercedes Arroyo, as well as anonymous individuals like children, families, a taxi driver, a ballet dancer, a nurse and a boy who ran errands for Neels.

This group of portraits includes well - known figures such as playwright, actress, and author Alice Childress; the sociologist Horace R. Cayton, Jr.; the community activist Mercedes Arroyo; and the widely published academic Harold Cruse; alongside more anonymous individuals of a nurse, a ballet dancer, a taxi driver, a businessman, a local kid who ran errands for Neel, and other children and their families.

This group of portraits includes well - known figures such as playwright, actress, and author Alice Childress; the sociologist Horace R. Cayton, Jr.; the community activist Mercedes Arroyo; and the widely published academic Harold Cruse; alongside more anonymous individuals of a nurse, a ballet dancer, a taxi driver, a businessman, and a local kid who ran errands for Neel.

Consulted with colleagues and teachers to develop and construct monthly displays on various academic topics, such as playwrights, African American history, and the Revolutionary War

Not exact matches

The TV drama is the next big project for the prolific playwright behind modern political favourites such as This House, Ink and Labour of Love.

[198] In addition to novels, other literature arts such as Ghanaian theatre and poetry have also had a very good development and support at the national level with prominent Ghanaian playwrights and poets Joe de Graft and Efua Sutherland.

You could go and see an old favourite such as Footloose or experience a new and exciting play from playwrights around the world.

Indeed, it does feel less like the work of a vastly experienced filmmaker and more like the first draft of a novice playwright such as Mickey himself.

Internationally recognized for its annual Sundance Film Festival and its artistic development programs for directors, screenwriters, producers, film composers, playwrights and theatre artists, Sundance Institute has nurtured such projects as Born into Brothels, Trouble the Water, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Sin Nombre, Ain't Them Bodies Saints, An Inconvenient Truth, Spring Awakening, Light in the Piazza and Angels in America.

No other film on the list inspired such low expectations from me before viewing it, but celebrated Irish playwright Martin McDonagh has kick - started the played - out Brit gangster genre with a dose of existential neurosis, refreshingly languid pacing and ream upon ream of rapid - fire, ferociously literary dialogue that credits its audience with as much intelligence as its audience.

Internationally recognized for its annual Sundance Film Festival and its artistic development programs for directors, screenwriters, producers, film composers, playwrights and theatre artists, Sundance Institute has nurtured such projects as Born into Brothels, Trouble the Water, An Inconvenient Truth and Angels in America.

Along the way its colorful story takes in a host of characters, locations, and events, from the early Anglo - Saxon tribes; Alfred the Great's stubborn resistance to the Danes; the impact of the Norman invasion in 1066; the «arrival» of such masterpieces as Beowulf and The Canterbury Tales, not to mention a «coarse» playwright named William Shakespeare (who alone contributed 2,000 new words to the language!)

You may recognize Jesse Eisenberg as an Academy Award - nominated actor from films such as The Social Network, but he is also an established playwright and author who has been featured in publications including the New Yorker and McSweeney's.

You can expect major doublecrossing and bloodshed in this stellar espionage thriller — as well as real - life characters such as poet / playwright Bertolt «Bert» Brecht.

We may even think of Chicago and its cultural icons such as author Richard Wright and playwright Lorraine Hansberry.

This artistic vibe is still present today with its art fairs and museums dedicated to such inspirational Catalan artists and playwrights as Santiago Rusiñol and Antoni Gaudi (who built a summer residence there).

Smithee's monologue seems to appropriately inhabit the space that the playwright Samuel Beckett proposed with the dictum «Fail better,» of which Stephen Marche recently wrote, «To fail better, to fail gracefully and with composure, is so essential because there's no such thing as success.

This discussion will touch on themes such as the artist's Chino - Latino identity, his connection to street art, the context of AIDS, and his relationship with poet and playwright Miguel Piñero.

Influenced by literature and theatre, Byrne's work consistently references a range of sources, from popular magazines of the recent past to iconic Modernist playwrights such as Brecht, Beckett, and Sartre.

YBAs have been heavily criticized for their lack of craftsmanship and other artistic qualities, by numerous art critics as well as such luminaries as the composer Simon Rattle, and the playwright Tom Stoppard.