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jeopardy/2703_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  Number: 8. NEIL DOWN | In 1983 a Broadway theater was renamed for this man, the first time a living playwright was so honored | Neil Simon. right: Ken. Wrong:.
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Neil Simon - Wikipedia  ... running on Broadway at the same time, and in 1983 became the only living playwright to have a New York theatre, the Neil Simon Theatre, named in his honor...
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August Wilson - Wikipedia  August Wilson (April 27, 1945  October 2, 2005) was an American playwright whose work ... Frederick August Kittel, Jr. changed his name to August Wilson to honor his mother after ... Wilson's first play, Recycling, was performed for audiences in small theaters, schools ... So I went to look for a book on how to direct a play.
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Free Flashcards about PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS - StudyStack  IN 1983 A BROADWAY THEATER WAS RENAMED FOR THIS MAN, THE FIRST TIME A LIVING PLAYWRIGHT WAS SO HONORED, NEIL SIMON. "WE ARE...
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Theater Is to Be Renamed for a Dying Playwright - The New York ...  Sep 2, 2005 ... The words are those of August Wilson, a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for ... Mr. Wilson, 60, will be the first African-American for whom a Broadway theater is named. ... "The man is a major American playwright. ... In 2003, the Martin Beck Theater was renamed in honor of Al Hirschfeld, the caricaturist.
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jeopardy/2682_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS | In 1982 he played Broadway as Cassio to James Earl Jones' Othello (Frasier Crane would be impressed) | (Kelsey) Grammer.
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Six Characters in Search of an Author: Methuen Student Edition ...  Introducing Pirandello's device of the "theater within the theater," the play ... play, the first existentialist drama Luigi Pirandello's 1921 play "Six Characters in Search of an ... their story and become the author for whom they have been searching.
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Tennessee Williams & New Orleans, The City That Was His Muse ...  Mar 26, 2015 ... Playwright Tennessee Williams famously turned his life into art, and among his ... A Streetcar Named Desire, which earned him his first Pulitzer Prize for Drama. .... Former bartenders and a few patrons claim that the playwright drank ... critic and columnist Rex Reed who said he was known for devouring a...
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Discussing The American Ideals In The Post War Period English ...  Mar 23, 2015 ... Miller's play Death of a Salesman (1940's) shows that the play is clearly about ... Whereas, Mamet's play Glengarry Glen Ross (1980's) is named after a .... This has been Willy's fate; his failure was already set as a man at that...
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Green Grow the Lilacs Reviews Topanga plays411.com - Los Angeles  Pulitzer Prize-nominated play that inspired Rodgers and ... produced 1931 play that vied for the Pulitzer Prize and inspired the first mega-musical, ... the area known as Oklahoma became a state, incorporating the colorful vernacular of ... its Broadway premiere (with Lee Strasberg in the supporting role of Peddler), Rodgers...
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About the Playwright: The Glass Menagerie  Utah Shakespeare ...  His first big hit came in 1945 in Chicago with the opening of The Glass Menagerie. This success ... He won several awards including two Pulitzer Prizes for drama, four New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards, and one Tony Award for best play.
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Requiem for a Heavyweight | Samuel French  ... play and was first produced on Broadway in 1985 and revived to acclaim in 1996. John Lithgow starred in a magnificent performance as Mountain McClintock,...
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August Wilson - Wikipedia  August Wilson (April 27, 1945  October 2, 2005) was an American playwright whose work ... This article is about the late-20th-century writer. .... Wilson's first play, Recycling, was performed for audiences in small theaters, ... his entire ten-play cycle and his one-man show How I Learned What I Learned. .... Tony Award
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The Time of Your Life - Wikipedia  The Time of Your Life is a 1939 five-act play by American playwright William Saroyan. The play is the first drama to win both the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the...
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Winter Garden Theatre (1850) - Wikipedia  In 1854 it burned down and was replaced by The New York Theatre, which was renamed The Winter Garden Theatre by the impresario Dion Boucicault after extensive remodeling in 1859. The first theatre in New York City to bear the name The Winter Garden Theatre had a brief but ... Some of the leading actors and theatre managers of the 19th century worked...
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UH Mourns the Loss of World-Renowned Playwright, Distinguished ...  Sep 16, 2016 ... UH Mourns the Loss of World-Renowned Playwright, Distinguished Professor Edward ... Albee first joined the UH School of Theatre & Dance faculty in 1989. ... In 2005, he received a special Lifetime Achievement Tony Award.
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Buried Child - The Sam Shepard Web Site  Three-act play, winner of Pulitzer Prize for Drama, 1979. ... On April 30, 1996, the play was revived for a two-month run on Broadway following a ... The production, directed by Gary Sinise at the Brooks Atkinson Theater, was nominated for ... Mr. Shepard is an uncommon playwright and uncommonly gifted and he does not...
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Works for the Theater: 1956-1972 - University of Pittsburgh  Gore Vidal became a playwright somewhat by accident. ... In the late 1950s, he spent some time rewriting portions of the script for Ben-Hur, ... since 1972, although his 1960 hit The Best Man was revived on Broadway in 2000 for a ... He also revised and revived his early 1960s play On the March to the Sea for a series of...
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Theater Is to Be Renamed for a Dying Playwright - The New York ...  Sep 2, 2005 ... The plays document the African-American experience in the 20th ... The news of Mr. Wilson's cancer shocked many on Broadway, ... and renamed in 1981 in honor of Virginia M. Binger, the wife of James H. ... In 2003, the Martin Beck Theater was renamed in honor of Al .... First Draft  Elections  The Upshot.
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Amadeus  Broadway Play  Original | IBDB  Broadhurst Theatre, (12/17/1980 - 10/16/1983) ... Category: Play, Drama, Original, Broadway. ... Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
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STAGE - 'COME BACK, LITTLE SHEBA' - NYTimes.com  Jul 13, 1984 ... It remains to be seen whether the sentimental realism of his work ... Log In  Register Now  Help ... of William Inge, whose first Broadway hit, ''Come Back, Little Sheba ... During the 1950's, this playwright wrote one acclaimed play after another; his name was ritualistically linked with Tennessee Williams and...