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Freedomland (play)
''Freedomland'' is a 1998 comedy play written by Amy Freed. The plot revolves around the family reunion of the Underfingers gone wrong. It was finalist for the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Drama."Drama's Amy Freed a Pulitzer finalist" Stanford Report, April 15, 1998 ''Freedomland'' was produced at , running from December 16, 1998 to January 3, 1999. Directed by Howard Shalwitz, the cast featured Veanne Cox, |
South Coast Repertory
South Coast Repertory (SCR) is a professional theatre company located in Costa Mesa, California. South Coast Repertory was founded in 1964. It has three stages and presents plays from all eras. SCR producers new plays, Theatre for Young Audiences, and offers year-round programs in education and outreach. SCR is the home to the Pacific Playwrights Festival, an annual three-day new play festival. Background SCR's extensive new play development program, The Lab@SCR, consists of commissions, residencies, readings, and workshops, from which world premieres are produced each season. Among the plays commissioned and introduced at SCR are Donald Margulies' '' Sight Unseen'', and '' Brooklyn Boy''; Richard Greenberg's '' Three Days of Rain'' and '' The Violet Hour''; David Henry Hwang's '' Golden Child;'' and Amy Freed's '' The Beard of Avon''. These plays were commissioned and developed through the Pacific Playwrights Festival, an annual workshop and reading showcase for up to eight ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comedy
Comedy is a genre of dramatic works intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, film, stand-up comedy, television, radio, books, or any other entertainment medium. Origins Comedy originated in ancient Greece: in Athenian democracy, the public opinion of voters was influenced by political satire performed by comic poets in Ancient Greek theatre, theaters. The theatrical genre of Greek comedy can be described as a dramatic performance pitting two groups, ages, genders, or societies against each other in an amusing ''agon'' or conflict. Northrop Frye depicted these two opposing sides as a "Society of Youth" and a "Society of the Old". A revised view characterizes the essential agon of comedy as a struggle between a relatively powerless youth and the societal conventions posing obstacles to his hopes. In this struggle, the youth then becomes constrained by his lack of social authority, and is left with little choice but to resort to ruses which e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amy Freed
Amy Freed (born 1958) is an American playwright. Her play '' Freedomland'' was a finalist for the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Biography Early life Freed was born in Manhattan and grew up in The Bronx, Pittsburgh, Chicago, and Westchester County, New York. Her father, Richard, was an architect. Her mother is the actor, acting teacher and director Margaret Loft.Hurwitt, Robert"Amy Freed rebuilds an Ibsen play into ‘The Monster-Builder’"''San Francisco Chronicle'', November 2, 2015 She earned a degree in acting at Southern Methodist University. She spent several years in New York and then attended the American Conservatory Theater (ACT) in San Francisco, receiving an M.F.A.Niederkorn, William S"Profile of Amy Freed"''The New York Times'', November 16, 2003 While at ACT she wrote a play rather than a thesis for her degree. That play, ''Still Warm,'' is loosely based on the TV newswoman Jessica Savitch, and "became a precocious playwriting debut when it was produced at the C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1998 Pulitzer Prize
A listing of the Pulitzer Prize award winners for 1998: Journalism Letters * Biography or Autobiography ** '' Personal History'' by Katharine Graham (Alfred A. Knopf) * Fiction ** '' American Pastoral'' by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin) * History ** '' Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion'' by Edward Larson ( BasicBooks) * General Nonfiction ** '' Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies'' by Jared Diamond (W.W. Norton) * Poetry ** ''Black Zodiac'' by Charles Wright ( Farrar) * Drama ** '' How I Learned to Drive'' by ''Paula Vogel'' ( TCG) * Music ** '' String Quartet No. 2 (musica instrumentalis)'' by Aaron Jay Kernis ( Associated Music Publishers) Premiered on January 19, 1990, at Merkin Concert Hall, New York City, by The Lark Quartet. Special Awards and Citations * Special Citation ** ''George Gershwin'' - Awarded posthumously to George Gershwin, commemorating the centennial year of his birth, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pulitzer Prize For Drama
The Pulitzer Prize for Drama is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music. It is one of the original Pulitzers, for the program was inaugurated in 1917 with seven prizes, four of which were awarded that year."1917 Winners" The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-12-20. (No Drama prize was given, however, so that one was inaugurated in 1918, in a sense.) It recognizes a theatrical work staged in the U.S. during the preceding calendar year. Until 2007, eligibility for the Drama Prize ran from March 1 to March 2 to reflect the Broadway "season" rather than the calendar year that governed most other Pulitzer Prizes. The drama jury, which consists of one academic and four critics, attends plays in New York Cit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Off-Broadway
An off-Broadway theatre is any professional theatre venue in New York City with a seating capacity between 100 and 499, inclusive. These theatres are smaller than Broadway theatres, but larger than off-off-Broadway theatres, which seat fewer than 100. An "off-Broadway production" is a production of a play (theatre), play, musical theatre, musical, or revue that appears in such a venue and adheres to related trade union and other contracts. Some shows that premiere off-Broadway are subsequently produced on Broadway. History The term originally referred to any venue, and its productions, on a street intersecting Broadway (Manhattan), Broadway in Midtown Manhattan's Theater District, New York, Theater District, the hub of the American theatre industry. It later became defined by the League of Off-Broadway Theatres and Producers as a professional venue in Manhattan with a seating capacity of at least 100, but not more than 499, or a production that appears in such a venue and adhe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Playwrights Horizons
Playwrights Horizons is a not-for-profit American Off-Broadway theater located in New York City dedicated to the support and development of contemporary American playwrights, composers, and lyricists, and to the production of their new work. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Adam Greenfield and Managing Director Casey York, Playwrights Horizons encourages the new work of veteran writers while nurturing an emerging generation of theater artists. Writers are supported through every stage of their growth with a series of development programs: script and score evaluations, commissions, readings, musical theater workshops, Studio and Mainstage productions. History Playwrights Horizons was founded in 1971 at the Clark Center Y by Robert Moss, before moving to 42nd Street in 1977 where it was one of the original theaters that started Theater Row by converting adult entertainment venues into off Broadway theaters. The current building was built on the site of a former burles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Veanne Cox
Veanne Cox (born January 19, 1963) is an Emmy and Tony-nominated American stage and screen actress and former ballet dancer. Early life Cox was born in Norfolk, Virginia. She is a 1981 graduate of Manchester High School in Chesterfield, Virginia. She studied ballet at the Washington School of Ballet, acting at the Studio Theatre (Washington, D.C.) and voice at Catholic University of America. Career Her Broadway debut was in the Marvin Hamlisch musical ''Smile'' in 1986 as Sandra-Kay Macaffee. She appeared in the Roundabout Theatre revival of Stephen Sondheim's ''Company'' in 1995 as "Amy", for which she received a Tony Award nomination for Featured Actress in a Musical. She appeared in The Public Theater (2003) and the Broadway productions of '' Caroline, or Change'' (2004) as Rose Stopnick Gellman. Cox appeared in the made-for-television movie ''Cinderella'' (1997) as one of the stepsisters, and appeared in ''Erin Brockovich'' as Theresa Dallavale. She has appeared in epi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeffrey Donovan
Jeffrey Donovan (born May 11, 1968) is an American actor. He has played Michael Westen in the television series '' Burn Notice'', and appeared in films such as '' Hitch'', '' Believe in Me'', ''Changeling'', and '' Come Early Morning''. He played Robert F. Kennedy in Clint Eastwood's ''J. Edgar'' (2011) and his brother John F. Kennedy in Rob Reiner's '' LBJ'' (2016). He had a recurring role in the second season of the TV series '' Fargo'' (2015). From 2022 to 2023, he starred as NYPD Detective Frank Cosgrove on the revival of the NBC crime drama ''Law & Order''. He left the show before the 23rd season due to creative differences. Early life Donovan was born the middle of three boys to Nancy Matthews (1946–2010); his older brother was Michael Donovan (1965–2024) and his younger brother was Sean (1970-1987). Donovan’s mother raised her sons alone on welfare after their father abandoned the family. They moved several times before settling in Amesbury, Massachusetts.Donovan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heather Goldenhersh
Heather Goldenhersh is an American actress. She has appeared on Broadway, on television, and in feature films. Early life Goldenhersh was born in Chicago, Illinois and grew up in St. Louis. She has said that she is "half-Jewish by adoption on my father's side and Greek Orthodox (Christian) on my mother's side". She was a fundamentalist Christian for several years, but ultimately drifted away from the faith in her mid-20s. Personal life Goldenhersh is married to her ''Doubt'' co-star, Irish actor, Brían F. O'Byrne Brían Francis O'Byrne (born 16 May 1967) is an Irish actor who works and lives in the United States. He was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for his role in the miniseries '' Mildred Pierce'' (2011) and won a BAFTA TV Award for his role in .... Filmography Television Film Theatre Awards and nominations References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Goldenhersh, Heather American film actresses American television actresses Ame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Costa Mesa, California
Costa Mesa (; Spanish language, Spanish for "coastal tableland") is a city in Orange County, California, United States. Since its incorporation in 1953, the city has grown from a semi-rural farming community of 16,840 to an urban area including part of the South Coast Plaza–John Wayne Airport edge city, one of the region's largest commercial clusters, with an economy based on retail, commerce, and light manufacturing. The city is home to the two tallest skyscrapers in Orange County. The population was 111,918 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. History Members of the Tongva people, Tongva and Acjachemen nations long inhabited the area. The Tongva villages of Lupukngna, at least 3,000 years old, and the shared Tongva and Acjachemen village of Genga, California, Genga, at least 9,500 years old, were located in the area on the bluffs along the Santa Ana River. After the 1769 expedition of Gaspar de Portolà, a Spanish Empire, Spanish expedition led by Junípero Serra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simonson, Robert
Robert Simonson (born September 11, 1964) is an American journalist and author. Personal life Robert Simonson was born in Wisconsin; he has lived in Brooklyn since 1988. Career Robert Simonson began writing about cocktails, spirits and bars for ''The New York Times'' in 2009. He has also written frequently for '' Imbibe'', '' Whisky Advocate'', '' Saveur'', ''Food & Wine ''Food & Wine'' is an American monthly magazine published by Dotdash Meredith. It was founded in 1978 by Ariane and Michael Batterberry. It features recipes, cooking tips, travel information, restaurant reviews, chefs, wine pairings and sea ...'' and '' Lucky Peach''. Since 2017, he has been a contributing editor at '' Punch''. His book ''3-Ingredient Cocktails'' was nominated for a James Beard Award. His other writings have been nominated for a total of 10 Spirited Awards, which are awarded annually by Tales of the Cocktail. Prior to becoming a cocktail writer, he wrote about the theater for 15 years, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
