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Ileen Getz
Ileen Getz (August 7, 1961 – August 4, 2005) was an American actress, most recognized for her role as Dr. Judith Draper in the television series ''3rd Rock from the Sun''. Professional life Getz began working professionally at The Practical Theatre Company while still in college. After graduating from Northwestern University, she became a company member of the Econo-Art Theatre Company, and worked in other Chicago, Illinois, theaters. She began her television work in 1995, with appearances on shows such as ''Law & Order'' and ''Seinfeld''. In 1996, Getz became a recurring cast member on ''3rd Rock from the Sun'', playing a professor of women's studies with no personality. Her film career included minor roles in such films as ''Celebrity'', ''Lovely and Amazing'', ''The Station Agent'', ''Changing Lanes'', and the posthumously-released ''Friends with Money'' and ''Falling for Grace''. In 1992, Getz made her Broadway debut in '' Jake’s Women'' as an understudy. She also appea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bristol, Pennsylvania
Bristol is a borough (Pennsylvania), borough in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is located northeast of Center City, Philadelphia, Center City in Philadelphia opposite Burlington, New Jersey, on the Delaware River. Bristol was settled in 1681 and first incorporated in 1720. After 1834, it became very important to the development of the Technological and industrial history of the United States, American Industrial Revolution as the terminus city of the Delaware Canal, providing Delaware Valley, greater Philadelphia with the day's high quality anthracite coal from the Lehigh Canal via Easton, Pennsylvania, Easton. The canal and a short trip on the Delaware River also gave the town access to the mineral resources available in Connecticut, New Jersey, and New York (state), New York via each of the Morris Canal, the Delaware and Hudson Canal, and the Delaware and Raritan Canal, and connected the community to those markets and trade from New York City. Although its ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broadway Theatre
Broadway theatre,Although ''theater'' is generally the spelling for this common noun in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences#-re, -er, American and British English spelling differences), many of the List of Broadway theaters, extant or closed Broadway venues use or used the spelling ''Theatre'' as the proper noun in their names. Many performers and trade groups for live dramatic presentations also use the spelling ''theatre''. or Broadway, is a theatre genre that consists of the theatrical performances presented in 41 professional Theater (structure), theaters, each with 500 or more seats, in the Theater District, Manhattan, Theater District and Lincoln Center along Broadway (Manhattan), Broadway, in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Broadway and London's West End theatre, West End together represent the highest commercial level of live theater in the English-speaking world. While the Broadway (Manhattan), Broadway thoroughfare is eponymous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Next Big Thing (film)
''The Next Big Thing'' is a 2001 romantic comedy film starring Marin Hinkle, Chris Eigeman, Jamie Harris, Connie Britton and Janet Zarish. It was directed by P.J. Posner. Plot Gus Bishop is a talented but failing New York painter who lacks the marketing savvy to make it in today's art world. After getting pick-pocketed in the subway, Gus' destiny is turned over into the hands of Deech—who promptly burglarizes his home and steals his paintings. To capitalize on his stolen goods, Deech generates interest in Gus' work by creating Geoffrey Buonardi, a fictional artist with a fascinating profile. Geoffrey becomes an overnight sensation while Gus is forced into the shadows of the ever-elusive rising star. Cast * Chris Eigeman as Gus Bishop * Jamie Harris as Deech Scumble * Connie Britton as Kate Crowley * Janet Zarish as Florence Rubin * Mike Starr as Walter Sznitken * Farley Granger as Arthur Pomposello * Marin Hinkle as Shari Lampkin * Peter Giles as Roger * Dechen Thurma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lovely & Amazing
''Lovely & Amazing'' is a 2001 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Nicole Holofcener. Summary The story focuses on Jane Marks, her adult daughters Michelle and Elizabeth, and her pre-teen adopted African American daughter Annie, each of whom allows her personal insecurities to affect her life. Jane, longing to look younger and thinner, decides to get liposuction, which results in a lengthy hospital stay after she develops complications following the procedure. The resulting health struggles force Jane to wonder what will happen, after her death, to Annie. Jane’s health struggles are further exacerbated by unhelpful nursing staff and a fleeting attraction to her doctor. The complications eventually take a toll on Jane, and she becomes unconscious, worrying her daughters. Michelle passes her time making arts and crafts and attempts to sell them to small businesses. Michelle has a difficult relationship with her husband Bill, who is frustrated by her inability to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Warren (director)
David Warren is an American theatre and television director. Career Theatre Warren has a number of Broadway production directing credits to his name, including ''Holiday'', ''Summer and Smoke'' and ''Misalliance''. His other, more extensive work includes the '' Jekyll & Hyde'' and '' Copacabana'' national tours, and several significant off-Broadway productions including ''Pterodactyls'', ''Matt & Ben'', ''Minutes from the Blue Route'', ''Night and Her Stars'', ''Hurrah at Last'', ''The Dazzle'', ''Raised in Captivity'', ''Hobson's Choice'' and '' Drumstruck''. He also has many credits for regional theatres including, among many others, Baltimore Center Stage, New York Stage and Film and South Coast Repertory. Television Warren's television credits include episodes of ''Desperate Housewives'', ''Weeds'', ''Gossip Girl'', ''In Plain Sight'', '' 90210'', ''Ugly Betty'', ''Drop Dead Diva'', and '' Valentine''. ''Desperate Housewives'' creator and executive producer Marc Cherry asked ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roundabout Theatre Company
The Roundabout Theatre Company is a nonprofit organization, non-profit theatre company based in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, affiliated with the League of Resident Theatres. History The company was founded in 1965 by Gene Feist, Michael Fried and Elizabeth Owens. Originally housed at a Chelsea, Manhattan, grocery store, on 26th Street, it moved to the nearby School of Visual Arts#Theatre, 23rd Street Theatre in 1972, performing there until their lease expired in 1984. Following that, Roundabout leased the theatre space at 44 Union Square until that lease expired in 1990. The company then moved into the Criterion Center in Times Square, a two-auditorium complex. Roundabout used the larger Stage Right space as a small Tony Award-eligible theater while the smaller second theater became the first version of the Laura Pels Theatre. Notable productions during Roundabout's tenure at the Criterion include the 1993 revival of Eugene O'Neill's ''Anna Christie'' (featuring Liam Neeson ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
Gramercy Theatre
The Gramercy Theatre is a music venue in New York City. It is located in the Gramercy neighborhood of Manhattan, on 127 East 23rd Street. Built in 1937 as the Gramercy Park Theatre, it is owned and operated by Live Nation as one of their two concert halls in New York City, the other being the nearby Irving Plaza. History Built in 1937 and designed by architect Charles A. Sandblom in the Streamline Moderne style, the theater is located at 127 E. 23rd St in the historic Gramercy neighborhood. It was originally known as the Gramercy Park Theatre to avoid confusion with the existing Gramercy Theatre at 310 First Avenue, which had 521 seats. After the old Gramercy Theatre succumbed to TV competition in the early 1950s, the newer theater dropped "Park" from its name. In the 1950s, the theater was purchased by Cinema V, an art-film presentation and distribution company. The theater was considered an "art house" due to eclectic programming, its unconventional policy of barring adm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The American Place Theatre
The American Place Theatre was founded in 1963 by Wynn Handman, Sidney Lanier, and Michael Tolan at St. Clement's Church, 423 West 46th Street in Hell's Kitchen, New York City, and was incorporated as a not-for-profit theatre in that year. Tennessee Williams and Myrna Loy were two of the original board members. Achievements The first full production at this off-Broadway theatre was '' The Old Glory'', a trilogy of three one-acts by the poet Robert Lowell, produced in November 1964. The play would go on to win five Obie Awards the following year, including "Best American Play." In addition to producing Robert Lowell's first play, The American Place Theatre has produced and developed the first plays of outstanding writers from other literary forms including Donald Barthelme, Robert Coover, Paul Goodman, H. L. Mencken, Joyce Carol Oates, S. J. Perelman, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, May Swenson, and Robert Penn Warren. Significant playwrights have been nurtured and, in many cas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Greenberg
Richard Greenberg (born February 22, 1958) is an American playwright and television writer known for his subversively humorous depictions of middle-class American life. He has had more than 25 plays premiere on and Off-Broadway in New York City and eight at the South Coast Repertory Theatre in Costa Mesa, California, including '' The Violet Hour'', ''Everett Beekin'', and ''Hurrah at Last.'' Greenberg is perhaps best known for his 2003 Tony Award winning play, '' Take Me Out'', about the conflicts that arise after a Major League Baseball player nonchalantly announces to the media that he is gay. The play premiered in London and ran in New York as the first collaboration between England's Donmar Warehouse and New York's Public Theater. After it transferred to Broadway in early 2003, ''Take Me Out'' won widespread critical acclaim for Greenberg and many prestigious awards. Background and education Greenberg grew up in East Meadow, New York, a middle-class Long Island town in N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mitzi E
Mitzi or Mitzy (sometimes Mitzie) is a feminine given name of German origin. Originally a nickname for girls named Maria in German-speaking populations, Mitzi became a given name in its own right, even outside of Germany. Several early-20th-century American actresses chose it as part of their stage name, for example Mitzi Green and Mitzi Gaynor, increasing its popularity. In the United States, Mitzi first appeared on the Social Security Administration's list of the top 1,000 most popular names for baby girls in 1930, peaked in 1955, and has since fallen out of favor, dropping off the list entirely after 1979. People *Mitzi Cajayon (born 1978), Filipino politician * Mitzie Collins (born 1941), American folk musician *Mitzi Cunliffe (1918–2006), American sculptor *Mitzi Gaynor (born 1931), American actress, singer and dancer born Francesca Marlene de Czanyi von Gerber * Mitzi Green (1920–1969), American child actress born Elizabeth Keno *Mitzi Hajos (1889–1970), Hungarian bor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Howard Korder
Howard Korder is an American screenwriter and playwright. He is the author of the 1988 coming-of-age play ''Boys' Life'', which earned him a Pulitzer Prize for Drama nomination. His play ''Search and Destroy'' was adapted into a film in 1995. Among the screenplays he has written are '' The Passion of Ayn Rand'' and '' Lakeview Terrace''. He is also one of the writers of ''Boardwalk Empire ''Boardwalk Empire'' is an American period crime drama television series created by Terence Winter for the premium cable channel HBO. The series is set chiefly in Atlantic City, New Jersey, during the Prohibition era of the 1920s. The series sta ...''. References External links * * American dramatists and playwrights Living people Date of birth missing (living people) Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-playwright-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
