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Mark Brokaw
Mark Brokaw is an American theatre director. He won the Drama Desk Award, Obie Award and Lucille Lortel Award as Outstanding Director of a Play for '' How I Learned to Drive''. Life and career Brokaw was raised in Aledo, Illinois, and graduated from the Yale School of Drama. He received a Drama League fellowship and was initially given directing work through Carole Rothman and Robyn Goodman, artistic heads of the Second Stage Theatre. He has directed many off-Broadway productions, and his New York work includes premieres by Lynda Barry (''The Good Times Are Killing Me''), Douglas Carter Beane ('' As Bees in Honey Drown''), Neal Bell, Eric Bogosian, Keith Bunin, Charles Busch, Kevin Elyot, Lisa Kron (''2.5 Minute Ride''), Lisa Loomer, Kenneth Lonergan (''This Is Our Youth'', ''Lobby Hero''), Craig Lucas (''Dying Gaul''), Eduardo Machado, Patrick Marber (''After Miss Julie''), Robert Schenkkan, Nicky Silver, Paula Vogel (''How I Learned to Drive'', ''Long X-Mas Ride Home'') ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drama Desk Award
The Drama Desk Awards are among the most esteemed honors in New York theater, recognizing outstanding achievements across Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Off-Off-Broadway productions within the same categories. The awards are considered a significant American theater honor and have been referred to as "the Golden Globes of Theatre." Established in 1955, the awards are presented annually by the Drama Desk organization, a collective of New York City-based theatre critics, journalists, editors, and publishers dedicated to celebrating excellence in the performing arts. The awards are represented by long-time Broadway press agency, Keith Sherman & Associates. History and mission The Drama Desk organization was founded in 1949 by a group of theater critics and journalists aiming to spotlight significant issues in the theatrical industry and to support the development of New York theater. In 1955, the organization began presenting awards known as the ''Vernon Rice Awards'', named af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenneth Lonergan
Kenneth Lonergan (born October 16, 1962) is an American playwright, screenwriter and film director. He is known for his works which explore complex emotional and interpersonal dynamics. He has received several awards including an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award as well as nominations for three Golden Globe Awards, a Pulitzer Prize, a Laurence Olivier Award, and three Tony Awards. In 1982 Lonergan wrote his first one-act play, ''The Rennings Children''. He then earned acclaim for a string of off-Broadway plays, including '' This is Our Youth'' (1996), '' The Waverly Gallery'' (2000), and '' Lobby Hero'' (2001), which were later revived on Broadway, earning him nominations for three Tony Awards for Best Revival of a Play in 2015, 2019, and 2018, respectively. For his work on ''The Waverly Gallery'', he was selected as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. He directed and wrote the drama film '' Manchester by the Sea'' (2016) which won him the Academy Award for Best Origin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York Shakespeare Festival
Shakespeare in the Park (or Free Shakespeare in the Park) is a theatrical program that stages productions of Shakespearean plays at the Delacorte Theater, an open-air theater in New York City's Central Park. The theater and the productions are managed by The Public Theater and tickets are distributed free of charge on the day of the performance. Originally branded as the New York Shakespeare Festival (NYSF) under the direction of Joseph Papp, the institution was renamed in 2002 as part of a larger reorganization by the Public Theater. History The festival was originally conceived by director-producer Joseph Papp in 1954. Papp began with a series of Shakespeare workshops, then moved on to free productions on the Lower East Side. Eventually, the plays moved to a lawn in front of Turtle Pond in Central Park. In 1959, parks commissioner Robert Moses demanded that Papp and his company charge a fee for the performances to cover the cost of "grass erosion." A court battle ensued. Pap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lincoln Center
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (also simply known as Lincoln Center) is a complex of buildings in the Lincoln Square neighborhood on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. It has thirty indoor and outdoor facilities and is host to 5 million visitors annually. It houses performing arts organizations including the New York Philharmonic, the Metropolitan Opera, the New York City Ballet, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and the Juilliard School. History Planning A consortium of civic leaders and others, led by and under the initiative of philanthropist John D. Rockefeller III, built Lincoln Center as part of the "Lincoln Square Renewal Project" during Robert Moses's program of New York's urban renewal in the 1950s and 1960s."Rockefeller Philanthropy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New Group
The New Group, is a New York City Off-Broadway theatrical troupe founded by Artistic Director Scott Elliott, that produced its first play, Mike Leigh's '' Ecstasy'', in 1995. The New Group is run by founding Artistic Director, Scott Elliott, and Executive Director, Adam Bernstein. The New Group was recognized with the 2004 Tony Award for Best Musical for Avenue Q originated at the Vineyard Theatre in 2003. Home theatre history Since 2003 the home theatre for the group has mostly been on West 42nd Street on Theatre Row. The main theatres since founding are: *1995 - John Houseman Theatre *1996–1998 - INTAR Theatre *1999–2003 - Theater at St. Clement's Church *2003–2014 - Acorn Theatre *2014–Present - Pershing Square Signature Center Production history *1995 **''Ecstasy'' by Mike Leigh, directed by Scott Elliott *1996 **''Curtains'' by Stephen Bill, directed by Scott Elliott *1996–1997 **''This Is Our Youth'' by Kenneth Lonergan, directed by Mark Broka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vineyard Theatre
The Vineyard Theatre is a 120-seat Off-Broadway non-profit theatre company, located at 108 East 15th Street in Manhattan, New York City, near Union Square. Founded in 1981 by Barbara Zinn Krieger, the Vineyard states that its goal is "to give daring artists a safe space to create exhilarating, original theatre." The company is operated by Vineyard Theatre and Workshop Center Inc., a nonprofit organization. The Vineyard Theatre is known for its productions of the Tony Award-winning musical '' Avenue Q'', Paula Vogel's '' How I Learned to Drive'' (a Pulitzer Prize winner), and Jeff Bowen and Hunter Bell's musical '' title of show'' (which won an Obie Award). The company has a long history of recognition by their theatrical peers. Doug Aibel and the Vineyard were the recipients of the 1998 Obie's Ross Wetzsteon Award "For Sustained Support of artists and Creativity in the Theater". The company received the Lucille Lortel Edith Oliver Award for Sustained Excellence in 2003. In ... [...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] |
Wendy Wasserstein
Wendy Wasserstein (October 18, 1950 – January 30, 2006) was an American playwright. She was an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University. She received the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1989 for her play '' The Heidi Chronicles''. Biography Early years Wasserstein was born to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, the daughter of Morris Wasserstein, a wealthy textile executive, and his wife, Lola (née Liska) Schleifer, who moved to the United States from Poland when her father was accused of being a spy."Wendy Wasserstein" jwa.org, accessed June 29, 2014 Wasserstein "once described her mother as being like ' Auntie Mame'". Lola Wasserstein reportedly inspired some of her daughter's characters. W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paula Vogel
Paula Vogel (born November 16, 1951) is an American playwright. She is known for her provocative explorations of complex social and political issues. Much of her work delves into themes of psychological trauma, abuse, and the complexities of human relationships. She has received the Pulitzer Prize as well as nominations for two Tony Awards. In 2013 she was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame. Vogel started her career with the off-Broadway play '' How I Learned to Drive'' which earned her the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The play was revived on Broadway in 2022, earning her a Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play nomination. She wrote the Off-Broadway plays '' The Baltimore Waltz'' (1992), '' Hot 'N Throbbing'' (1994), '' The Mineola Twins'' (1996), and '' The Long Christmas Ride Home'' (2003). She made her Broadway debut with '' Indecent'' in 2017, which earned her a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Play. She returned to Broadway with her latest play '' Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicky Silver
Nicky Silver is an American playwright. Formerly of Philadelphia, he resides in Madrid, after several years in London. Many of his plays have been produced off-Broadway, and also at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington, D.C. Biography Early life Silver was born in 1960 in Philadelphia and as teen, attended Stagedoor Manor Performing Arts Training Center in upstate New York. He graduated from the New York University (NYU) Tisch School of the Arts.Horwitz, Simi"Face to Face : Nicky Silver Answers - "The Maiden's Prayer'"backstage.com, March 13, 1998 Career Many of his early plays were originally produced off-off-Broadway at the Vortex Theatre in New York. Later, his plays premiered at Off-Broadway venues such as the Vineyard Theatre and Playwrights Horizons. Silver noted: "My first real break came when the artistic director of the Woolly Mammoth Theatre in Washington, D.C. happened to walk in and saw, 'Fat Man in Skirts.'" Several of his plays received premieres at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Schenkkan
Robert Frederic Schenkkan Jr. (born March 19, 1953) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and actor. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1992 for his play '' The Kentucky Cycle'' and his play '' All the Way'' earned the 2014 Tony Award for Best Play. He has three Emmy nominations and one WGA Award. Early years Schenkkan was born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, the son of Jean Gregory (née McKenzie) and Robert Frederic Schenkkan, a professor in the Department of Radio-Television-Film at The University of Texas at Austin, and public television executive. He grew up in Austin, Texas. As a Plan II Honors student he received a B.A. in Drama, ''magna cum laude'', from the University of Texas, Austin in 1975 (Phi Beta Kappa, Friars' Society, UT Texas Exes Distinguished Young Alumnus Award and E. William Doty College of Fine Arts Distinguished Alumnus Award), and an M.F.A. in Theatre Arts from Cornell University in 1977. For many years, he lived in New York City and then Los ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Marber
Patrick Albert Crispin Marber (born 19 September 1964) is an English comedian, playwright, director, actor, and screenwriter. Early life Marber was born and raised in a middle-class Jewish family in Wimbledon, London, the son of Angela (Benjamin), a theatre secretary, and Brian Marber, a technical analyst. He was educated at Rokeby School, St Paul's School, Cranleigh School, and Wadham College, Oxford where he studied English. Career Comedy performer After working for a few years as a stand-up comedian, primarily as part of a comedy double act with author Guy Browning, Marber became a writer and cast member on the radio shows '' On the Hour'' and ''Knowing Me, Knowing You'', and their television spinoffs '' The Day Today'' and '' Knowing Me, Knowing You... with Alan Partridge''. Amongst other roles, Marber portrayed hapless reporter Peter O'Hanraha-hanrahan in both '' On the Hour'' and '' The Day Today'', and was involved in a dispute with the comedians Stewart Lee and R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
