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Marnie Andrews
Marnie Andrews (born 1951 in Cedartown, Georgia) is an American stage and television actress ''ER (TV series), ER'', ''JAG (TV series), JAG'', ''Murder One (TV series), Murder One'', "Reasonable Doubts", (with Mark Harmon and Marlee Matlin) (1991-1993), ''The Wonder Years'' and made for TV movies "Line of Fire: The Morris Dees Story," (1991), ''Shattered Mind'' (1996), among others. Much of her stage work comes from the development of new plays. She has originated numerous roles in world premieres, several as a member of New Jersey Repertory Company. Andrews is also a director of theatre. As a singer and lyricist, she has composed with Christopher McHale, and Tyler Orr Sterrett. As writer and poet (with articles published in such magazines as ''Natural History'', ''CR'', ''Amica'' and ''American Theatre''), she writes often of her travels with Jeff Jacobson (photographer), Jeff Jacobson. Her writing focusses on the issues of environmental protection, working within the communit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cedartown, Georgia
Cedartown is a city and the county seat of Polk County, Georgia, United States. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 10,190. Cedartown is the principal city of the Cedartown micropolitan area, which is included in the Atlanta–Athens-Clarke–Sandy Springs combined statistical area. The Cedartown Commercial Historic District is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Cedartown Waterworks-Woman's Building-Big Spring Park Historic District is also listed along with the Northwest Cedartown Historic District and South Philpot Street Historic District. History Cherokee and Creek Native Americans first inhabited the area known as Cedar Valley. The Cherokee people had established a village there in the 1830s after the Native Americans were forced out on the Trail of Tears. The settlement was named for the red cedar timber near the site. The most famous of these settlers was Asa Prior. According to local legend, the water rights to Big Sprin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hudson Opera House
Hudson Hall at the historic Hudson Opera House is an arts organization and venue in downtown Hudson, New York. The organization presents and produces arts and cultural programming year-round, and is an important civic partner in the vitality of Hudson. The building, constructed in 1855 as Hudson's city hall, is New York's oldest surviving theater. History The building was designed by local architect Peter H. Avery and was constructed in 1855 at 327 Warren Street. It was built as Hudson's first city hall, including a public space with a proposed 400 seats and space for 2,000 overall. As city hall it was home to a number of things, including the post office, Franklin Library, and the First National Bank of Hudson. It also was used as a lecture hall and an art gallery. Around 1880, many American town halls were changing their names to "Opera House" to follow the fashion of the recently constructed Paris Opera house. Due to the trend, the Hudson Opera House was given its name. It wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Stage Actresses
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Living People
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1951 Births
Events January * January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950). * January 9 – The Government of the United Kingdom announces abandonment of the Tanganyika groundnut scheme for the cultivation of peanuts in the Tanganyika Territory, with the writing off of £36.5M debt. * January 11 – In the U.S., a top secret report is delivered to U.S. President Truman by his National Security Resources Board, urging Truman to expand the Korean War by launching "a global offensive against communism" with sustained bombing of Red China and diplomatic moves to establish "moral justification" for a U.S. nuclear attack on the Soviet Union. The report will not not be declassified until 1978. * January 15 – In a criminal court in West Germany, Ilse Koch, The "Witch of Buchenwald", wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trojan Women
''The Trojan Women'' (, lit. "The Female Trojans") is a tragedy by the Greek playwright Euripides, produced in 415 BCE. Also translated as ''The Women of Troy,'' or as its transliterated Greek title ''Troades, The Trojan Women'' presents commentary on the costs of war through the lens of women and children. The four central women of the play are the same that appear in the final book of the ''Iliad,'' lamenting over the corpse of Hector after the Trojan War. ''Hecuba'', another tragedy by Euripides, similarly deals with the experiences of women left behind by war and was more popular in antiquity. The tragedy has inspired many modern adaptation across film, literature, and the stage. Historical background Scholar Neil Croally believes that ''The Trojan Women'' was written as a reaction to the Siege of Melos in 416 BCE during the Peloponnesian War, in which Athens invaded the Aegean island of Melos, destroyed its city, and slaughtered and enslaved its populace ''(see His ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Farrell (playwright)
James, Jim or Jimmy Farrell may refer to: * James Farrell (priest) (1803–1869), Irish cleric, first Dean of Adelaide * James A. Farrell (1863–1943), president of US Steel, 1911–1932 * James Augustine Farrell Jr. (1901–1966) his son, ship operator and owner * James T. Farrell (1904–1979), American socialist novelist * J. G. Farrell (James Gordon Farrell, 1935–1979), Anglo-Irish novelist * James Farrell (television producer), British television executive * Jimmy Farrell (James Leo Farrell, 1903–1979), Irish rugby player * Jimmy Farrell (footballer) (1919–2007), Australian rules footballer * J. P. Farrell (James Patrick Farrell, 1865–1921), Irish nationalist politician and Member of Parliament * James Farrell (police officer) (c. 1830–?), New Zealand policeman * W. James Farrell (born 1942), American businessman * James Esmond Farrell (1909–1968), New Zealand diplomat * Jimmy Farrell, fictional character in the play ''The Playboy of the Western World'' * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American College Theatre Festival
The Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF) is a national theatre program dedicated to the improvement of collegiate theatre in the United States. Focused on the celebration of diverse and exciting theatre, KCACTF involves students from more than 600 colleges and universities throughout the United States. Overview While the culmination of the KCACTF is the national festival held in Washington, D.C. at the Kennedy Center, the majority of students involved in the program compete in one of eight regional competitions. Over 18,000 students are involved in at least one aspect of KCACTF. Although the national festival is intended to be the pinnacle of the collegiate theatre year and not necessarily a competition, there are a number of scholarships and awards presented throughout the week, including the Irene Ryan Acting Scholarships. Other competitions include playwriting, directing, set design, costume design, lighting design, sound design, and the Eugene O'Neill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lanford Wilson
Lanford Wilson (April 13, 1937March 24, 2011) was an American playwright. His work, as described by ''The New York Times'', was "earthy, realist, greatly admired ndwidely performed". Fox, Margalit"Lanford Wilson, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright, Dies at 73"''The New York Times'', March 24, 2011. Wilson helped to advance the off-off-Broadway theater movement with his earliest plays, which were first produced at the Caffe Cino beginning in 1964. He was one of the first playwrights to move from off-off-Broadway to off-Broadway, then Broadway and beyond. Wilson was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Drama & Performance Art in 1972. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1980 and was elected in 2001 to the American Theater Hall of Fame. In 2004, Wilson was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters and received the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award as a Master American Dramatist. He was nominated for three Tony Awards and has won a Drama D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fifth Of July (play)
''Fifth of July'' is a 1978 Events January * January 1 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes off the coast of Bombay, killing 213. * January 5 – Bülent Ecevit, of Republican People's Party, CHP, forms the new government of Turkey (42nd ... play by Lanford Wilson. Set in rural Missouri in 1977, it revolves around the Talley family and their friends, and focuses on the disillusionment in the wake of the Vietnam War. It premiered on Broadway theatre, Broadway in 1980 and was later produced as a Television film, made-for-television movie. The play is part of the Talley Trilogy, a series of Wilson plays revolving around the Talley family of Lebanon, Missouri. The other plays, both set on July 4, 1944, are ''Talley's Folly'', a One-act play, one-act dialogue between Sally Talley and her husband-to-be, Matthew Friedman, and ''Talley & Son'', the story of a power struggle between Sally's father and grandfather. Plot summary Kenneth Talley Jr. is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mousetrap
''The Mousetrap'' is a murder mystery play by Agatha Christie. The play opened in London's West End in 1952 and ran continuously until 16 March 2020, when the stage performances had to be temporarily discontinued during the COVID-19 pandemic. It then re-opened on 17 May 2021. The longest-running West End show, it also has by far the longest run of any play in the world, reaching its 30,000th performance on 19 March 2025. Attendees at St Martin's Theatre often get their photo taken beside the wooden counter (showing a count of the number of performances) in the theatre foyer. As of 2022 the play had been seen by 10 million people in London. A whodunit, the play has a twist ending which the audience are traditionally asked not to reveal after leaving the theatre. There are eight members of the cast, and by 2012 more than 400 actors had played the roles. Richard Attenborough was the original Detective Sergeant Trotter, and his wife, Sheila Sim, the first Mollie Ralston – o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
