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Johanna Day
Johanna Day (born 1964) is an American actress. She was nominated for two Tony Awards for her performances in the 2000 play ''Proof'' and the 2016 production of the play ''Sweat''. Her other accolades include a Helen Hayes Award and an Obie Award, as well as nominations for a Drama Desk Award, a Drama League Award, an Outer Critics Circle Award and two Lucille Lortel Awards. Early life Johanna was born in Winchester, Virginia and grew up in Rappahannock County, Virginia. She is the daughter and ninth child of Eileen Mitchell Day of Sperryville and Walter Day of Flint Hill. She graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in 1984. Career In August 2013 Johanna Day costarred with Reg Rogers in the world premiere of Carly Mensch's play ''Oblivion'' at the Westport Country Playhouse. She costarred with Amelia Campbell in Penn State Centre Stage 2013 production of David Lindsay-Abaire's play '' Good People''. She appeared with Tracy Letts and Parker Posey in the wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winchester, Virginia
Winchester is the northwesternmost Administrative divisions of Virginia#Independent cities, independent city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Virginia, United States. It is the county seat of Frederick County, Virginia, Frederick County, although the two are separate jurisdictions. As of the 2020 United States census, the city's population was 28,120. It is the principal city of the Winchester, VA–WV MSA, Winchester metropolitan area with a population of just over 145,000 extending into West Virginia, which is a part of the Washington–Baltimore combined statistical area. Winchester is home to Shenandoah University and the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley. History Native Americans Indigenous peoples lived along the waterways of present-day Virginia for thousands of years before European contact. Archeological, linguistics, linguistic and anthropological studies have provided insights into their cultures. Though little is known of specific tribal movements befo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reg Rogers
Reg Rogers (born December 23, 1964) is an American stage, film, and television actor, known for his roles in '' Primal Fear'' and '' Runaway Bride'' and for the TV miniseries ''Attila''. He also appears in theater, both on Broadway and Off-Broadway. Early life Rogers was raised in Newport Beach, California. After high school, he attended several colleges before graduating from the Yale School of Drama in 1993. Career Rogers has frequently appeared in guest roles on television shows including ''Law & Order'', '' CSI: Crime Scene Investigation'', ''Friends'', ''The Closer'', ''Boardwalk Empire'', ''Touched by an Angel'', ''The Knick'', '' Lipstick Jungle'', '' Miss Match'', '' Hell on Wheels'', ''The Americans'', ''The Blacklist'' and the TV miniseries ''Attila''. He played the killer Andrew Lincoln in the 2005 TV film '' Stone Cold'', part of the Jesse Stone TV film series. Films that featured Rogers include '' Primal Fear'', '' I Shot Andy Warhol'', '' Runaway Bride'', '' T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Imperial Theatre
The Imperial Theatre is a Broadway theater at 249 West 45th Street ( George Abbott Way) in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City, New York, U.S. Opened in 1923, the Imperial Theatre was designed by Herbert J. Krapp and was constructed for the Shubert brothers. It has 1,457 seats across two levels and is operated by The Shubert Organization. The auditorium interior is a New York City designated landmark. The theater is largely situated on 46th Street. A narrow lobby extends to the main entrance on 45th Street, where there is a three-story facade of white terracotta. The 46th Street facade, which is made of buff-colored brick, was intended as the carriage entrance. The lobby, originally decorated in dark and white tiles, leads to the rear of the theater's orchestra level. The auditorium contains Adam-style detailing, a large balcony, and box seats with carved panels above them. The flat proscenium arch above the stage is topped by a curved sounding boar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Osage County
Osage County is the name of several counties in the United States: * Osage County, Kansas * Osage County, Missouri * Osage County, Oklahoma Osage County () is the largest county by area in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. Created in 1907 when Oklahoma was admitted as a state, the county is named for and is home to the federally recognized Osage Nation. The county is coextensive with t ... ;It could also refer to: * '' August: Osage County'', a play by Tracy Letts, set in the Oklahoma county ** ''August: Osage County'' (film), the film adaptation of the play {{disambig, geo, uscounty ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yale Repertory Theatre
Yale Repertory Theatre at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut was founded by Robert Brustein, dean of Yale School of Drama, in 1966, with the goal of facilitating a meaningful collaboration between theatre professionals and talented students. In the process it has become one of the first distinguished regional theatres. Located at the edge of Yale's main downtown campus, it occupies the former Calvary Baptist Church. History As head of Yale Repertory Theatre ("the Rep") from 1966 to 1979, Robert Brustein brought professional actors to Yale each year to form a repertory company and nurtured notable new authors including Christopher Durang. Some successful works were transferred to commercial theaters. Michael Feingold was the first literary manager. The dean of Yale School of Drama is the artistic director of the Yale Repertory Theatre, with Lloyd Richards (who most notably nurtured the career of August Wilson) serving in this capacity 1979–1991, Stan Wojewodski ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Will Eno
Will Eno (born 1965) is an American playwright based in Brooklyn, New York. His play, '' Thom Pain (based on nothing)'' was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama in 2005. His play '' The Realistic Joneses'' appeared on Broadway in 2014, where it received a Drama Desk Special Award and was named Best Play on Broadway by ''USA Today'', and best American play of 2014 by ''The Guardian''. His play ''The Open House'' was presented Off-Broadway at the Signature Theatre in 2014 and won the Obie Award for Playwriting as well as other awards, and was on both ''TIME Magazine'' and ''Time Out New York '' 's Top Ten Plays of 2014. Biography Eno grew up in Billerica, Carlisle, and Westford, Massachusetts and attended Concord-Carlisle High School. He was a competitive cyclist from the age of about 13 until his early 20s. For three years he attended the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, but dropped out and moved to New York. He is married to actress Maria Dizzia. Career His plays ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parker Posey
Parker Christian Posey (born November 8, 1968) is an American actress. Known for playing eccentric characters in independent films, she was named "Queen of the Indies" by ''Time'' in 1997. She has received nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and an Independent Spirit Award. Posey's film credits include '' Dazed and Confused'' (1993), '' Party Girl'', '' Kicking and Screaming'' (both 1995), '' The Daytrippers'' (1996), '' The House of Yes'', '' Clockwatchers'' (both 1997), '' Henry Fool'', '' You've Got Mail'' (both 1998), '' Scream 3'' (2000), '' Josie and the Pussycats'' (2001), '' Blade: Trinity'' (2004), '' Superman Returns'' (2006), '' Broken English'' (2007), '' Irrational Man'' (2015), '' Café Society'' (2016), '' Columbus'' (2017), and '' Beau Is Afraid'' (2023). She has worked with Christopher Guest in his mockumentary films '' Waiting for Guffman'' (1996), '' Best in Show'' (2000), '' A Mighty Wind'' (2003), '' For Your Consideration'' (20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tracy Letts
Tracy S. Letts (born July 4, 1965) is an American actor, playwright, and screenwriter. He started his career at the Steppenwolf Theatre before making his Broadway debut as a playwright for '' August: Osage County'' (2007), for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play. As an actor, he won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for the Broadway revival of ''Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'' (2013). As a playwright, Letts is known for having written for the Steppenwolf Theatre, Off-Broadway and Broadway theatre. His works include '' Killer Joe'', '' Bug'', '' Man from Nebraska'', '' August: Osage County'', '' Superior Donuts'', ''Linda Vista'', and '' The Minutes''. Letts adapted three of his plays into films, '' Bug'' and '' Killer Joe'', both directed by William Friedkin, and '' August: Osage County'', directed by John Wells. His 2009 play '' Superior Donuts'' was adapted into a television series of the same name. As a stage actor, Letts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Playbill
''Playbill'' is an American monthly magazine for Audience, theatergoers. Although there is a subscription issue available for home delivery, most copies of ''Playbill'' are printed for particular productions and distributed at the door as the show's Programme (booklet), program. ''Playbill'' was first printed in 1884 for a single theater on 21st Street in New York City. The magazine is now used at nearly every Broadway theatre as well as many Off-Broadway productions. Outside New York City, ''Playbill'' is used at theaters throughout the United States. its Magazine circulation, circulation was 4,073,680. History What is known today as ''Playbill'' started in 1884, when Frank Vance Strauss founded the New York Theatre Program Corporation specializing in printing theater programs. Strauss reimagined the concept of a theater program, making advertisements a standard feature and thus transforming what was then a leaflet into a fully designed magazine. The new format proved popu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Good People (play)
''Good People'' is a 2011 play by David Lindsay-Abaire. The world premiere was staged by the Manhattan Theatre Club in New York City. The production was nominated for two 2011 Tony Awards – Best Play and Best Leading Actress in a Play (Frances McDormand), with the latter winning. Synopsis Margie Walsh, a lifelong resident of Southie, a blue collar Boston neighborhood, is fired for tardiness from her job as a cashier at a dollar store. A single mother, and knowing that she and her handicapped adult daughter Joyce, "are only a single paycheck away from desperate straits","Down-and-Outs Are Center Stage Once Again" nytimes.com, March 12, 2011 Margie goes to her old high school boyfriend Mike — now a doctor, but formerly from her neig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Lindsay-Abaire
David Lindsay-Abaire (né Abaire; born November 30, 1969) is an American playwright, lyricist and screenwriter. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2007 for his play '' Rabbit Hole'', which also earned several Tony Award nominations. Lindsay-Abaire won both the 2023 Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical and Tony Award for Best Original Score for the musical adaptation of his play ''Kimberly Akimbo''. Early life and education David Lindsay-Abaire was born David Abaire in Boston, Massachusetts, and grew up in South Boston. He attended Milton Academy and concentrated in theatre at Sarah Lawrence College, from which he graduated in 1992. He was accepted into the Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program at the Juilliard School, where he wrote under the tutelage of playwrights Marsha Norman and Christopher Durang from 1996 to 1998. In a 2000 interview, Lindsay-Abaire cited Durang as his greatest influence, adding, "I don't think there's been a piece written about ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amelia Campbell
Amelia Campbell (born August 4, 1965) is a Canadian-born, American-raised actress. She was born in Montreal, Quebec, but grew up in Ithaca, New York. A stage and film actress, she has appeared in such films as '' The Paper'', '' My Louisiana Sky'', ''Single White Female'', and ''Lorenzo's Oil''. Personal life Campbell was born in Montreal but grew up in Ithaca, New York. She graduated from Syracuse University in 1988. She is married to Anthony Arkin (b. 1967), son of Alan Arkin and younger brother of actor Adam Arkin. Career In 1990, Campbell played a small role in ''The Exorcist III''. In 1992 she played roles in ''Single White Female'' and ''Lorenzo's Oil''. She appeared in Ron Howard's film '' The Paper'' in 1994. In 1999 she played Patty the stage manager in ''Macbeth in Manhattan'', which was filmed in one of New York City's historic theatres. In 2001 she played the role of Corinna Ramsey Parker in '' My Louisiana Sky'', directed by her brother-in-law Adam Arkin. In 2008, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
