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Killer Joe (play)
''Killer Joe'' is a play written by Tracy Letts in 1993. Productions The play was produced then premiered in 1993 at the Next Theatre Lab, in Evanston, Illinois, directed by Wilson Milam. After a successful run, ''Killer Joe'' was transferred to the Traverse Theatre at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The play gained positive reviews, and received the Fringe First award, given to new productions at the festival. The play then made its New York premiere Off-Off-Broadway by 29th Street Repertory in 1994. ''Killer Joe'' transferred to London on 16 January 1995 at the Bush Theatre. The limited run at the Bush Theatre was a sell out, and once again received rave reviews. After closing at the Bush Theatre, ''Killer Joe'' opened at the Vaudeville Theatre, London, for one year. ''Killer Joe'' was revived Off-Broadway at the Soho Playhouse in October 1998 until 13 June 1999, starring Scott Glenn, Amanda Plummer and Michael Shannon. In 2018, ''Killer Joe'' opened at the Trafalgar St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilson Milam
Wilson Milam is an American theatre director from Bellevue, Washington who works in the United States, UK and Ireland. He was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Director of a Play for Martin McDonagh's ''The Lieutenant of Inishmore'' as well as a Lucille Lortel nomination for his direction of Tracy Letts's Killer Joe. Biography Milam began his career in Seattle working as an actor before moving to Chicago and getting work as an assistant director at the Victory Gardens, Remains, and Steppenwolf Theatre Companies. He directed the world premiere production of Killer Joe at the Next Theatre, which subsequently moved to the Traverse Theatre for the Edinburgh Festival, where it won a Fringe First Award, before transferring to London. A subsequent production of Lett's next play, Bug, transferred to The Gate Theatre in London and Milam began working on both sides of the Atlantic. Stage productions US: * Warrior Class (Alley, Houston) * Rank (Odyssey, LA) * American Buffalo (Seattl ... [...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] |
Michael Shannon
Michael Corbett Shannon (born August 7, 1974) is an American actor. Shannon received two Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor nominations, for '' Revolutionary Road'' (2008), and '' Nocturnal Animals'' (2016). He received Screen Actors Guild Award and Golden Globe Award nominations for his role in '' 99 Homes'' (2014). Shannon's film debut was in ''Groundhog Day'' (1993). He has also appeared in '' Jesus' Son'' (1999), ''Pearl Harbor'' (2001), '' Kangaroo Jack'' (2003), ''Before the Devil Knows You're Dead'' (2007), '' The Iceman'' (2012), '' The Night Before'' (2015), '' The Shape of Water'' (2017), ''Knives Out'' (2019), and '' Bullet Train'' (2022). He is a frequent collaborator with director Jeff Nichols, having appeared in all of Nichols' films to date: '' Shotgun Stories'' (2007), '' Take Shelter'' (2011), ''Mud'' (2012), '' Midnight Special'' and '' Loving'' (both 2016), and '' The Bikeriders'' (2023). He played General Zod in the DC Extended Universe films '' Man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Plays Adapted Into Films
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label that was previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1993 Plays
The General Assembly of the United Nations designated 1993 as: * International Year for the World's Indigenous People The year 1993 in the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands had only 364 days, since its calendar advanced 24 hours to the Eastern Hemisphere side of the International Date Line, skipping August 21, 1993. Events January * January 1 ** Czechoslovakia ceases to exist, as the Czech Republic and Slovakia separate in the Dissolution of Czechoslovakia. ** The European Economic Community eliminates trade barriers and creates a European single market. ** International Radio and Television Organization ceases. * January 3 – In Moscow, Presidents George H. W. Bush (United States) and Boris Yeltsin (Russia) sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty. * January 5 ** US$7.4 million is stolen from the Brink's Armored Car Depot in Rochester, New York, in the fifth largest robbery in U.S. history. ** , a Liberian-registered oil tanker, runs aground off the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Killer Joe (film)
''Killer Joe'' is a 2011 American Southern Gothic crime film, crime film directed by William Friedkin. The screenplay by Tracy Letts is based on his 1993 Killer Joe (play), play of the same name. The film stars Matthew McConaughey in the title role, Emile Hirsch, Juno Temple, Gina Gershon, and Thomas Haden Church. In the film, the estranged family of a woman scheme to kill her in order to collect on her life insurance policy, and conspire with a corrupt police officer to do the deed. Plot In West Dallas, 22-year-old drug dealer Chris Smith comes to the trailer park home of his dimwitted father Ansel and his cheating stepmother Sharla after his mother and Ansel's ex-wife, Adele, has thrown Chris out of her house. To make matters worse, Adele stole cocaine Chris was supposed to sell, and he is now desperate to pay the $6,000 debt he owes his supplier Digger Soames. Chris tells Ansel that by killing Adele, they can collect on a $50,000 life insurance policy of which Chris' sister ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mesquite
Mesquite is a common name for some plants in the genera ''Neltuma'' and '' Strombocarpa'', which contain over 50 species of spiny, deep-rooted leguminous shrubs and small trees. They are native to dry areas in the Americas. Until 2022, these genera were traditionally included in a broad view of the genus '' Prosopis'', but that genus is now restricted to a few species native to the Old World. Mesquites have extremely long roots to seek water from very far under ground. As they are legumes, mesquites are one of the few sources of fixed nitrogen in the desert habitat. The trees bloom from spring to summer. They often produce fruits known as "pods". Mesquites are able to grow up to tall, depending on site and climate. They are deciduous and depending on location and rainfall have either deep or shallow roots. Mesquites are considered long-lived because of the low mortality rate after the dicotyledonous stage and juveniles are also able to survive in conditions with low light and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurence Olivier Award
The Laurence Olivier Awards, or simply The Olivier Awards, are presented annually by the Society of London Theatre to recognize excellence in West End theatre, professional theatre in London. The awards were originally known as the Society of West End Theatre Awards, but they were renamed in honour of the Laurence Olivier, English actor of the same name in 1984 Laurence Olivier Awards, 1984. The awards are given annually to individuals involved in West End productions and other leading West End theatre#London's non-commercial theatres, non-commercial theatres based in London across a range of categories covering plays, musicals, dance, opera and affiliate theatre. A discretionary non-competitive Society of London Theatre Special Award, Special Olivier Award is also given each year. The Olivier Awards are recognised internationally as the highest honour in Theatre of the United Kingdom, British theatre, equivalent to the British Academy Film Awards, BAFTA Awards for Cinema of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Evans (director)
Simon Richard Evans (born 31 December 1983) is an English theatre and television director, writer, and actor. He is best known as co-creator, writer, and producer of ''Staged'' (2020–2022), in which he also co-stars as a fictionalised version of himself, which premiered on BBC One. Early life Evans was raised in Oxford with his sister, actress Lucy Eaton, while his parents ran a dentistry in the United Kingdom, dental practice in nearby Kidlington. He was educated at The Dragon School and Abingdon School, where his fellow alumni include Tom Hollander, Toby Jones, Hugh Laurie and members of Radiohead. He studied Education, English, Drama & the Arts at Homerton College, Cambridge. Career As a theatre director, Evans' productions include ''The Dazzle'' (starring Andrew Scott (actor), Andrew Scott), ''Bug (play), Bug'' (James Norton (actor), James Norton), ''The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui'' (Lenny Henry), ''Killer Joe (play), Killer Joe'' (Orlando Bloom) and ''A Day in the Death ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neve McIntosh
Neve McIntosh (born Carol McIntosh; 9 April 1972) is a Scottish actress. Early life Born in Paisley, Renfrewshire, McIntosh grew up in Edinburgh, where she attended Boroughmuir High School. She was a member of Edinburgh Youth Theatre in the late 1980s, appearing in ''Mother Goose'' and ''Doctor in the House''. She moved to Glasgow to attend the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, after which she was in repertory companies at Perth and at The Little Theatre on the Isle of Mull. During the Second World War McIntosh's grandfather was captured at Dunkirk and died of pneumonia in a German prisoner-of-war camp in Poland. Acting career Theatre In 1995, she starred in a Glasgow stage production of ''The Barber of Seville''. She then played in the RSC production of Dickens' ''Great Expectations'', and starred as Portia in Shakespeare's ''The Merchant of Venice'', and in '' The Scent of Roses'' at the Lyceum in Edinburgh. In summer 2009 she performed in the Sylvia Plath play ''T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steffan Rhodri
Steffan Rhodri (born 1967, in Morriston, Swansea) is a Welsh film and television actor, best known for portraying bus driver Dave Coaches in the BBC comedy series '' Gavin & Stacey''. Early and personal life Steffan Rhodri was born in 1967, in Morriston, Swansea, and is the cousin of novelist Mark Ellis. He is well known as a fan of Swansea City F.C., for whom he made a DVD called ''The Golden Year''. Career Rhodri has appeared in both English-language and Welsh-language films, television and stage productions. He played Reg Cattermole in ''Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1'' and provided the voice of Drippy in '' Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch''. He has been called "Wales' most prolific actor". On stage, he played Banquo alongside Ralph Fiennes in Simon Godwin's production of ''Macbeth''. Rhodri is best known for portraying bus driver Dave Coaches in the comedy series '' Gavin & Stacey''. Filmography * '' Twin Town'' (1997) – Hunky * '' Solom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Gillen
Adam Gillen (born 11 September 1985) is a British actor, best known for his role as Liam Conroy in the ITV hit series ''Benidorm'', Brian in the Channel 4 comedy '' Fresh Meat'' and Gavin in BBC's '' Prisoners’ Wives''. In 2019, Gillen was nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in '' Killer Joe''. Early life Gillen studied acting at Stockport College, before going on to graduate from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in 2007. Career In 2000, Gillen was nominated for a TMA Award for Best Supporting Performance in a play for the Royal Exchange Theatre Company's '' A Taste of Honey''. In 2011 he appeared as Moses in '' The School for Scandal''. Gillen is best known for his role as Liam in ''Benidorm'' from 2011 to its conclusion in 2018. Gillen's other television work includes '' The Gemma Factor'', ''Oliver Twist'', '' Just William'' and '' The Sarah Jane Adventures''. In 2010, Gillen appeared in Noel Clarke’s '' 4.3.2.1.''. He appeared in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
