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Sorrows Of Stephen
''Sorrows of Stephen'' is a play by Peter Parnell, and was originally published in 1980. The original production was at the New York Shakespeare Festival. Synopsis In the first scene, Stephen reads ''The Sorrows of Young Werther ''The Sorrows of Young Werther'' (; german: Die Leiden des jungen Werthers) is a 1774 epistolary novel by Johann Wolfgang Goethe, which appeared as a revised edition in 1787. It was one of the main novels in the ''Sturm und Drang'' period in Germa ...''. He meets a bum on the street while trying to hail a taxi, and the bum turns out to be Howard Fishbein, who he knew in high school. They briefly discuss Stephen's book. Howard shows that he has a gun, explains that his girlfriend has left him, and he tells Stephen he might use the gun on himself. Stephen tells him not to and leaves, accidentally driving away in a taxi with Howard's gun. In the next scene, Stephen's girlfriend Liz who fingers herself every day leaves him. He returns to his apartment to fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Parnell
Peter Parnell (; born 1953) is an American Broadway and Off-Broadway playwright, television writer, and children's book author. Parnell is also Vice-President of the Dramatists Guild of America, the professional association of playwrights, composers, lyricists, and librettists. Personal life Parnell is gay and is married to the psychiatrist Justin Richardson. They live in Manhattan with their daughter. Plays * ''The Hunchback of Notre Dame'' - Disney Theatricals - music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Stephen Schwartz * ''On a Clear Day You Can See Forever'' - St. James Theater, Broadway - 2011 - starring Harry Connick Jr., Jessie Mueller, and David Turner * ''Trumpery'' - Atlantic Theatre Company - 2007 ''Trumpery'' received its European and British premiere in Oxford, UK during June 2014. * '' QED'' - Lincoln Center Theater - starring Alan Alda - 2001 * ''The Cider House Rules, Part One'', adapted from John Irving's novel - Atlantic Theatre Company, Mark Taper Forum, Seattle Rep ... [...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. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sorrows Of Young Werther
''The Sorrows of Young Werther'' (; german: Die Leiden des jungen Werthers) is a 1774 epistolary novel by Johann Wolfgang Goethe, which appeared as a revised edition in 1787. It was one of the main novels in the ''Sturm und Drang'' period in German literature, and influenced the later Romantic movement. Goethe, aged 24 at the time, finished ''Werther'' in five and a half weeks of intensive writing in January to March 1774. It instantly placed him among the foremost international literary celebrities and was among the best known of his works. Plot summary Most of ''The Sorrows of Young Werther'', a story about a young man's extreme response to unrequited love, is presented as a collection of letters written by Werther, a young artist of a sensitive and passionate temperament, to his friend Wilhelm. These give an intimate account of his stay in the fictional village of Wahlheim (based on , near Wetzlar), whose peasants have enchanted him with their simple ways. There he meets Charl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
