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Straight White Men
''Straight White Men'' is a 2014 American play by Young Jean Lee. The play's 2018 production at the Hayes Theater made Lee the first Asian American woman to have a play produced on Broadway. Background Much of ''Straight White Men'' was born out of a workshop Lee conducted with a group of women, people of color, and LGBTQ people. Lee was cognizant that the umbrella term "straight white man" represented the default "other" for marginalized groups, and so asked the workshop attendees what they thought of straight white men, and how they would prefer straight white men behave. After a lengthy discussion, the group decided the ideal straight white man was someone who was not aggressive, who was passive in social justice spaces, and overall did not interfere with their causes. Lee took the ideas and created a straight white male character that fit the workshop's description: this became the character of Matt in the finished play. When Lee brought the character back to the workshop, h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Young Jean Lee
Young Jean Lee (born 1974) is an American playwright, director, and filmmaker. She was the Artistic Director of Young Jean Lee's Theater Company, a not-for-profit theater company dedicated to producing her work. She has written and directed ten shows for Young Jean Lee's Theater Company and toured her work to over thirty cities around the world. Lee was called "the most adventurous downtown playwright of her generation" by Charles Isherwood in ''The New York Times'' and "one of the best experimental playwrights in America" by David Cote in Time Out New York. With the 2018 production of '' Straight White Men'' at the Hayes Theater, Lee became the first Asian American woman to have a play produced on Broadway. Background Lee was born in South Korea and moved to the United States when she was two years old. She grew up in Pullman, Washington and attended college at UC Berkeley, where she majored in English and graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. Immediately after colleg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Austin Pendleton
Austin Campbell Pendleton (born March 27, 1940) is an American actor, playwright, theatre director, and instructor. Pendleton is known as a prolific character actor on the stage and screen, whose six-decade career has included roles in films including ''Catch-22 (film), Catch-22'' (1970); ''What's Up, Doc? (1972 film), What's Up, Doc?'' (1972); ''The Front Page (1974 film), The Front Page'' (1974); ''The Muppet Movie'' (1979), ''Short Circuit (1986 film), Short Circuit'' (1986); ''Mr. & Mrs. Bridge'' (1990); ''My Cousin Vinny'' (1992); ''Mr. Nanny'' (1993); ''Guarding Tess'' (1994); ''Amistad (film), Amistad'' (1997); ''A Beautiful Mind (film), A Beautiful Mind'' (2001), which earned him a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture nomination; and ''Finding Nemo'' (2003). Pendleton received a Tony Award nomination for Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play, Best Direction of a Play for the Broadway (theatre), Broadway revival of ''The L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Plays
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2014 Plays
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Hilton Als
Hilton Als (born 1960) is an American writer and theater critic. He is a teaching professor at the University of California, Berkeley, an associate professor of writing at Columbia University and a staff writer and theater critic for ''The New Yorker''. He is a former staff writer for ''The Village Voice'' and former editor-at-large at '' Vibe'' magazine. In June 2020, Als was named an inaugural Presidential Visiting Scholar at Princeton University for the 2020–2021 academic year. Background and career Hilton Als was born in New York City, with roots in Barbados. Raised in Brownsville, Brooklyn, he has four older sisters and one younger brother. He studied toward a bachelor's in art history from Columbia University. His 1996 book ''The Women'' focuses on his mother (who raised him in Brooklyn), Dorothy Dean, and Owen Dodson, who was a mentor and lover of Als. In the book, Als explores his identification of the confluence of his ethnicity, gender and sexuality, moving from i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New Yorker
''The New Yorker'' is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. It was founded on February 21, 1925, by Harold Ross and his wife Jane Grant, a reporter for ''The New York Times''. Together with entrepreneur Raoul H. Fleischmann, they established the F-R Publishing Company and set up the magazine's first office in Manhattan. Ross remained the editor until his death in 1951, shaping the magazine's editorial tone and standards. ''The New Yorker''s fact-checking operation is widely recognized among journalists as one of its strengths. Although its reviews and events listings often focused on the Culture of New York City, cultural life of New York City, ''The New Yorker'' gained a reputation for publishing serious essays, long-form journalism, well-regarded fiction, and humor for a national and international audience, including work by writers such as Truman Capote, Vladimir Nabokov, and Alice Munro. In the late ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denis Arndt
Denis Leroy Arndt (February 23, 1939 – March 25, 2025) was an American actor, best known for his starring role as Alex Priest in the play '' Heisenberg'' for which he earned a 2017 Tony Award nomination for Best Actor in a Play. Life and career Denis Arndt served in the Vietnam War as a United States Army helicopter pilot, earning a Purple Heart and Commendation Medal. After the war, Arndt flew helicopters in Alaska for several years before completing a degree at the University of Washington. He joined the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Oregon where he completed 15 seasons and was a charter member of Seattle's Intiman Theatre. After Kenneth Welsh exited rehearsals of the play '' Heisenberg'', Arndt was cast and joined the Manhattan Theater Club's production, which opened June 3, 2015. The production moved to Broadway's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre on October 13, 2016. Arndt had also appeared in guest roles on a number of television shows including ''The Good Fight ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Skerritt
Thomas Roy Skerritt (born August 25, 1933) is an American actor and director, who has appeared in over 170 film and television productions since 1962. The beginning of his film career coincided with the New Hollywood movement, with a breakthrough role as Duke Forrest in Robert Altman's ''M*A*S*H''. He then starred in notable films like '' The Turning Point'', ''Up in Smoke'', '' Ice Castles'', '' Alien'', '' The Dead Zone'', ''Top Gun'', and '' A River Runs Through It''. On television, Skerritt played the leading role of Sheriff Jimmy Brock on the family drama ''Picket Fences'' (1992-96), earning a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, as well as two Golden Globe Award nominations. He also had a recurring role as Evan Drake on the sixth season of sitcom ''Cheers'' (1987-88). Skerritt is also a three-time Screen Actors Guild Award nominee, a Genie Award nominee, an American Television Award nominee, and is both a Saturn Award and Western Heritage A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Schneider (actor)
Paul Andrew Schneider (born March 16, 1976) is an American actor best known for his portrayal of Dick Liddil in the epic western film '' The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford'' (2007) and his lead role as Mark Brendanawicz on the first and second seasons of the NBC political satirical sitcom '' Parks and Recreation'' (2009–10). He also appeared in lead roles in the romantic drama film '' All the Real Girls'' (2003) and the comedy film '' The Babymakers'' (2012), the former of which he co-wrote with David Gordon Green and was nominated for the Gotham Independent Film Award for Breakthrough Performer. He has since appeared in supporting roles in films such as '' Elizabethtown'' (2005), '' Lars and the Real Girl'' (2007), '' Away We Go'' (2009), ''Water for Elephants'' (2011), '' Hello Carter'' (2013), '' Rules Don't Apply'' (2016), '' Brothers by Blood'' (2020), and '' American Murderer'' (2022). For his portrayal of Charles Armitage Brown in the biogra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josh Charles
Joshua Aaron Charles (born September 15, 1971) is an American film, television, and theater actor. He is best known for the roles of Dan Rydell on '' Sports Night, '' Will Gardner on '' The Good Wife'', which earned him two Primetime Emmy Award nominations, and his early work as Knox Overstreet in '' Dead Poets Society'' and Bryan from '' Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead''. Early life Charles is the son of Allan Charles, an advertising executive, and Laura Peyton. He is Jewish on his father's side, and he has described himself as Jewish. He began his career performing comedy at the age of 9. As a teenager, he spent several summers at Stagedoor Manor Performing Arts Center in New York. He attended the Baltimore School for the Arts, where he was a classmate of Jada Pinkett and Tupac Shakur. Career Charles' film debut was in fellow Baltimore native John Waters' '' Hairspray'' in 1988. The following year, he starred alongside Robin Williams and Ethan Hawke in '' Dead Poets ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armie Hammer
Armand Douglas Hammer (born August 28, 1986) is an American actor. He began his acting career with guest appearances in several television series. His first leading role was as Billy Graham in the 2008 film '' Billy: The Early Years'' and Hammer gained wider recognition for portraying the twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss in David Fincher's biopic ''The Social Network'' (2010). Hammer portrayed Clyde Tolson in the biopic '' J. Edgar'' (2011), played the titular character in the western '' The Lone Ranger'' (2013), and starred as Illya Kuryakin in the action film '' The Man from U.N.C.L.E.'' (2015). In 2017, he starred in Luca Guadagnino's romantic drama '' Call Me by Your Name'', for which he received a nomination for the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor. The following year, Hammer portrayed Martin D. Ginsburg in the biopic '' On the Basis of Sex'' (2018). On Broadway, he starred in a production of '' Straight White Men'' in 2018. In 2021, multiple women came f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna D
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