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Stunning (play)
''Stunning'' is a dramatic stage play written by American playwright David Adjmi. The play tells the story of sixteen-year-old Lily, who lives in a Syrian-Jewish community in Brooklyn with her much older husband. Her worldview changes after an unlikely friendship with her African-American maid. Production history Washington D.C. (2008) The play premiered in Washington D.C with the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, running from March 10-April 6. The production was directed by Anne Kauffman. The show was nominated for five Helen Hayes Awards, including for the Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play or Musical. Off-Broadway (2009) The play premiered Off-Broadway at The Duke On 42nd Street Theatre, with performance dates from June 1-June 28, 2009, again directed by Kaufman. For her performance, Cristin Milioti was nominated for a Lucille Lortel Lucille Lortel (née Wadler, December 16, 1900 – April 4, 1999) was an American actress, artistic director, and theatrica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Adjmi
David Adjmi (born 1973) is an American playwright. He is the recipient of a Tony Award, a Drama Desk Award, a New York Drama Critics' Circle Award, an Outer Critics Circle Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Award, the inaugural Steinberg Playwright Award, a Bush Artists Fellowship, and the Kesselring Prize for Drama. In 2020, he released a memoir about the struggle to become an artist, titled ''Lot Six''. His plays include '' Stunning'' (2008) and ''Stereophonic'' (2023), the latter winning the Tony Award for Best Play. Life Adjmi grew up in a Syrian Jewish family in Midwood, Brooklyn. He is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College (1995), the Playwrights Workshop at the University of Iowa (MFA 2001), and the Juilliard School's American Playwrights Program (2003). As of 2010, he resided in Brooklyn Heights. Career Adjmi's play ''The Evildoers'' was developed at the Sundance Institute and the Royal Court Theatre in London. It premiered in January 2008 at the Yale Repertory T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brooklyn
Brooklyn is a Boroughs of New York City, borough of New York City located at the westernmost end of Long Island in the New York (state), State of New York. Formerly an independent city, the borough is coextensive with Kings County, one of twelve original counties established under English rule in 1683 in what was then the Province of New York. As of the 2020 United States census, the population stood at 2,736,074, making it the most populous of the five boroughs of New York City, and the most populous Administrative divisions of New York (state)#County, county in the state.Table 2: Population, Land Area, and Population Density by County, New York State - 2020 New York State Department of Health. Accessed January 2, 2024. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company is a non-profit theatre company located at 641 D Street NW in the Penn Quarter neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded in 1980, it produces new plays which it believes to be edgy, challenging, and thought-provoking. Performances are in a 265-seat courtyard-style theater. Woolly Mammoth is led by Artistic Director Maria Manuela Goyanes, a celebrated American theatre producer, and Managing Director Kimberly E. Douglas. History Woolly Mammoth was founded by Howard Shalwitz, Roger Brady, and Linda Reinisch in 1980. "While working odd jobs to make money, we held our first auditions outdoors in Glover Park and started improvisatory workshops in the auditorium of the HHS building." It opened its first season in The Church of the Epiphany parish hall near Metro Center. Outgrowing this initial home, the company rented a warehouse in the 14th Street corridor, where it performed for 13 years. When that space ceased to be available, Woolly Mammoth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Language
English is a West Germanic language that developed in early medieval England and has since become a English as a lingua franca, global lingua franca. The namesake of the language is the Angles (tribe), Angles, one of the Germanic peoples that Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, migrated to Britain after its End of Roman rule in Britain, Roman occupiers left. English is the list of languages by total number of speakers, most spoken language in the world, primarily due to the global influences of the former British Empire (succeeded by the Commonwealth of Nations) and the United States. English is the list of languages by number of native speakers, third-most spoken native language, after Mandarin Chinese and Spanish language, Spanish; it is also the most widely learned second language in the world, with more second-language speakers than native speakers. English is either the official language or one of the official languages in list of countries and territories where English ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Play (theatre)
A play is a form of drama that primarily consists of dialogue between Character (arts), characters and is intended for theatre, theatrical performance rather than mere Reading (process), reading. The creator of a play is known as a playwright. Plays are staged at various levels, ranging from London's West End theatre, West End and New York City's Broadway theatre, Broadway – the highest echelons of commercial theatre in the English-speaking world – to Regional theater in the United States, regional theatre, community theatre, and academic productions at universities and schools. A stage play is specifically crafted for performance on stage, distinct from works meant for broadcast or cinematic adaptation. They are presented on a stage before a live audience. Some dramatists, notably George Bernard Shaw, have shown little preference for whether their plays are performed or read. The term "play" encompasses the written texts of playwrights and their complete theatrical renditio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Kauffman
Anne Kauffman is an American director known primarily for her work on new plays, mainly in the New York area. She is a founding member of the theater group the Civilians.Grode, Eric"Meet the Directors"''New York Times'', January 31, 2013 She made her Broadway debut with the Scott McPherson play '' Marvin's Room'' (2017) and returned with the revival of the Lorraine Hansberry play ''The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window'' (2023) and '' Mary Jane'' (2024). Early life and education Kauffman received her undergraduate degree from Stanford University and her MFA from the graduate directing program at UCSD. Kauffman has said: "I'm attracted to plays that need the theater and belong only to the theater,...I've always been very interested in writers who have a kind of mystery to them--something that makes me work a little hard and is compelling and mysterious...trying to get at the world from a slightly odd angle....I do love working with a playwright more than once."Onofri, Adrienne with ... [...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] |
Helen Hayes Awards
The Helen Hayes Awards are theater awards recognizing excellence in professional theater in the Washington, D.C. area since 1983. The awards are named in tribute of Helen Hayes, who is also known as the "First Lady of American Theatre." They are presented by Theatre Washington (formerly known as the Helen Hayes Awards organization), sponsored by TodayTix, a ticketing company, and supported in part by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, The Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation, The Share Fund, Prince Charitable Trust, and Craig Pascal and Victor Shargai. History In 1983, together with producing partner Arthur Cantor and ''Washington Post'' critic emeritus Richard L. Coe, Broadway producer Bonnie Nelson Schwartz presented a plan for strengthening and cultivating theatre in her home city, Washington, D.C., to the first lady of the American theatre and native Washingtonian, Helen Hayes, who embraced the idea. The Washington ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cristin Milioti
Cristin Milioti (born August 16, 1985) is an American actress. She is known for playing The Mother, The Mother (How I Met Your Mother), Tracy McConnell, in the CBS sitcom ''How I Met Your Mother'' from 2013 to 2014, and Sofia Falcone in the HBO crime drama series ''The Penguin (TV series), The Penguin'' (2024). The latter earned her a Critics' Choice Television Award and a nomination for a Golden Globe Award. She appeared in theater productions such as ''That Face'' (2010) and the musical ''Once (musical), Once'' (2011–2013), for which she won a Grammy Award and was nominated for a Tony Award. Milioti also featured in the 2013 film ''The Wolf of Wall Street (2013 film), The Wolf of Wall Street'', the 2020 film ''Palm Springs (2020 film), Palm Springs'', the Fargo season 2, second season of the FX (TV channel), FX anthology crime series ''Fargo (TV series), Fargo'' (2015), the HBO Max comedy series ''Made for Love (TV series), Made for Love'' (2021–2022), Peacock (streaming s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucille Lortel
Lucille Lortel (née Wadler, December 16, 1900 – April 4, 1999) was an American actress, artistic director, and theatrical producer. In the course of her career Lortel produced or co-produced nearly 500 plays, five of which were nominated for Tony Awards: ''As Is'' by William M. Hoffman, ''Angels Fall'' by Lanford Wilson, ''Blood Knot'' by Athol Fugard, Mbongeni Ngema's '' Sarafina!'', and '' A Walk in the Woods'' by Lee Blessing. She also produced Marc Blitzstein's adaptation of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's '' Threepenny Opera'', a production which ran for seven years and according to ''The New York Times'' "caused such a sensation that it...put Off-Broadway on the map." Early life and acting career Lortel was born Lucille Wadler on December 16, 1900, at 153 Attorney Street in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, one of four children of Anny and Harris Wadler, Jewish immigrants of Polish descent. Her father was a manufacturer of women's clothes who frequently traveled to Eu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quincy Tyler Bernstine
Quincy Tyler Bernstine is an American actress and audiobook narrator. In 2019, she won the Obie Award for Sustained Excellence of Performance. Education Bernstine has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Brown University and Master of Fine Arts from the University of California, San Diego. Filmography Film Television Podcasts Theatre * ''Matt & Ben'' (2004) as Ben * ''A Small, Melodramatic Story'' (2006) as O * ''(I am) Nobody’s Lunch'' (2006) as Performer * ''The Misanthrope'' (2007) as Éliante * '' In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play)'' (2009) as Elizabeth * ''Ruined'' (2010) as Salima * ''Family Week'' (2010) as Rickey * ''born bad'' (2011) as Sister #1 * ''Red-Handed Otter'' (2012) as Estelle * ''We Are Proud to Present a Presentation…'' (2012) as Black Woman * '' Mr. Burns'' (2013) as Quincy * ''Neva'' (2013) as Masha * ''Grand Concourse'' (2014) as Shelly * ''10 out of 12'' (2015) as Stage Manager * '' The Nether'' (2015) as Detective Morris * ''Peer Gynt'' (2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlayne Woodard
Charlaine "Charlayne" Woodard (born December 29, 1953) is an American playwright and actress. She is a two-time Obie Award winner as well as a Tony Award and Drama Desk nominee. She was a series regular on the hit FX TV series '' Pose''. She played the title role in the Showtime movie ''Run For The Dream: The Gail Devers’ Story''. Starring as '' Cindy'' in the ABC Movie of the Week, Woodard was the first black Cinderella portrayed on TV or film. She is in Marvel Studios' miniseries '' Secret Invasion'' as Priscilla Fury, which premiered on June 21, 2023. Career Woodard began her professional career in 1976 performing in the road company of ''Don't Bother Me I Can't Cope'', written by Micki Grant and directed by Vinette Carroll, the first black female director on Broadway. In 1977, she made her Broadway debut in the revival of ''Hair'', directed by Tom O’Horgan; played a supporting role in the movie version of ''Hair'', directed by Milos Forman; starred as Cindy in the N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
