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The Whipping Man
''The Whipping Man'' is a play by Matthew López set in the immediate aftermath of the American Civil War during Passover. History The play debuted at Luna Stage in Montclair, New Jersey in 2006 and premiered Off-Broadway at the Manhattan Theatre Club on February 1, 2011, directed by Doug Hughes and starring Andre Braugher and Andre Holland. The Off-Broadway production of ''The Whipping Man'' was extended four times, and won the 2011 Obie Award for Performance (Braugher) and the 2011 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lighting Design. López won the John Gassner New Play Award. ''The Whipping Man'' was Matthew López's first play. Braugher and Holland both earned critical acclaim for their performances. Between 2012 and 2016, ''The Whipping Man'' was one of the most widely produced plays in America. Setting and plot ''The Whipping Man'' is set in a looted and burned Richmond, Virginia mansion in the immediate aftermath of the American Civil War and concerns two recently ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew López (writer)
Matthew López is an American playwright, director and screenwriter. His play '' The Inheritance'', directed by Stephen Daldry, premiered at London's Young Vic in 2018, where it was called "the most important American play of the century." It transferred to the West End later that year, and opened on Broadway In 2019. '' The Inheritance'' is the most honored American play in a generation, sweeping the "Best Play" awards in both London and New York including the Tony Award, Olivier Award, Drama Desk Award, Evening Standard Award, London Critics Circle Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, Drama League Award, WhatsOnStage Award, and the Southbank Sky Arts Award. He is the first Latino writer to win the Tony Award for Best Play. In 2023, López received a second Tony Award nomination for co-writing the book of the musical adaptation of the classic film ''Some Like It Hot,'' which received the most nominations of any show that season. His two Broadway productions have been nominat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richmond, Virginia
Richmond ( ) is the List of capitals in the United States, capital city of the Commonwealth (U.S. state), U.S. commonwealth of Virginia. Incorporated in 1742, Richmond has been an independent city (United States), independent city since 1871. The city's population in the 2020 United States census was 226,610, up from 204,214 in 2010, making it Virginia's List of cities and counties in Virginia#Largest cities, fourth-most populous city. The Greater Richmond Region, Richmond metropolitan area, with over 1.3 million residents, is the Commonwealth's Virginia statistical areas, third-most populous. Richmond is located at the Atlantic Seaboard fall line, James River's fall line, west of Williamsburg, Virginia, Williamsburg, east of Charlottesville, Virginia, Charlottesville, east of Lynchburg, Virginia, Lynchburg and south of Washington, D.C. Surrounded by Henrico County, Virginia, Henrico and Chesterfield County, Virginia, Chesterfield counties, Richmond is at the intersection o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
History Of The Jews In The Southern United States
American Jews, Jews have inhabited the Southern United States since the late 1600s when several waves of Spanish and Portuguese Jews, Western Sephardim and a minority of Ashkenazi Jews, Ashkenazim settled in the European colonies of Thirteen Colonies, Britain, New France, France, and New Spain, Spain. The community has since contributed to the vibrant cultural and historical legacy of the South in many ways. Although the United States' Jewish population is more often thought to be concentrated in Northern cities, such as New York City, New York, thousands of Jewish immigrants chose to settle in the more rural Southern United States forming tight-knit religious communities and creating a unique cultural identity. Jewish immigrants came to the South from various countries, backgrounds and religious traditions within Judaism. Major Jewish communities include Memphis, Tennessee; Houston, Texas; Savannah, Georgia; Charleston, South Carolina; Charlottesville, Virginia; and Wilmington, No ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Inheritance (play)
''The Inheritance'' is a play by Matthew López, inspired by the 1910 novel ''Howards End'' by E. M. Forster. The play premiered in London at the Young Vic in March 2018, before transferring to Broadway in November 2019. Productions Off-West End (2018) The play was commissioned by Hartford Stage in Hartford, Connecticut. The play was produced in London at the Young Vic Theatre under the direction of Stephen Daldry in March 2018. The play was staged in two parts of over three hours each, intended to be viewed sequentially, and reimagines E. M. Forster's ''Howards End'' as "a lovingly wry portrait of New York's gay community", "with gay men from different generations standing in for Forster's straight people from different classes". Lopez found parallels between his own life and Forster's closeted existence before the partial-decriminalisation of homosexuality, telling ''The New Yorker'': "We're so far apart, and yet when I read his diaries—that’s ''me''. That's me, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
African-American Jews
African-American Jews are people who are both African Americans, African American and American Jews, Jewish, whether by mixed ancestry or conversion. African-American Jews may be either Who is a Jew?, Jewish from birth or Gerim, converts to Judaism. Many African-American Jews are of mixed heritage, having both non-Jewish African-American and non-Black Jewish ancestors. Many African-American Jews identify as Jews of color, but some do not. Black American Jews from History of the Jews in Africa, Africa, such as the Beta Israel from History of the Jews in Ethiopia, Ethiopia, may or may not identify as African-American Jews. History Early history Jews with African ancestry have lived in the Americas since the colonial era. Black Jews during the colonial era were often Slavery in the United States, enslaved people or their American Descendants of Slavery, descendants. Before the 1820s, the largest Jewish communities in the Americas were in the Caribbean, as were the largest commu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Isherwood
Charles Splaine Isherwood Jr. (born October 1964) is an American theater critic. Career A graduate of Stanford University, Isherwood wrote for '' Backstage West'' in Los Angeles. In 1993, he joined the staff of '' Variety'', where he was promoted to the position of chief theatre critic in 1998. In 2004, Isherwood was hired by ''The New York Times''. He was fired by the paper in 2017, reportedly following public disputes with colleagues and correspondence with theatre producers that "violated ethical rules." In March 2017, Isherwood was hired as a contributor for the website ''Broadway News''. In 2022, Isherwood was appointed ''The Wall Street Journal''s theater critic, succeeding Terry Teachout, who had died on January 13, 2022. Personal life Charles Splaine Isherwood Jr. was one of four children born to Charles Splaine "Charlie" Isherwood and Patricia (McInerney) Isherwood. He is married to Ercument Kenger. References External links ''The Wall Street Journal'' hire is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ironies
Irony, in its broadest sense, is the juxtaposition of what, on the surface, appears to be the case with what is actually or expected to be the case. Originally a rhetorical device and literary technique, in modern times irony has also come to assume a metaphysical significance with implications for the correct human attitude towards life. The concept originated in ancient Greece, where it described a dramatic character who pretended to be less intelligent than he actually was in order to outwit boastful opponents. Over time, ''irony'' evolved from denoting a form of deception to, more liberally, describing the deliberate use of language to mean the opposite of what it says for a rhetorical effect intended to be recognized by the audience. Due to its double-sided nature, irony is a powerful tool for social bonding among those who share an understanding. For the same reason, it is also a source of division, sorting people into insiders and outsiders depending upon whether the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Appomattox Court House
The Battle of Appomattox Court House, fought in Appomattox County, Virginia, on the morning of April 9, 1865, was one of the last, and ultimately one of the most consequential, battles of the American Civil War (1861–1865). It was the final engagement of Confederate General in Chief Robert E. Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia before they surrendered to the Union Army of the Potomac under the Commanding General of the United States Army, Ulysses S. Grant. Lee, having abandoned the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, after the nine-and-a-half-month Siege of Petersburg and Richmond, retreated west, hoping to join his army with Confederate forces, the Army of Tennessee in North Carolina. Union infantry and cavalry forces under General Philip Sheridan pursued and cut off the Confederates' retreat at the central Virginia village of Appomattox Court House. Lee launched a last-ditch attack to break through the Union forces to his front, assuming the Union force consiste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucille Lortel Award
The Lucille Lortel Awards recognize excellence in New York Off-Broadway theatre. The Awards are named for Lucille Lortel, an actress and theater producer, and have been awarded since 1986. They are produced by the League of Off-Broadway Theatres and Producers by special arrangement with the Lucille Lortel Foundation, with additional support from the Theatre Development Fund. Other awards for off-Broadway theatre (although not necessarily exclusive to off-Broadway theatre) include the Drama League Award, Outer Critics Circle Awards, Drama Desk Awards and the Obie Awards, as well as the Henry Hewes Design Awards presented by the American Theatre Wing. Voting committee The voting committee is composed of representatives from the Off-Broadway League, Actors' Equity Association, Stage Directors & Choreographers Society, the Lucille Lortel Foundation, as well as theatre journalists, academics, and other Off-Broadway professionals.Hetrick, Adam"'Fun Home', 'Here Lies Love', 'Buye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Civil War
The American Civil War (April 12, 1861May 26, 1865; also known by Names of the American Civil War, other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union (American Civil War), Union ("the North") and the Confederate States of America, Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by U.S. state, states that had Secession in the United States, seceded from the Union. The Origins of the American Civil War, central conflict leading to war was a dispute over whether Slavery in the United States, slavery should be permitted to expand into the western territories, leading to more slave states, or be prohibited from doing so, which many believed would place slavery on a course of ultimate extinction. Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War, Decades of controversy over slavery came to a head when Abraham Lincoln, who opposed slavery's expansion, won the 1860 presidential election. Seven Southern slave states responded to Lincoln's victory by seceding f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Obie Award
The Obie Awards or Off-Broadway Theater Awards are annual awards given since 1956 by ''The Village Voice'' newspaper to theater artists and groups involved in off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway productions in New York City. Starting just after the 2014 ceremony, the American Theatre Wing became the joint presenter and administrative manager of the Obie Awards. The Obie Awards are considered off-Broadway's highest honor, similar to the Tony Awards for Broadway productions. Background The Obie Awards were initiated by critic Jerry Tallmer and Edwin (Ed) Fancher, publisher of ''The Village Voice,'' who handled the financing and business side of the project. They were first given in 1956 under the direction of Tallmer. Initially, only off-Broadway productions were eligible; in 1964, off-off-Broadway productions were made eligible. The first Obie Awards ceremony was held at Helen Gee's cafe.Aletti, Vince"Helen Gee 1919–2004" ''Village Voice'' (New York City), 12 October 2004, ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Holland
André Holland (born December 28, 1979) is an American actor. He is widely known for his 2016 performance as Kevin in the Academy Award-winning film ''Moonlight''. Holland has acted in film, television, and theatre productions. He starred as Dr. Algernon Edwards in the Cinemax series '' The Knick'' (2014–2015) and as Matt Miller in the FX series '' American Horror Story: Roanoke'' (2016). He portrayed politician and activist Andrew Young in the 2014 film '' Selma'' and sportswriter Wendell Smith in the 2013 film '' 42''. On stage, he has starred in August Wilson's play ''Jitney'' on Broadway in 2017. He plays a lead role on the 2020 Netflix musical drama series '' The Eddy'', directed by Damien Chazelle. Early life and education André Holland was born on December 28, 1979 in Bessemer, Alabama and grew up there. He graduated from John Carroll Catholic High School in Birmingham. His first stage performance was in a production of ''Oliver!'' at the Birmingham Summerfest T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
