One of the most important and fulfilling aspects of the performer’s work is that of collaboration; though actors team up with a variety of artists and elements throughout the creative processes, the script itself is often the greatest collaborator of all. Here are six exciting young playwrights whose bold works have set the scene for 21st century actors, giving voice to our modern experience and shaping the next phase of the American theater. David AdjmiThis acclaimed young playwright has commanded audiences since his 2008 hit “The Evildoers.” His plays “Stunning” and “Marie Antoinette” had successful runs Off-Broadway and continue to be produced across the country, while “3C,” a tongue-in-cheek satire of “Three’s Company,” faced major controversy when the defunct sitcom’s lawyers claimed copyright infringement; after an outpouring of support from the artistic community, “3C” was later named one of the top ten plays of 2012. Reading list: “Stunning” (2009), “Elective Affinities...
- 11/18/2014
- backstage.com
Sleepytime Drama: Bellocchio Messy Message Movie
After yet another career peak with his 2009 film Vincere, Italian auteur Marco Bellocchio continues his examination of Italian society with Dormant Beauty, a treatise on Italy’s hot button issue of euthanasia. Bellocchio managed to score one of the cinema’s most talented actresses ever to appear on screen when he signed French actress Isabelle Huppert (no stranger to Italian cinema (see a 1996 Goethe adaptation, Elective Affinities from Vittorio and Paolo Taviani), so it’s so unfortunate that this latest endeavor is so unconvincing in all regards.
At the core, based on a true story, the film revolves around three separate storylines, all going on in the last 8 days of Eluana Englaro’s life in February, 2009. Her father, Beppe Englaro, had decided to take his daughter off of life support after she’d been in a coma for 17 years, which divided the country concerning...
After yet another career peak with his 2009 film Vincere, Italian auteur Marco Bellocchio continues his examination of Italian society with Dormant Beauty, a treatise on Italy’s hot button issue of euthanasia. Bellocchio managed to score one of the cinema’s most talented actresses ever to appear on screen when he signed French actress Isabelle Huppert (no stranger to Italian cinema (see a 1996 Goethe adaptation, Elective Affinities from Vittorio and Paolo Taviani), so it’s so unfortunate that this latest endeavor is so unconvincing in all regards.
At the core, based on a true story, the film revolves around three separate storylines, all going on in the last 8 days of Eluana Englaro’s life in February, 2009. Her father, Beppe Englaro, had decided to take his daughter off of life support after she’d been in a coma for 17 years, which divided the country concerning...
- 6/6/2014
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
The third annual Lilly Awards, which recognize the contributions of women working in the theater, were presented Monday, June 4, at Playwrights Horizons in New York. At a time when women are underrepresented on New York stages, the awards were created by the Committee for Recognizing Women in Theater as a way to draw attention to their achievements.Honorees included actors Cristin Milioti ("Once") and Nina Arianda ("Venus in Fur"), directors Diane Paulus ("The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess") and Sarah Benson ("Elective Affinities"), playwrights Katori Hall ("The Mountaintop") and Leslye Headland ("Assistance"), and set designer Heidi Ettinger. Milioti, Arianda, and Paulus are also nominated for 2012 Tony Awards.Lifetime achievement awards were given to multiple Tony Award nominee Estelle Parsons, who is currently performing in the musical "Nice Work If You Can Get It" on Broadway, and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Tina Howe, whose play "Painting Churches" had an Off-Broadway revival this.
- 6/5/2012
- by help@backstage.com (Daniel Lehman)
- backstage.com
What do Alan Cumming, Josh Radnor, Michael Urie, and Jim Parsons have in common besides appearing on TV? They are all returning to the stage within the next year. The Good Wife’s Cumming (who earned a Tony in 1998 for playing Cabaret’s Master of Ceremonies) announced this week that he’s bringing his one-man Macbeth to the Lincoln Center Festival in July. How I Met Your Mother’s Radnor spoke out about his voice preparations for singing in next Monday’s She Loves Me benefit at the Roundabout. Ugly Betty’s Urie revealed that he’s stepping in to...
- 12/3/2011
- by Aubry D'Arminio
- EW.com - PopWatch
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