"The Night of the Iguana (film) The Night of the Iguana is a 1964 film based on the 1961 play of the same name written by Tennessee Williams. Directed by John Huston, it featured Richard Burton, Ava Gardner, and Deborah Kerr. The film won the 1964 Academy Award for Best Costume Design, and was nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Art Direction and Best Cinematography. Actress Grayson Hall received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress, and Cyril Delevanti received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actor. ""The Night of the Iguana"" drew considerable attention for its"
"The Night of the Iguana. In addition to his film history, Arata has extensive theater experience, including acting and producing the works of Tennessee Williams, Caryl Churchill, Tony Kushner, and William Shakespeare. In 1997, American Theatre Magazine hailed Arata's performance of Stanley Kowalski in the 50th anniversary production of Tennessee Williams' classic A Streetcar Named Desire as ""unhinged and electrifying"", and reviewer Dalt Wonk called the performance ""a Stanley for our times"". Prior to Hurricane Katrina, Arata produced Shakespeare in City Park in New Orleans, the city's only outdoor theater, as well as several productions in conjunction with the Tennessee"
"entitled, """"Time, Fantasy, and Reality in Night of the Iguana""."" It is published as a review of Thomas Lanier ""Tennessee"" Williams III's screenplay, ""The Night of the Iguana."" He now teaches foreign languages in the Los Angeles City Schools, and still writes minimally for television. In addition to his review of Tennessee Williams' work, Leon has also completed a book on the dramatic uses of time in Williams' plays, which was scheduled to be published in 2014. Ferdinand Leon Ferdinand Leon (born 1922) was an African American writer who wrote for television shows. Ferdinand Leon was born on January 29,"
"died at New York's Roosevelt Hospital in 1984. Howard Richardson (playwright) Howard Dixon Richardson (December 2, 1917 – December 30, 1984) was an American playwright, best known for the 1945 play ""Dark of the Moon"". Born in Spartanburg, South Carolina, Richardson graduated in 1938 from the University of North Carolina and then traveled through Europe (1938–39), returning to the University of North Carolina in 1940 for his M.A. From 1940 to 1942, he studied at the University of Iowa, where he wrote the play ""Barbara Allen"" (published in 1942), aka ""Night Song"", inspired by the Scottish-English folk song, ""The Ballad"
"Howard Richardson (playwright) Howard Dixon Richardson (December 2, 1917 – December 30, 1984) was an American playwright, best known for the 1945 play ""Dark of the Moon"". Born in Spartanburg, South Carolina, Richardson graduated in 1938 from the University of North Carolina and then traveled through Europe (1938–39), returning to the University of North Carolina in 1940 for his M.A. From 1940 to 1942, he studied at the University of Iowa, where he wrote the play ""Barbara Allen"" (published in 1942), aka ""Night Song"", inspired by the Scottish-English folk song, ""The Ballad of Barbara Allen"". He served with the Army"
"Sinatra. Gardner and Evans's friendship subsequently cooled, and Evans left the project. Evans's notes and sections of his draft of Gardner's autobiography, which he based on their taped conversations, were published in the book ""Ava Gardner: The Secret Conversations"" after Evans's death in 2012. Gardner was nominated for an Academy Award for ""Mogambo"" (1953); the award was won by Audrey Hepburn for ""Roman Holiday"". Her performance as Maxine Faulk in ""The Night of the Iguana"" (1964) was well reviewed, and she was nominated for a BAFTA Award and a Golden Globe. Additionally, Ava Gardner won the 1964 Prize San Sebastián"
"diction"". He wrote ""The Night of the Iguana"" (1961) with Hepburn in mind, but the actress, although flattered, felt the play was wrong for her and declined the part, which went to Bette Davis. Hepburn returned to Stratford in the summer of 1960 to play Viola in ""Twelfth Night"", and Cleopatra in ""Antony and Cleopatra"". The ""New York Post"" wrote of her Cleopatra, ""Hepburn offers a highly versatile performance ... once or twice going in for her famous mannerisms and always being fascinating to watch."" Hepburn herself was proud of the role. Her repertoire was further improved when she appeared"
"The Time of the Cuckoo The Time of the Cuckoo is a play by Arthur Laurents. It focuses on the bittersweet romance between Leona Samish, a single American executive secretary vacationing in Europe, and Renato Di Rossi, a shopkeeper she meets in Venice. Di Rossi, trapped in a loveless marriage, relentlessly pursues Leona, who initially is shocked by the thought of an illicit affair but eventually succumbs to the Italian's charms. The Broadway production was directed by Harold Clurman. The play opened at the Empire Theater on October 15, 1952 and closed on May 30, 1953 after 263 performances. The"
"The Rules of the Game (play) The Rules of the Game ( ) is a play by Luigi Pirandello. It was written and first performed during 1918 (and first published in 1919) at the time when his wife was suffering from mental illness, but before she was committed to a mental hospital. It was first performed at the Teatro Quirino in Rome, with Ruggero Ruggeri as Leone. The Italian title means ""The Game of Roles"", but the play is not usually published with that title in English. The characters in Pirandello's better-known work ""Six Characters in Search of an Author"""
"Edward Albee Edward Franklin Albee III ( ; March 12, 1928 – September 16, 2016) was an American playwright known for works such as ""The Zoo Story"" (1958), ""The Sandbox"" (1959), ""Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"" (1962), and ""A Delicate Balance"" (1966). Three of his plays won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and two of his other works won the Tony Award for Best Play. His works are often considered as frank examinations of the modern condition. His early works reflect a mastery and Americanization of the Theatre of the Absurd that found its peak in works by European playwrights"
"The School of Night (play) The School of Night is a play by Peter Whelan. It was first performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company at The Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon on 4 November 1992. The play takes place between the Summer of 1592 and Spring 1593. It concerns the life of Christopher Marlowe and the mystery surrounding his untimely death during a brawl in Deptford, set against a backdrop of a politically and religiously divided England where the state and its spies watch those who may be accused of sedition, treason and blasphemy. In Scadbury Park, the home of Thomas Walsingham,"
"a resemblance to him. He then joined the Army, but went AWOL, and after serving a sentence in a military prison, he moved to New York, where he began his acting career. His mother died when he was 19. Jones (adopting the stage name Christopher) made his Broadway debut on December 17, 1961, in Tennessee Williams's ""The Night of the Iguana"", directed by Frank Corsaro and starring Shelley Winters. Winters introduced Jones to actress Susan Strasberg, the daughter of method-acting progenitor Lee Strasberg. Jones studied at Strasberg's Actors Studio. Jones married Susan in 1965; the couple divorced in 1968. Their"
"The Shadow of the Hummingbird The Shadow of the Hummingbird is a play written by South African playwright Athol Fugard. It made its world premiere at the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut, with its first run from 26 March to 23 April 2014. It was directed by Gordon Edelstein, the Long Wharf Theatre's artistic director, and starred Fugard as an elderly writer living in Southern California (loosely based on Fugard himself), when he is visited by his ten-year-old grandson. It marked Fugard's first appearance on stage as an actor in fifteen years. The title of the play comes"
"Metamora; or, The Last of the Wampanoags Metamora; or, The Last of the Wampanoags is a play written in 1829 by John Augustus Stone. It was first performed December 15, 1829, at the Park Theater in New York City, starring Edwin Forrest. On November 28, 1828 a contest was posted in the New York Critic by American actor Edwin Forrest offering a prize of 500 dollars for an original play which met such criteria as, “a tragedy, in five acts, of which the hero, or principal character, shall be an aboriginal of this country"". Forrest, looking to produce a play"
"habitués."" The School of Night (play) The School of Night is a play by Peter Whelan. It was first performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company at The Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon on 4 November 1992. The play takes place between the Summer of 1592 and Spring 1593. It concerns the life of Christopher Marlowe and the mystery surrounding his untimely death during a brawl in Deptford, set against a backdrop of a politically and religiously divided England where the state and its spies watch those who may be accused of sedition, treason and blasphemy. In Scadbury Park, the home of Thomas"
"The Gorilla (play) The Gorilla is a three-act play written by Ralph Spence. Donald Gallaher produced it on Broadway, where it opened at the Selwyn Theatre on April 28, 1925. The play was a success and ran on Broadway for 257 performances. A production opened in London at the New Oxford Theatre on June 30, 1925, and ran for 134 performances. The play was a parody of popular theatrical mysteries such as ""The Bat"" and ""The Cat and the Canary"". Its advertisements claimed it ""outbats "". Alice Denby visits her uncle, Cyrus Stevens, at his old, dark mansion on Long"
"The Daughter of Iorio The Daughter of Iorio () is a 1904 play by the Italian writer Gabriele D'Annunzio. The play is written in verse and has elements of local dialect, proverbs and traditional rhymes from Abruzzo. It tells the tragic story of the love between a young female outcast and a shepherd who is being married off to a woman he does not love. The play was written in 33 days in the summer of 1903, while D'Annunzio was working on ""Halcyon"". It premiered in 1904 at the Teatro Lirico in Milan, starring Irma Grammatica in the leading role."
"'night, Mother 'night, Mother is a play by American playwright Marsha Norman. The play won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play. The play is about a daughter, Jessie, and her mother, Thelma. It begins with Jessie calmly telling her Mama that by morning she will be dead, as she plans to commit suicide that very evening. The subsequent dialogue between Jessie and Mama slowly reveals her reasons for her decision, her life with Mama, and how thoroughly she has planned her own death, culminating in a disturbing, yet unavoidable, climax."
"the area's fishing so much that he bought a $30,000 house ""in a cottage colony eight miles outside town."" By March 1964, months before the film's release, gossip about the film's production was widespread. Huston received an Writers Guild of America award for advancing ""the literature of the motion picture through the years."" At the award dinner, Allan Sherman performed a song, to the tune of ""Streets of Laredo"", with lyrics that included, ""They were down there to film ""The Night of the Iguana"" / With a star-studded cast and a technical crew. / They did things at night midst"
"Irv Bauer Irv Bauer also known as Irvin S. Bauer was an American playwright, screenwriter, educator and theatre critic based in New York. He was most known for his plays ""A Dream Out of Time"", ""A Fine and Private Place"" and ""Bulldog and The Bear"". He also wrote multiple episodes of ""Courage the Cowardly Dog"". Bauer taught at graduate and undergraduate levels at New York University, Sarah Lawrence College and University of Washington. He died of lymphoma on July 24, 2015. Bauer went to DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx, and then enrolled in New York University, earning a"
"simple marker near her Hudson Valley home reads ""Grayson Hall — August 7, 1985"". Grayson Hall ""For the American banker, see O. B. Grayson Hall Jr.."" Grayson Hall (September 18, 1922 – August 7, 1985) was an American television, film and stage actress. She was widely regarded for her avant-garde theatrical performances from the 1960s to the 1980s. Hall was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and a Golden Globe Award for the John Huston film ""The Night of the Iguana"" (1964). She played multiple prominent roles in the gothic soap opera ""Dark Shadows"" (1966–71), and appeared"
"Stone's plays and his paltry remuneration as causing his suicide. In addition to ""Metamora"", Stone wrote a number of other plays: None of them enjoyed ""Metamora's"" success. John Augustus Stone John Augustus Stone (December 15, 1801 Concord, MassachusettsJune 1, 1834 Philadelphia) was an American actor, dramatist, and playwright, best known as the author of ""Metamora; or, The Last of the Wampanoags"". He appeared on the New York stage beginning in 1822. He wrote ""Metamora"", as a vehicle for Edwin Forrest, who offered as a prize $500 and half the proceeds of the third night. William Cullen Bryant headed a committee"
"Nicolas Billon Nicolas Billon (born March 22, 1978) is a Canadian writer. He is best known for his plays ""The Elephant Song"", ""Iceland"", and ""Butcher"". Nicolas Billon was born in Ottawa and grew up in Montréal. He is the son of Johanne Archambault and writer Pierre Billon. ""The Elephant Song"", his first play, premiered at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in 2004. His second play, ""The Measure of Love"", was produced there in 2005. A member of the inaugural Soulpepper Academy, Nicolas's version of Anton Chekhov's ""Three Sisters"" was produced at Soulpepper in 2007, directed by László Marton. He also co-created"
"The play has been translated into English by Robert Rietty. Performances in England include: The Rules of the Game (play) The Rules of the Game ( ) is a play by Luigi Pirandello. It was written and first performed during 1918 (and first published in 1919) at the time when his wife was suffering from mental illness, but before she was committed to a mental hospital. It was first performed at the Teatro Quirino in Rome, with Ruggero Ruggeri as Leone. The Italian title means ""The Game of Roles"", but the play is not usually published with that title in"
"Eugene O'Neill Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (October 16, 1888 – November 27, 1953) was an American playwright and Nobel laureate in Literature. His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into U.S. drama techniques of realism earlier associated with Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, and Swedish playwright August Strindberg. The drama ""Long Day's Journey into Night"" is often numbered on the short list of the finest U.S. plays in the 20th century, alongside Tennessee Williams's ""A Streetcar Named Desire"" and Arthur Miller's ""Death of a Salesman"". O'Neill's plays were among the first to include speeches in"
"taught by Edith Skinner, who Reeve said was one of the world's leading voice and speech teachers. According to Reeve, Skinner was bewildered by Williams, who could instantly perform in many accents, including Scottish, Irish, English, Russian, and Italian. Their primary acting teacher was Michael Kahn, who was ""equally baffled by this human dynamo"". Williams already had a reputation for being funny, but Kahn criticized his antics as simple stand-up comedy. In a later production, Williams silenced his critics with his convincing role of an old man in ""The Night of the Iguana,"" by Tennessee Williams. ""He simply ""was"" the"
"The Notebook of Trigorin The Notebook of Trigorin is a play by American playwright Tennessee Williams, adapted from Anton Chekhov's drama ""The Seagull"" (1895). Williams based his adaptation primarily on Ann Dunnigan's 1960 translation. The play was first produced in 1981 by the Vancouver Playhouse in Vancouver, British Columbia. In 1980, Williams' play ""The Red Devil Battery Sign"" had been given a new production at the Playhouse by artistic director Roger Hodgman while Williams was Writer in Residence at the University of British Columbia. Invited to return with a new play, Williams confessed his desire to adapt Chekov's ""The Seagull""."
"Drums in the Night Drums in the Night (""Trommeln in der Nacht"") is a play by the German playwright Bertolt Brecht. Brecht wrote it between 1919 and 1920, and it received its first theatrical production in 1922. It is in the expressionist style of Ernst Toller and Georg Kaiser. The play—along with ""Baal"" and ""In the Jungle""—won the Kleist Prize for 1922 (although it was widely assumed, perhaps because ""Drums"" was the only play of the three to have been produced at that point, that the prize had been awarded to ""Drums"" alone); the play was performed all over Germany"
"The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail is a two-act American play by Robert E. Lee and Jerome Lawrence written in 1969. Hal B. Wallis is producer of the film based on the play, for which both Lawrence and Lee wrote the screenplay. The play is based on the early life of the title character, Henry David Thoreau, leading up to his night spent in a jail in Concord, Massachusetts. Thoreau was jailed for refusing to pay a poll tax on the grounds that the money might be used to pay for the Mexican–American War,"
"The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (play) The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is an American dramatization of ""The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe"" by C.S. Lewis, the British children's novel that inaugurated ""The Chronicles of Narnia"" in 1950. The one-act play for two actors was written by Le Clanché du Rand and published in 1989 by Dramatic Publishing of Woodstock, Illinois. It is licensed by Dramatic to theaters worldwide. One production opened in 2011 Off-Broadway in New York City. The play is currently running Off-Broadway at St. Luke's Theatre in New York City. The production is"
"scenic design by Julia Noulin-Mérat. The Notebook of Trigorin The Notebook of Trigorin is a play by American playwright Tennessee Williams, adapted from Anton Chekhov's drama ""The Seagull"" (1895). Williams based his adaptation primarily on Ann Dunnigan's 1960 translation. The play was first produced in 1981 by the Vancouver Playhouse in Vancouver, British Columbia. In 1980, Williams' play ""The Red Devil Battery Sign"" had been given a new production at the Playhouse by artistic director Roger Hodgman while Williams was Writer in Residence at the University of British Columbia. Invited to return with a new play, Williams confessed his desire"
"The Seagull The Seagull () is a play by Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov, written in 1895 and first produced in 1896. ""The Seagull"" is generally considered to be the first of his four major plays. It dramatises the romantic and artistic conflicts between four characters: the famous middlebrow story writer Boris Trigorin, the ingenue Nina, the fading actress Irina Arkadina, and her son the symbolist playwright Konstantin Tréplev. Though the character of Trigorin is considered Chekhov's greatest male role like Chekhov's other full-length plays, ""The Seagull"" relies upon an ensemble cast of diverse, fully developed characters. In contrast to the"
"The Night Walker The Night Walker, or The Little Thief is an early seventeenth-century stage play, a comedy written by John Fletcher and later revised by his younger contemporary James Shirley. It was first published in 1640. The play enters the historical record on 11 May 1633, when it was licensed for performance by Sir Henry Herbert, the Master of the Revels. In his records, Herbert specifically describes it as ""a play of Fletcher's, corrected by Shirley..."" The revision is readily datable, since Shirley includes a reference to William Prynne's diatribe against the theatre, ""Histriomastix"", which was published in 1632."