"children have shoes. This was the inspiration for a Eugene O'Neill play of the same name in the 1924 and recorded by Paul Robeson, who also appeared in the play. All God's Chillun Got Rhythm ""All God's Chillun Got Rhythm"" is a 1937 jazz standard. It was written by Walter Jurmann, Gus Kahn and Bronisław Kaper especially for Ivie Anderson, who performed it in the 1937 film ""A Day at the Races"", a Marx Brothers production. The lyrics state that ""All God's Children Got Rhythm"" even if they ""maybe haven't got money, maybe haven't got shoes"". The authors (European immigrants"
"of integration clashed with a culture practicing segregation. The play debuted on May 15, 1924, at the Provincetown Playhouse at 133 MacDougal Street between West 3rd and West 4th Streets in Greenwich Village in New York, closing on October 24. February 15, 1929, at Moscow Kamerny Theatre, director Alexander Tairov. Trish Van Devere played in the 1975 Broadway revival, along with James Earl Jones, Jimmy Baio, and Kathy Rich. Devin Haqq and Barbra Wengerd appeared in the 2013 production of the show in Brooklyn, New York. All God's Chillun Got Wings (play) All God's Chillun Got Wings (1924) is an"
"the disappointment of losing his signature role, Gilpin started drinking heavily. He never again performed on Broadway. He died in 1930 in Eldridge Park, New Jersey, his career in shambles. He was buried in an unmarked grave in Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, his funeral arranged by friends shortly after his death. In 1991, 61 years after his death, Gilpin was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame. O’Neill had major influence on African American actors, in particular Charles Gilpin and Paul Leroy Robeson. O’Neill and Robeson worked on three productions together: ""All God's Chillun Got Wings"" (1924), ""The"
"Robeson worked briefly as a lawyer, but he renounced a career in law due to extant racism. Essie financially supported them and they frequented the social functions at the future Schomburg Center. In December 1924 he landed the lead role of Jim in Eugene O'Neill's ""All God's Chillun Got Wings"", which culminated with Jim metaphorically consummating his marriage with his white wife by symbolically emasculating himself. ""Chillun's"" opening was postponed due to nationwide controversy over its plot. ""Chillun's"" delay led to a revival of ""The Emperor Jones"" with Robeson as Brutus, a role pioneered by Charles Sidney Gilpin. The role"
"February 1, 1945 in New York City at the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. Richard Walton Tully Richard Walton Tully (May 7, 1877 – February 1, 1945) was an American playwright. Tully was born on May 7, 1877 in Nevada City, Nevada. Tully was married to another playwright Eleanor Gates until he divorced her in 1914. His best known work was the 1912 play ""The Bird of Paradise"", which caused a long-running court case over alleged plagiarism. A schoolteacher named Grace Fender was initially successful in persuading the court that Tully's play was based on her play ""In Hawaii"", however the case"
"Friend"", 1991), Carole Pope and Rough Trade (""Shaking the Foundations"", 1999) and Joni Mitchell (""When All the Slaves Are Free"", 2003). MacDonald is also a theatre director, most noted for his productions of Tennessee Williams' ""Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"", Joe Orton's ""What the Butler Saw"" and Judith Thompson's ""Perfect Pie"". He has taught at the National Theatre School of Canada, and served as playwright in residence at the Stratford Festival. He is openly gay. Bryden MacDonald Bryden MacDonald (born October 30, 1960 in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia) is a Canadian playwright. His best known plays include ""Whale Riding"
"Richard Walton Tully Richard Walton Tully (May 7, 1877 – February 1, 1945) was an American playwright. Tully was born on May 7, 1877 in Nevada City, Nevada. Tully was married to another playwright Eleanor Gates until he divorced her in 1914. His best known work was the 1912 play ""The Bird of Paradise"", which caused a long-running court case over alleged plagiarism. A schoolteacher named Grace Fender was initially successful in persuading the court that Tully's play was based on her play ""In Hawaii"", however the case was reversed on appeal. Tully retired to breed horses. He died on"
"All American (musical) All American is a musical with a book by Mel Brooks, lyrics by Lee Adams, and music by Charles Strouse. Based on the Robert Lewis Taylor 1950 novel ""Professor Fodorski"", it is set on the campus of the fictional Southern Baptist Institute of Technology: the worlds of science and sports collide when the principles of engineering are applied to football strategies, and football strategies are used to teach the principles of engineering. The techniques of a Hungarian immigrant, Professor Fodorski, prove to be successful, resulting in a winning team, and he finds himself the target of a"
"Edward Sheldon Edward Brewster (Ned) Sheldon (Chicago, Illinois, February 4, 1886 – April 1, 1946, New York City) was an American dramatist. His plays include ""Salvation Nell"" (1908) and ""Romance"" (1913), which was made into a motion picture with Greta Garbo. After becoming ill at age 29 with crippling rheumatoid arthritis, which eventually claimed his sight (around 1930), Sheldon became a source of emotional and creative support for his many friends, including such luminaries of the literary and theatrical world as Minnie Maddern Fiske (he wrote ""Salvation Nell"" for her), Julia Marlowe, John Barrymore, Thornton Wilder, Alexander Woollcott, Anne Morrow"
"between the numbers. All American (musical) All American is a musical with a book by Mel Brooks, lyrics by Lee Adams, and music by Charles Strouse. Based on the Robert Lewis Taylor 1950 novel ""Professor Fodorski"", it is set on the campus of the fictional Southern Baptist Institute of Technology: the worlds of science and sports collide when the principles of engineering are applied to football strategies, and football strategies are used to teach the principles of engineering. The techniques of a Hungarian immigrant, Professor Fodorski, prove to be successful, resulting in a winning team, and he finds himself the"
"Anna Alice Chapin Anna Alice Chapin (December 16, 1880 – February 26, 1920) was American author and playwright. She wrote novels, short stories, fairy tales and books on music, but is perhaps best remembered for her 1904 collaboration with Glen MacDonough on the libretto ""Babes in Toyland"" Anna Alice Chapin was born in New York City, the daughter of Dr. Frederick Windle Chapin and the former Anna J. Hoppin. Her father, a native of Providence, Rhode Island, attended Trinity College, Hartford and received his medical degree from New York University. Her mother was most likely a close relative of the"
"Wings (play) Wings is a 1978 play by American playwright Arthur Kopit. Originating as a radio play, it was later adapted for stage and screen. In 1976, Kopit was commissioned to write an original radio play by the NPR drama project ""Earplay"". Just prior, his father suffered a debilitating stroke, which inspired Kopit to write the play about the language disorder and psychological perspective of a stroke victim. The female character of the play is an amalgam of two women who were both patients at the rehab center that cared for his father. The first professional stage production of ""Wings"""
"All in Good Time (play) All in Good Time is a comic play by Bill Naughton based on his 1961 TV play ""Honeymoon Postponed"". Originally produced at the Mermaid Theatre in 1963 in London, it subsequently transferred to the Phoenix Theatre, and then to Broadway, where it ran for 44 performances in February and March 1965. The Broadway cast included Donald Wolfit, Marjorie Rhodes and Richard Dysart. It received Tony Award Best Actress and Best Featured Actress nominations for Marjorie Rhodes and Alexandra Berlin. Teenage newlyweds living with the groom's parents, have difficulties consummating their marriage. The play, directed by"
"Neil Simon Marvin Neil Simon (July 4, 1927 – August 26, 2018) was an American playwright, screenwriter and author. He wrote more than 30 plays and nearly the same number of movie screenplays, mostly adaptations of his plays. He received more combined Oscar and Tony nominations than any other writer. Simon grew up in New York City during the Great Depression, with his parents' financial hardships affecting their marriage, giving him a mostly unhappy and unstable childhood. He often took refuge in movie theaters where he enjoyed watching the early comedians like Charlie Chaplin. After a few years in the"
"James A. Herne James A. Herne (born James Ahearn, February 1, 1839 – June 2, 1901) was an American playwright and actor. He is considered by some critics to be the ""American Ibsen"", and his controversial play ""Margaret Fleming"" is often credited with having begun modern drama in America. Herne was a Georgist and wrote Shore Acres to promote the political economy of Henry George. James Ahearn was born February 1, 1839, in Cohoes, New York. His parents were poor Irish immigrants who removed him from school at age thirteen to work in a brush factory. Herne decided to become"
"Roach premiered on HBO on May 21, 2016. All the Way (play) All the Way is a play by Robert Schenkkan, depicting President Lyndon B. Johnson's efforts to maneuver members of the 88th United States Congress to enact, and civil rights leaders including Martin Luther King, Jr. to support, the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The play takes its name from Johnson's 1964 campaign slogan, ""All the Way with LBJ."" The play was commissioned by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and premiered there in 2012, in a production directed by Bill Rauch, with Jack Willis originating the role of LBJ. It"
"God (play) God, subtitled A Comedy in One Act, is a play by Woody Allen. It was first published in 1975, along with ""Death"", and Allen's short stories in Woody Allen's book ""Without Feathers"". The comedy is modelled after Bertolt Brecht's epic theatre, in that the characters frequently point out the artificiality of the play and switch roles. Actors also play various audience members, and Woody Allen himself appears at one point as a voice on a phone. The setting is an ancient Greek amphitheatre, circa 500BC. Diabetes, an actor, and Hepatitis, a writer, sit on stage lamenting about how"
"Bernard Evslin Bernard Evslin (April 4, 1922 – June 4, 1993) was an American author best known for his adaptations of Greek mythology. Bernard Evslin was born in New Rochelle, New York, and went on to attend Rutgers University. Evslin spent the first part of his career as a playwright and screenwriter. His comedy, ""The Geranium Hat"", opened on Broadway in 1959 and was generally well received, although his later play, ""Step on a Crack"" only held one performance before closing at the Ethel Barrymore Theater, despite starring Rita Hayworth. Evslin also wrote the screenplay for A.k.a. Cassius Clay and"
"been performed all over the world, from Romania, to Macedonia, Japan and Norway. Bill has performed on the stages of Radio City Music Hall, Madison Square Garden, the Kennedy Center, and The White House. Bill's newest solo play, ALL OVER THE MAP, premiered Off Broadway in April 2016, produced by All For One Theatre. With director Scott Illingworth, he created an ensemble play inspired by the Dalton Trumbo novel, JOHNNY GOT HIS GUN, developed with the support of the Harold Clurman Center for New Works in New York City. JOHNNY GOT HIS GUN was most recently produced by the NYU"
"Arthur Miller Arthur Asher Miller (October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005) was an American playwright, essayist, and a major figure in the twentieth-century American theater. Among his most popular plays are ""All My Sons"" (1947), ""Death of a Salesman"" (1949), ""The Crucible"" (1953) and ""A View from the Bridge"" (1955, revised 1956). He wrote several screenplays and was most noted for his work on ""The Misfits"" (1961). The drama ""Death of a Salesman"" has been numbered on the short list of finest American plays in the 20th century alongside Eugene O'Neill's ""Long Day's Journey into Night"" and Tennessee Williams's"
"Bill Robens Bill Robens is a Los Angeles-based playwright, screenwriter and actor, whose written works include ""The Poseidon Adventure: the Musical"" (co-written with Genemichael Barrera), ""The Towering Inferno: the Musical"" (co-written with Steve Marca), a comedy variety show, ""A Fish Without His Flippers"" and ""A Mulholland Christmas Carol,"" which earned Bill an L.A. Weekly Theatre Award for Best Adaptation. Bill Robens began writing for the theatre shortly after becoming a member of Theatre of NOTE, a Los Angeles theatre company specializing in new plays. His first satirical piece, ""The Poseidon Adventure: the Musical"" (co-written with Genemichael Barrera), was independently produced,"
"In the Wings (play) In The Wings is a comedy written by Tony Award winner Stewart F. Lane. It was produced off-broadway at the Promenade Theater in New York city in 2005. Because the play is set in New York city in 1977, the costumes and sets become secondary characters. The off-broadway production included lots of bell bottoms, fringed vests and smiley faces. The play was first presented as a staged reading at The Revelation Theater starring Shannon Doherty and directed by Mr. Lane. Two aspiring young actors, Melinda and Steve, in love with each other and the theatre get"
"Ellen McLaughlin Ellen McLaughlin (born November 9, 1957) is an American playwright and actress. Her plays include ""Septimus and Clarissa"", ""Ajax in Iraq"", ""Days and Nights Within"", ""A Narrow Bed"", ""Infinity's House"", ""Iphigenia and Other Daughters"", ""Tongue of a Bird"", ""The Trojan Women"", ""Helen"", ""The Persians"" and ""Oedipus"". Producers include: Actors' Theater of Louisville, The Actors’ Gang L.A., Classic Stage Co., N.Y., The Intiman Theater, Seattle, Almeida Theater, London, The Mark Taper Forum, L.A., the Public Theater in NYC, The Oregon Shakespeare Festival, The National Actors’ Theater, N.Y.,and The Guthrie Theater, MN, among many other venues. Grants and awards include:"
"Schooner captain who risks life and limb to transport fir trees from Michigan's Upper Peninsula to Chicago's German immigrants during the late 19th century. With Julie Shannon again creating the music and lyrics, John Reeger wrote ""Let the Eagle Fly"", the story of Cesar Chavez. John Reeger John Reeger is a Chicago actor and playwright. He is married to Paula Scrofano and has two children, Adam and Alison Reeger. His fifteen productions include: His thirty productions include: With Julie Shannon creating the music and lyrics, John Reeger wrote The Christmas Schooner which premiered at Bailiwick Repertory Theatre and received the"
"Louis O. Coxe Louis Osborne Coxe (April 15, 1918 – May 25, 1993) was an American poet, playwright, essayist, and professor who was recognized by the Academy of American Poets for his ""long, powerful, quiet accomplishment, largely unrecognized, in lyric poetry."" He was probably best known for his dramatic adaptation of Herman Melville's ""Billy Budd"", which opened on Broadway in 1951. Born in Manchester, New Hampshire in 1918 but raised in Salem, Massachusetts (where his family had lived since 1640), Coxe was educated at St. Paul's School. He graduated from Princeton University in 1940, writing his senior thesis on Edwin"
"Carolina Playwrights Prize. His novel ""The Falls of the Wyona"" won Red Hen’s 2017 Quill Prize for Queer Fiction. David Brendan Hopes David Brendan Hopes (born 1950 in Akron, Ohio) is an American author, playwright, and poet. He is a professor of literature at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. He is the author of ""Bird Songs of the Mesozoic"", ""Abbott's Dance"" , ""Man in Flight"" , ""Edward The King"", ""7 Reece Mews"" , ""A Dream of Adonis"", ""A Sense of the Morning"" and ""A Childhood in the Milky Way"". Works in poetry include The Glacier’s Daughters (U of"
"was in W. B. Yeats' ""Deirdre"". Adams also appeared in Geoffrey Trease's ""Colony"" (1939), which was about the exploitation of sugar workers in a Caribbean island. After Robeson returned to the United States at the outbreak of the Second World War, Adams became Britain's leading black actor, and would continue acting on television in the 1940s and 1950s. In the late 1940s, he founded the Negro Repertory Arts Theatre, whose productions included O'Neill's ""All God's Chillun Got Wings"", at Colchester in 1944. He also appeared in the Unity Theatre's 1946 production of the play and a BBC television production in"
"cuts for the Arts and Science Council of Charlotte, the city's arts funding agency, in the following year. The revival received 11 Tony Award nominations, more than any other play in history. Angels in America Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes is a two-part play by American playwright Tony Kushner. The work won numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Tony Award for Best Play, and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play. Part one of the play premiered in 1991 and its Broadway opening was in 1993. The play is a complex, often metaphorical,"
"York/ Robert Slotover - Allied Artists U.K. Lillian Garrett-Groag Lillian Groag (born Liliana C. Groag) is an American playwright, theater director, and actor. Her plays include ""The Ladies of the Camellias"", ""The Magic Fire"", and ""The White Rose"". Lillian Groag was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to a Viennese father and an Italian mother. Her father had fled to Argentina in 1938 when Austria joined Nazi Germany. When Lillian was only 7 years old her family fled from Argentina to Montevideo, Uruguay, but this time they were fleeing from the military dictatorship. Her father would die 7 years later in"
"Timothy Mason (playwright) Timothy Peter Mason (born February 14, 1950) is an American playwright. He has written a number of plays including the book and lyrics for the Broadway musical, ""Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!’’ Timothy Mason was born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. As a young child, he moved with his family to Minneapolis. He is the son of Reverend John Martin Mason II (1908 - 2003), who was an author, a minister, and who traveled the country as an advocate for the elderly. Timothy Mason’s mother was Mertrice Rosalys (Herfindahl) Mason. While in high school Timothy"
"All the Way (play) All the Way is a play by Robert Schenkkan, depicting President Lyndon B. Johnson's efforts to maneuver members of the 88th United States Congress to enact, and civil rights leaders including Martin Luther King, Jr. to support, the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The play takes its name from Johnson's 1964 campaign slogan, ""All the Way with LBJ."" The play was commissioned by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and premiered there in 2012, in a production directed by Bill Rauch, with Jack Willis originating the role of LBJ. It premiered on Broadway in March 2014, in a"
"John Colton (screenwriter) John Colton (December 31, 1887 – December 26, 1946) was an American playwright and screenwriter born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He spent the first 14 years of his life in Japan where his English father was a diplomat. After returning to the US he soon worked for a Minneapolis newspaper. He is best remembered for adapting, with Clemence Randolph, Somerset Maugham's novella ""Rain"" into a 1922 smash hit play starring Jeanne Eagels. He wrote the original play, ""The Shanghai Gesture,"" produced on Broadway in 1926. He excelled at writing plays dealing with Americans in far-off lands, an experience"
"Janis Hirsch Janis Hirsch (born c. 1950) is a comedy writer best known for producing and writing for television series, including ""Frasier, Will & Grace, My Wife and Kids, Anything But Love"", ""LA Law"", ""The Nanny"", ""Til Death"", ""Square Pegs"", the ""National Lampoon"" show, ""Murphy Brown"", and ""It's Garry Shandling's Show"". She has written books and for several publications including the ""New York Times"" and ""National Lampoon"" magazine. Hirsch had polio when she was 10 months old and uses crutches to walk. She is Jewish and was born in Trenton, New Jersey. In 1963, when she was 13, Hirsch wrote"