"Seascape (play) Seascape is a play by American playwright Edward Albee. The play won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The play opened on Broadway at the Sam S. Shubert Theatre on January 26, 1975 and closed on March 22, 1975 after 65 performances. Directed by Albee, the cast starred Deborah Kerr (Nancy), Barry Nelson (Charlie), Maureen Anderman (Sarah) and Frank Langella (Leslie). Langella won the 1975 Tony Award, Featured Actor in a Play. The play was nominated for the 1975 Tony Award, Play and Lighting Design (Play or Musical) (James Tilton). The original three-act version of the play ran"
"24, 2013. In 2002 Shanley was inducted into the Bronx Walk of Fame. John Patrick Shanley John Patrick Shanley (born October 13, 1950) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and director. His play, """", won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the 2005 Tony Award for Best Play. He won the 1988 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for his film ""Moonstruck"". Shanley was born into an Irish-American family in The Bronx, New York City. His mother worked as a telephone operator, and his father was a meat-packer. The neighborhood Shanley grew up in was considered very rough. His academic"
"Kirkwood, Jr., Nicholas Dante, Marvin Hamlisch, and Edward Kleban—shared the prize for the musical ""A Chorus Line"". Lynn Nottage is the only female playwright to win the prize twice. She and August Wilson are the only playwrights of color to accomplish this feat. Pulitzer Prize for Drama The Pulitzer Prize for Drama is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music. It is one of the original Pulitzers, for the program was inaugurated in 1917 with seven prizes, four of which were awarded that year. (No Drama prize was given, however, so"
"written short fiction and screenplays, and worked as a movie producer. In 2010 he published his first novel, ""Snatch: The Adventures of David and Me"", a work of children's fiction written for his two sons. He is a member of the Writers Guild of America, East. Charles Fuller Charles H. Fuller, Jr. (born March 5, 1939) is an African American playwright, best known for his play ""A Soldier's Play"", for which he received the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Fuller was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1939, the son of Charles H. Fuller, Sr. and Lillian Anderson. He attended Roman"
"Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play (Ian Holm), the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play (Peter Hall), and the Tony Award for Best Play (Alexander H. Cohen, prod.). A film of the play, based on Pinter's own screenplay and also entitled ""The Homecoming"" and directed by Sir Peter Hall, was released in 1973. It features most of the original 1965 Royal Shakespeare Company cast and became part of the two-season subscription series ""American Film Theatre"" in the United States, available on DVD and distributed by Kino Lorber. London première<br> Royal Shakespeare Company. Dir. Peter Hall."
"and playwrights who have received nominations in this category include: John Steinbeck, Noël Coward, Raymond Chandler, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Edward Bond, Arthur C. Clarke, Lillian Hellman, Neil Simon, Paddy Chayefsky, Kenneth Lonergan, Tom Stoppard, Terence Rattigan and Martin McDonagh. Woody Allen has the most nominations in this category with 16, and the most awards with 3, though Paddy Chayefsky won the Best Adapted Screenplay in 1955 for his adaptation of his teleplay, ""Marty,"" and also won for Original Screenplay for ""The Hospital"" and ""Network"". Woody Allen also holds the record as the oldest winner (at age 76 for ""Midnight in Paris"","
"Gilroy, an award-winning playwright, director, and movie producer, who received the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play ""The Subject Was Roses"" in 1965. He is the brother of screenwriter Dan Gilroy and editor John Gilroy. Through his father, he is of Italian, Irish and German descent. He has two children, Sam and Kathryn, and is married to Susan Gilroy. Gilroy was raised in Washingtonville, New York. He graduated from Washingtonville High School in 1974 at 16 years old and attended Boston University for two years before dropping out to concentrate on his"
"for five Tony Awards: Best Play, Best Featured Actor (Pat Hingle), Best Featured Actress (Eileen Heckart), Best Scenic Design (Ben Edwards), Best Director (Elia Kazan). Timmy Everett won a Theatre World Award. It was adapted into a film by the same name in 1960, directed by Delbert Mann, and starring Dorothy McGuire and Robert Preston. The Dark at the Top of the Stairs The Dark at the Top of the Stairs is a 1957 play by William Inge about family conflicts during the early 1920s in a small Oklahoma town. It was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play"
"John Patrick Shanley John Patrick Shanley (born October 13, 1950) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and director. His play, """", won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the 2005 Tony Award for Best Play. He won the 1988 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for his film ""Moonstruck"". Shanley was born into an Irish-American family in The Bronx, New York City. His mother worked as a telephone operator, and his father was a meat-packer. The neighborhood Shanley grew up in was considered very rough. His academic career did not begin well, but ultimately he graduated from New York University"
"won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, roughly one per decade from the 1930s to the 2010s¹. They are: George and Ira Gershwin's ""Of Thee I Sing"" (1932), Rodgers and Hammerstein's ""South Pacific"" (1950), Bock & Harnick's ""Fiorello!"" (1960), Frank Loesser's ""How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying"" (1962), Marvin Hamlisch, Edward Kleban, James Kirkwood, Jr., and Nicholas Dante's ""A Chorus Line"" (1976), Stephen Sondheim's and James Lapine's ""Sunday in the Park with George"" (1985), Jonathan Larson's ""Rent"" (1996), Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitt's ""Next to Normal"" (2010), and Lin-Manuel Miranda's ""Hamilton"" (2016). ""Of Thee I Sing"", ""Sunday in the"
"Kin"" (1974), by John Hopkins; ""Blithe Spirit"" (1976), by Noël Coward; ""The Innocents"" (1976), by William Archibald; ""Circe and Bravo"" (1986), by Donald Freed; ""Taking Sides"" (1995), by Ronald Harwood; and ""Twelve Angry Men"" (1996), by Reginald Rose. Pinter was the author of 29 plays and 15 dramatic sketches and the co-author of two works for stage and radio. He was considered to have been one of the most influential modern British dramatists, Along with the 1967 Tony Award for Best Play for ""The Homecoming"" and several other American awards and award nominations, he and his plays received many awards"
"a Play (Gielgud), Best Actress in a Play (Worth), Best Direction of a Play (Alan Schneider), Best Producer of a Play (Theater 1965 - Richard Barr, Clinton Wilder), and Best Author (Play) (Albee). Irene Worth won the Tony Award. The play ran at Hartford Stage, Connecticut in May-June 1998, directed by Mark Lamos and starring Richard Thomas as Brother Julian. There were plans to move the production to Broadway with Lamos and Thomas, expected to open in February 1999, but that production did not happen. The play was revived Off-Broadway at the Second Stage Theatre, from November 16, 2000 to"
"Melody Ballet” (see above) “Let Me Sing and I’m Happy” from Mammy (1930), music and lyrics by Irving Berlin “That’s Entertainment” from The Band Wagon (1953), music by Arthur Schwartz and lyrics by Howard Dietz Source:Playbill New musicals Revivals The nominees were announced on May 10, 2005 by Alan Cumming, Lynn Redgrave, Kate Burton and Brian Stokes Mitchell. ""Monty Python's Spamalot"" received 14 nominations, the most of any production at the time, followed by ""Dirty Rotten Scoundrels"" and ""The Light in the Piazza"" with 11 nominations each. Source:Playbill Winners are in bold Best Special Theatrical Event Regional Theatre Tony Award"
"Frank D. Gilroy Frank Daniel Gilroy (October 13, 1925 – September 12, 2015) was an American playwright, screenwriter, and film producer and director. He received the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play ""The Subject Was Roses"" in 1965. Gilroy was born on October 13, 1925, in New York City, the son of Bettina (née Vasti) and Frank B. Gilroy, a coffee broker. His father was Irish American and his mother was of Italian and German descent. Gilroy lived in the Bronx for most of his childhood and attended DeWitt Clinton High School."
"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"
"technical categories. Bill Duke directed the production, while Chiz Schultz produced. This production was based on an off-Broadway revival produced by the Roundabout Theatre. On 3 March 1996 the BBC broadcast a production of the play by director/producer Claire Grove, with the following cast: A revival ran on Broadway at the Royale Theatre from April 26, 2004, to July 11, 2004 at the Royale Theatre with the following cast: The director was Kenny Leon with David Binder and Vivek Tiwary producers. The play won two 2004 Tony Awards: Best Actress in a Play (Phylicia Rashad) and Best Featured Actress in"
"Marsha Norman Marsha Norman (born September 21, 1947) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. She received the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play ""'night, Mother"". She wrote the book and lyrics for such Broadway musicals as ""The Secret Garden"", for which she won a Tony Award and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical, and ""The Red Shoes"", as well as the libretto for the musical ""The Color Purple"" and the book for the musical ""The Bridges of Madison County"". She is co-chair of the playwriting department at The Juilliard School. Norman was born"
"1971. Gilroy's three sons, from his marriage to sculptor/writer Ruth Dorothy Gaydos, are involved in the film industry. Tony Gilroy and Dan Gilroy are screenwriters and directors, while John Gilroy is a film editor. Frank Gilroy died on September 12, 2015 in Monroe, New York. Frank D. Gilroy Frank Daniel Gilroy (October 13, 1925 – September 12, 2015) was an American playwright, screenwriter, and film producer and director. He received the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play ""The Subject Was Roses"" in 1965. Gilroy was born on October 13, 1925, in New"
"presented at its Pacific Playwrights Festival reading series in 2005. The play won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for 2007. The play received five 2006 Tony Award nominations: for Best Play, Best Direction of a Play, Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play (Tyne Daly) and Best Scenic Design of a Play (John Lee Beatty). Cynthia Nixon won the 2006 Tony Award, Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play. The Spanish version ""Los universos paralelos"" premiered at the Teatro Palacio Valdés de Avilés on 17 March 2017. The production moved to the Teatro Español in Madrid"
"on Broadway on September 27, 1966, at the Alvin Theatre and closed on January 14, 1967, after 127 performances. Produced by Elliot Martin, Lester Osterman, Jr., Alan King and Walter A. Hyman, Ltd. The play was directed by Tyrone Guthrie. The revival opened on Broadway on December 19, 2002 and closed on January 26, 2003 after 45 performances and 28 previews. Produced by Lincoln Center Theater, André Bishop: Artistic Director; Bernard Gersten: Executive Producer. Directed by Gerald Gutierrez. The play received 2003 Tony Award nominations for Best Revival of a Play, Best Featured Actress in a Play (Ebersole and Seldes),"
"Tony Award for Best Revival The Tony Award for Best Revival was given to the best play, musical or non-musical, which had already appeared on Broadway in a previous production. It was presented from 1977, where it was called ""Most Innovative Production of a Revival"" and later ""Reproduction (Play or Musical)"" in 1980, until 1994, when it was split into the Best Revival of a Musical and the Best Revival of a Play. If there are not enough revivals, it is possible under the current Tony rules for this category to return. Any time there are three play revivals and"
"1990 - New England Theatre Award for Excellence. 1990-94 - Four Boston Drama Critics Awards for ""Filumeni"". 1992-93 - """" named Best Play at Humana Festival of New American Plays. 1996 - ""All in the Timing"" wins Boston Drama Critics Award for Best Play 1996 - ""Hamlet"" wins Best of Boston Award 1997 - ""'night, Mother"" wins Best of Boston 1998 - ""Nixon's Nixon"" wins Best of Boston 2005 - Harold Pinter's ""The Homecoming"" named to the Best of 2005 list of the Boston Globe, Boston Phoenix, Boston Courant, Edge Boston and Lowell Sun. 2008 - ""A Delicate Balance"" receives"
"the award's advisory board, the trustees of Columbia University, because of the play's then-controversial use of profanity and sexual themes. Had Albee been awarded, he would be tied with Eugene O'Neill for the most Pulitzer Prizes for Drama (four). In its first 98 years to 2013, the Drama Pulitzer was awarded 82 times; none were given in 15 years and it was never split. Many of the prizes were won by multiple people for their collaboration, as many as five in 1976. <nowiki>*</nowiki> Star marks winners of the annual Tony Award for Best Play or Best Musical. Nine musicals have"
"Tony Award for Best Play The Tony Award for Best Play (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theatre, including musical theatre, honoring productions on Broadway in New York City. There was no award in the Tonys' first year. ""All My Sons"" has been incorrectly categorized as the Best Play of 1947, but it won the Best Author award for Arthur Miller. The following year ""Mister Roberts"" received the first Tony Award as Best Play. The award goes to the authors and the producers of the play. Legend:<br> <nowiki>†</nowiki>"
"concerns a group attempting to save a historic skyscraper from being demolished. Auburn is best known for his 2000 play ""Proof"", which won the 2001 Tony Award for Best Play, as well as the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. He adapted it into a film, which was released in 2005. His play ""The Columnist"" had its world premiere in a production by the Manhattan Theatre Club on Broadway, running from April 3, 2012 through June 3, 2012 and starring John Lithgow with Boyd Gaines, Margaret Colin, Stephen Kunken, Marc Bonan, Grace Gummer and Brian J. Smith with direction by Daniel"
"won the Pulitzer Prize along with the Tony Award for ""Lost in Yonkers"" (1991). The Neil Simon Festival is a professional summer repertory theatre devoted to preserving the works of Simon and his contemporaries. The Neil Simon Festival was founded by Richard Dean Bugg in 2003. In 2006, Simon received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Simon was credited as contributing writer to at least 49 plays on Broadway: In addition to the plays and musicals above, Simon has twice rewritten or updated his 1965 play ""The Odd Couple"", both of which versions have run under new titles. These"
"the audience vote on a different murderer each night. The show earned Holmes the Tony Award for both book and score, as well as the Drama Desk Awards for lyrics, music, the book and orchestrations, among various other honors. The musical has been given London and Broadway revivals, among others. The success of ""Drood"" would lead Holmes to write other plays (both musical and non-) in later years, though he has stated that he avoided musical theater for some time after the death of his daughter. Holmes also wrote the Tony Award-nominated (""Best Play 2003"") ""Say Goodnight, Gracie"", based on"
"William Gibson (playwright) William Gibson (November 13, 1914 – November 25, 2008) was an American playwright and novelist. He won the Tony Award for Best Play for ""The Miracle Worker"" in 1959, which he later adapted for the film version in 1962. Gibson graduated from the City College of New York in 1938, and was of Irish, French, German, Dutch and Russian and Greek, ancestry. Gibson's Broadway debut had been with ""Two for the Seesaw"" in 1958, a critically acclaimed two-character play which starred Henry Fonda and, in her own Broadway debut, Anne Bancroft. It was directed by Arthur Penn."
"Ronald Harwood Sir Ronald Harwood, (born Ronald Horwitz; 9 November 1934) is an author, playwright and screenwriter. He is most noted for his plays for the British stage as well as the screenplays for ""The Dresser"" (for which he was nominated for an Oscar) and ""The Pianist"", for which he won the 2003 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He was nominated for the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for ""The Diving Bell and the Butterfly"" (2007). Harwood was born Ronald Horwitz in Cape Town, South Africa, the son of Isobel (née Pepper) and Isaac Horwitz. Harwood moved from Cape Town"
"Ronald Harwood Sir Ronald Harwood, (born Ronald Horwitz; 9 November 1934) is an author, playwright and screenwriter. He is most noted for his plays for the British stage as well as the screenplays for ""The Dresser"" (for which he was nominated for an Oscar) and ""The Pianist"", for which he won the 2003 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He was nominated for the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for ""The Diving Bell and the Butterfly"" (2007). Harwood was born Ronald Horwitz in Cape Town, South Africa, the son of Isobel (née Pepper) and Isaac Horwitz. Harwood moved from Cape Town"
"to win consecutive Tony Awards for his two-part """". Terrence McNally repeated this feat the following two years with his plays ""Love! Valour! Compassion!"" and ""Master Class"". Tony Award for Best Play The Tony Award for Best Play (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theatre, including musical theatre, honoring productions on Broadway in New York City. There was no award in the Tonys' first year. ""All My Sons"" has been incorrectly categorized as the Best Play of 1947, but it won the Best Author award for Arthur Miller."
"Tony Kushner Anthony Robert Kushner (born July 16, 1956) is an American playwright and screenwriter. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1993 for his play ""Angels in America"". He co-authored with Eric Roth the screenplay for the 2005 film ""Munich"", and he wrote the screenplay for the 2012 film ""Lincoln"". Both films were critically acclaimed, and he received Academy Award nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay. He received a National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama in 2013. Kushner was born in Manhattan, the son of Sylvia (née Deutscher), a bassoonist, and William David Kushner, a clarinetist and"
"Harold Pinter Harold Pinter (; 10 October 1930 – 24 December 2008) was a Nobel Prize-winning British playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. One of the most influential modern British dramatists, his writing career spanned more than 50 years. His best-known plays include ""The Birthday Party"" (1957), ""The Homecoming"" (1964), and ""Betrayal"" (1978), each of which he adapted for the screen. His screenplay adaptations of others' works include ""The Servant"" (1963), ""The Go-Between"" (1971), ""The French Lieutenant's Woman"" (1981), ""The Trial"" (1993), and ""Sleuth"" (2007). He also directed or acted in radio, stage, television, and film productions of his own and"