"Whose last literary work was the TV play ""Karaoke and Cold Lazarus""?"
"Cold Lazarus Cold Lazarus is a four-part British television drama written by Dennis Potter with the knowledge that he was dying of cancer of the pancreas. It forms the second half of a pair with the television serial ""Karaoke"". The two serials were filmed as a single production by the same team; both were directed by Renny Rye and feature Albert Finney as the writer Daniel Feeld. The plays were unique in being co-productions between the BBC and Channel 4, something Potter had expressly requested before his death. The show was first aired on Channel 4 in 1996 on Sunday"
"in his review of the production in ""The New York Times"" that ""Ice-bolts of ecstasy shoot like novas through the fabulous muddle and murk of ""Lazarus"", the great-sounding, great-looking and mind numbing new musical built around songs by David Bowie."" ""Rolling Stone"" called the musical a ""tour de force"" and ""theater at its finest."" Lazarus (musical) Lazarus is a musical with music and lyrics composed by David Bowie, and a book written by Enda Walsh. First performed at the end of 2015, it was one of the last works Bowie completed before his death on 10 January 2016. The musical"
"Lazarus (musical) Lazarus is a musical with music and lyrics composed by David Bowie, and a book written by Enda Walsh. First performed at the end of 2015, it was one of the last works Bowie completed before his death on 10 January 2016. The musical is inspired by Walter Tevis's novel ""The Man Who Fell to Earth"". Bowie previously starred in the 1976 film adaptation of the same name, directed by Nicolas Roeg. As of December 2018 there have been seven productions: one each in New York, London, Bremen, Düsseldorf, Vienna, Linz and Hamburg. Further productions are planned for"
"intermittent radio dramatist, and has won the Giles Cooper Award for adapting his television script, ""Is It Something I Said?"" One of his plays, ""Stepping Out"", Harris has taken a number of literary characters and adapted them into ongoing series. The longest running of these are ""A Touch of Frost"" and ""The Last Detective"", but he has also converted works including Mark Twain's ""The Prince and the Pauper"" into limited-run serials. He has also converted non-English sources into English drama, including his play, ""The Last Laugh"", which derives from a Japanese work, and his adaptation of a Norwegian source into"
"Paul Lazarus Paul Lazarus is an American director, producer and writer of film, television and theatre. He graduated from Dartmouth College, and apprenticed with the Royal Shakespeare Company in England. In the early 90s, he served as the Artistic Director of the historic Pasadena Playhouse. Lazarus has directed over eighty plays and musicals. His play, ""A Tale of Charles Dickens"", co-written with Janet Jones, was produced and recorded for radio by Los Angeles Theater Works in association with the Antaeus Theater Company. Other credits include directing Neil Simon's ""Biloxi Blues"", ""Personals"" (which was written by Marta Kauffman, David Crane, Stephen"
"broadcast on television and radio. In 1994, his ""Caro Elvis, Cara Janis"" (""Dear Elvis, Dear Janis"") was awarded with the I.D.I. (Italian Drama Institute) Prize for Best New Play of the Year. His play entitled ""Le ultime lune"" (""The Last Moons""), shortlisted for the I.D.I. Prize in 1993, was performed in Italy by Marcello Mastroianni in 1995 and 1996. Afterwards it was reprised by Gastone Moschin (1998) and eventually by Gianrico Tedeschi for ten consecutive seasons (2000–2010). To date, the play has been translated and produced in 20 foreign countries. His literary output includes four novels: ""Giochi di mano"" (""Sleight"
"Burton's ""Corpse Bride"". Finney made several television productions for the BBC in the 1990s, including ""The Green Man"" (1990), based on a novel by Kingsley Amis, the acclaimed drama ""A Rather English Marriage"" (1998) (with Tom Courtenay), and the lead role in Dennis Potter's final two plays, ""Karaoke"" and ""Cold Lazarus"" in 1996 and 1997. In the latter he played a frozen, disembodied head. Finney also made an appearance at Roger Waters' ""The Wall Concert in Berlin"", where he played ""The Judge"" during the performance of ""The Trial"". Even with his success on the big screen, Finney never abandoned his"
"high profile and successful producers, appointed Head of Serials at the BBC between 1989 and 1998 where he was responsible for such programmes as ""Pride and Prejudice"" (1995), ""Our Friends in the North"" (1996) and Dennis Potter's final two plays ""Karaoke"" (1996) and ""Cold Lazarus"" (1996). Walt Patterson, who acted as series adviser, was a leading commentator on nuclear affairs, best known for his book ""Nuclear Power"" (Penguin, 1976–1986). Following ""Edge of Darkness"", he acted as specialist adviser to the British House of Commons Select Committee on Environment for their 1986 study, ""Radioactive Waste"". He continues to contribute to the"
"Milton Lazarus Milton Lazarus (1898 or 1899 – March 1, 1955) was an American playwright and screenwriter. He began his career as a Press Agent before pursuing a career as a writer. He wrote the book for the Broadway musicals ""Shoot the Works"" (1931), ""New Faces of 1936"" (1936), and ""Song of Norway"" (1944). Several of his stage plays were also mounted on Broadway, including ""Whatever Goes Up"" (1935), ""I Want a Policeman"" (1936), ""Every Man for Himself"" (1940), and ""The Sun Field"" (1942). His play ""Sudden Money"" was adapted into a 1939 film. He wrote the screenplays to the"
"fifth and last book was released in October 2012 and is named ""Oblivion"". In October 2008, Anthony Horowitz's play ""Mindgame"" opened Off Broadway at the SoHo Playhouse in New York City. ""Mindgame"" starred Keith Carradine, Lee Godart, and Kathleen McNenny. The production was the New York stage directorial debut for Ken Russell. In 2008 also he got into a joke dispute with Darren Shan over his use of the name Antoine Horwitzer for an objectionable character. Rather than suing, Horowitz plotted a literary revenge. In March 2009 he was a guest on ""Private Passions"", the biographical music discussion programme on"
"of his musical setting. Summer's Last Will and Testament Summer's Last Will and Testament is an Elizabethan stage play, a comedy written by Thomas Nashe. The play is notable for breaking new ground in the development of English Renaissance drama: ""No earlier English comedy has anything like the intellectual content or the social relevance that it has."" Although Nashe is known as an Elizabethan playwright, ""Summer's Last Will and Testament"" is his only extant solo-authored play; his other surviving dramatic work, ""Dido, Queen of Carthage"", is a collaboration with Christopher Marlowe, in which Nashe's role was probably very minimal. The"
"His last and most obscure play is ""The Atheist"" (1684), although many see it as a way to cash in on his previous comic success with ""The Soldier's Fortune"", some see it not as a weak sequel but as a ""brilliant experiment."" One of the aims of the play is to show what happens after the wedding as sentimental conclusion in plays of the period through the figures of Courtine and Sylvia. The bleakness of their relations taint those of Beauregard and Porcia. The complexity of the plot, some of which derives from the ""Invisible Mistress,"" the first interpolated story"
"Summer's Last Will and Testament Summer's Last Will and Testament is an Elizabethan stage play, a comedy written by Thomas Nashe. The play is notable for breaking new ground in the development of English Renaissance drama: ""No earlier English comedy has anything like the intellectual content or the social relevance that it has."" Although Nashe is known as an Elizabethan playwright, ""Summer's Last Will and Testament"" is his only extant solo-authored play; his other surviving dramatic work, ""Dido, Queen of Carthage"", is a collaboration with Christopher Marlowe, in which Nashe's role was probably very minimal. The play was entered into"
"pages too soon""), he proposed that these works, ""Cold Lazarus"" and ""Karaoke"", should be made with the rival BBC and Channel 4 working in collaboration, a suggestion which was accepted. These two related stories, eventually broadcast in 1996, one set in the present and the other in the far future, both feature Albert Finney as the same principal character. Both series were released on DVD on 6 September 2010. Months before Potter was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer his wife, Margaret Morgan Potter, was diagnosed with breast cancer. Despite his own deteriorating condition and punishing work schedule, Potter continued to care"
"directed by Dominic Hill, and in 2011 by Dumbarton People's Theatre. In 2018, a production of her adaptation of ""My Name Is Lucy Barton"" starring Laura Linney opened in London. Rona Munro Rona Munro (born 7 September 1959) is a Scottish writer. She has written plays for theatre, radio, and television. Her film work includes Ken Loach's ""Ladybird, Ladybird"" (1994), ""Oranges and Sunshine"" (2010) for Jim Loach and ""Aimée & Jaguar"" (1999), co-authored by German director Max Färberböck. Rona Munro is also known for being the author of the last ""Doctor Who"" television serial of the original run to air,"
"heighten the dramatic tension in his work in the serials ""Pennies from Heaven"" (1978), ""The Singing Detective"" (1986), ""Lipstick on Your Collar"" (1993) and the play ""Cream in My Coffee"" (1980). The theme of sexual abuse is returned to in ""Only Make Believe"" (1973), ""Brimstone and Treacle"" (1976), ""Where Adam Stood"" (1976), ""Blue Remembered Hills"" (1979), ""Blackeyes"" (1989), ""Cold Lazarus"" (1996) and the novel ""Hide and Seek"" (1974). Characters also undergo psychiatric assessment in ""Follow the Yellow Brick Road"" (1972), ""Hide and Seek"" and ""The Singing Detective"". The play was broadcast on ITV on 12 April 1969 and has not"
"drama series ""Thirty-Minute Theatre"", including several Sherlock Holmes works. He continued to work as a part-time script adviser until 1986. Several of his plays, such as ""In at the Kill"" and ""Minerva Alone"", were adapted for theatre and performed by the Hampstead Theatre Club onstage in the early 1960s. ""In at the Kill"", a one-act play, is described as a ""macabre little piece"" by ""Theatre World"". Another radio play, ""Goose With Pepper"" (1972), similarly was dramatised for the theatre by David Ambrose in August 1975. From the early 1970s to the mid-1990s, he produced mainly for Radio 4. His last"
"series were ""Jacob's Cauldron"" (1998) and ""Michael's Fire"" (2002). The concluding novel in the series will be entitled ""David's Throne."" In addition to her novels, she wrote ""Christ-Centered Meditation: A Handbook for Spiritual Practice"" in 2011. She also authored the lyrics and book for the musical ""Parley P. Pratt's Great Escape,"" co-written with Jazz vocalist Kelly Eisenhour (a graduate of Boston’s Berklee College of Music and former backup singer for Gladys Knight). Blackwell (aka Blackwell Mayes), has a doctorate from the Southern California University for Professional Studies in psychology and has founded The Sacred Hoop Healing Center, which provides support"
"""Sugar and Snow"", set in the Kurdish community in north London, was produced on BBC Radio 4 in 2006 and given a reading at the Hampstead Theatre. Her short play ""A Sudden Visitation of Calamity"" was produced at Menagerie Theatre in 2008. In 2010 her play ""The Thousand and Second Night"" was produced by LAMDA. In 2010 her play ""Cling To Me Like Ivy"", published by Nick Hern Books, was produced by the Birmingham Repertory Theatre and went on tour. In 2012 she was a founder member of women's theatre company Agent 160. Her book ""How to be a Heroine"""
"Her plays include plays A Kind of Faith (produced 2004) Leaving Wonderland (Premiered Halifax, 2015 ), children’s plays Bluenose Billy (2006, co-written with Sheldon Currie and Griffen Prize-winning poet Anne Simpson), Belinda the Bicycle Witch (2008), Lost and Found (2009), ...And How Are We Today (co-written with poet Anne Simpson). Recently seen on stage in: A Good Death, Be My Baby, Criminal Genius. Her poetry has been a finalist in the Atlantic Writing Competition, and has appeared in literary journals Toward the Light and Papirmasse, and on the CBC website. Short stories have been included in anthologies and broadcast in"
"of a 1965 broadcast conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent also exist, and there were two notable revivals broadcast during the 1980s and 1990s by the BBC Concert Orchestra and Brighton Festival Chorus conducted by Norman Del Mar (10 May 1986), and by the City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conducted by Sakari Oramo (5 October, 1999). The penultimate movement, the Rondo burlesca subtitled ""King Pest"", written for orchestra alone, has sometimes been performed separately and has been recorded separately (by Norman Del Mar and the English Chamber Orchestra, released in 2007). Summer's Last Will and Testament (Lambert) Summer's Last"
"know it's very bad form to quote one's own reviews, but there is something the ""New York Times"" said about me [in 1958], that I have always treasured: 'Mr. Lehrer's muse' [is] 'not fettered by such inhibiting factors as taste.'"") In the 1970s, Lehrer concentrated on teaching mathematics and musical theater, although he also wrote ten songs for the educational children's television show ""The Electric Company"". His last public performance took place in 1972, on a fundraising tour for Democratic US presidential candidate George McGovern. There is a false rumor that Lehrer gave up political satire when the Nobel Peace"
"until its dissolution in 2005. In 2005, actor, writer and Second City alumni, Ron West, approached Swann to co-write a musical comedy based upon Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. A year later, ""The People Vs. Friar Laurence, the Man Who Killed Romeo and Juliet"" was co-produced by The Second City and The Chicago Shakespeare theatre. The show was a critical and commercial success and was nominated for three Jeffrey Joseph Awards including Best New Musical. Swann has gone on to compose music for the award winning off-Broadway musical, ""Play It Cool"", as well as, ""DeLEARious"" (another Swann / West collaboration), which"
"been released on CD and DVD. An insert in the DVD (""Bernstein and Voltaire""), written by Wells, explained what Bernstein had wanted in this final revised version. In 1997 Wells appeared in the BBC situation comedy ""Chalk"" as ineffectual headmaster Richard Nixon. His fellow cast members do not recall him being ill on set, but he was too unwell to participate in the second series. Wells' last book, ""House of Lords"", was a best-seller and published a year before his death in 1998. The book is a historical and humorous study of the British peerage system. From 1982, Wells was"
"then, her poetic career appears to have ended; the only known works by her have been for the stage. Reportedly, she wrote ""Doctor's Orders"", ""Eden Song"", and ""Knight Fall"", the last two first being performed at the Edinburgh Festival. In 1995, the ""New Statesman & Society"" published three of her poems, ""Stardom,"" ""Breakdown,"" and ""Hospital Visit""; the magazine also reported a radio play, ""A Fool And His Heart"", was broadcast on Radio Three's ""Drama Now"". According to a British website, a screenplay by Will Davies about the writing of her first book whilst a student at Cambridge has been optioned"
"Summer's Last Will and Testament (Lambert) Summer's Last Will and Testament is a choral masque or cantata by Constant Lambert, written between 1932 and 1935, and premiered in 1936. It is scored for chorus and orchestra, with a baritone solo also featured in the last of its seven movements. It is based on the poem of the same name by Thomas Nashe, written around 1592. Lambert considered the work his magnum opus, and it is his largest work in any genre. However, it attracted little attention at its 1936 premiere and had only one or two other performances in Lambert's"
"Books"" (1991) starring John Gielgud – which is not so much an adaptation as a reading of the play, combining film, dance, opera, and animation; and a 2010 version with Prospero recast as Prospera, played by Helen Mirren. Shakespeare's late romances The late romances, often simply called the romances, are a grouping of William Shakespeare's last plays, comprising ""Pericles, Prince of Tyre""; ""Cymbeline""; ""The Winter's Tale""; and ""The Tempest"". ""The Two Noble Kinsmen"", of which Shakespeare was co-author, is sometimes also included in the grouping. The term ""romances"" was first used for these late works in Edward Dowden's ""Shakespeare: A"
"""Widows""; ""The Last Song of Manuel Sendero""; ""Mascara""; ""Konfidenz""; ""The Nanny and the Iceberg"", and Blake's ""Therapy""—he has written short stories, including ""My House Is on Fire"", and general nonfiction including ""The Empire’s Old Clothes: What the Lone Ranger, Babar, and Other Innocent Heroes Do to Our Minds"". He has won various international awards, including two Kennedy Center Theater Awards. In 1996, with his son, Rodrigo, he received an award for best television drama in Britain for ""Prisoners in Time."" His poems, collected in ""Last Waltz in Santiago"" and ""In Case of Fire in a Foreign Land"", have been turned"
"Michael Lazarou Michael Lazarou (born March 17, 1960 in Los Angeles, California) is an American film and television writer/producer. Lazarou began his career as story editor for the half-hour television comedy ""Doogie Howser, M.D."" and the one-hour drama ""The Untouchables"". He wrote the screenplays for the TV movies ""Heat Wave"" and ""Possessed"", and for feature films ""Take the A Train"" and ""Satin Doll"". He adapted his semi-autobiographical novel ""Criminal Law"" into a film for HBO. This was followed up with ""The Stanford Prison Experiment"", originally developed for television for HBO, but later acquired by Artisan Entertainment as a motion picture."
"way this work dealt with racial and religious intolerance. Even reviews that were not completely positive about the production as a whole noted Skulnik's performance. For example, a Time magazine reviewer wrote that: Pearl Harand, who recreated the production as a one-woman performance, interspercing dialogue, story description, and song, described the work as follows: The Zulu and the Zayda The Zulu and the Zayda is a musical play by Howard Da Silva and Felix Leon, with music and lyrics by Harold Rome (his last musical score), and directed by Dore Schary. It was based on a story by Dan Jacobson."
"for the first and last time 12 October 1992. The last play was ""13 WAYS TO DIE"", which was shown for the first and last time 13 March 1995. Anohni directed two plays ""The Birth of Anne Frank"" and ""Miracle Now"" which were performed with many of the Black Lips members at PS122. The troupe quickly became famous in the underground club culture of the Lower East Side - especially known for its trademark: ""Bloodbags and Beauty"". In one of the plays, called ""Starvation"", the dancers dressed as maggots and threw liver around. It was in the Blacklips Performance Cult"
"forthcoming comic novel, ""Televised"", recounting the lives of survivors of the Black Nationalist movement, which was excerpted in the 2002 anthology ""Gumbo"", edited by Marita Golden and E. Lynn Harris. She authored a play about James Baldwin, ""Waiting For Giovanni"", in 2010 in collaboration with Harry Waters Jr., an actor and professor in the theatre department at MacAlester College. Readings have been held in San Francisco at Intersection for the Arts at a seminar on Baldwin at Carleton College in Northfield, Minn., at the Yellow Springs Writers Workshop in Ohio, AfroSolo Festival and the 2009 National Black Theatre Festival. Gomez"
"singing to become a writer and stage director. Her first novel, ""Long Gone Anybody"", was published by Black Swan in 2004, and short-listed for the Pendleton May Award and Geoffrey Faber Award. Her second novel, ""Cold Comfort"", published by Black Swan in 2006, featured on Radio 4’s ""Today"" programme as one of the first fictional novels dealing with the effects of climate change. She is currently completing her third. She was an Associate Tutor in Creative Writing at the University of Sussex, and has tutored for the Arvon Foundation as well as mentoring for The Literary Consultancy. Her first music"