12 Ergebnisse.

Discover the behind-the-scenes story of how The Second City theater created a generation of world class great actors, directors, and writers. In the late Fifties and Sixties, iconoclastic young rebels in Chicago opened two tiny theaters-The Compass and The Second City-where they satirized politics, religion and sex. Developing scenes by improvising based on audience suggestions turned out to be a fine way to develop great actors, directors, an...

Keine Beschreibung.

A lavishly illustrated celebration of the fifty-year history of the most influential theatrical organization in America, the O'Neill Theater Center

The art and craft of playwriting as explored in candid conversations with some of the most important contemporary dramatists

Keine Beschreibung.

A collection of plays which demonstrate the playwright eye for the drama of human relationships. It includes "Porch", "American Enterprise", "Stay Till Morning", and, "The Action Against Sol Schumann". It also offers introduction from the playwright as well as performance notes for each script.

Dramatic Comedy / 2m, 2f Winner of Chicago's Joseph Jefferson Award for Best New Script Flyovers is a 90-minute play about a film critic who finds himself caught up in a Culture Clash of economics, sex and long-submerged resentment when he returns to the small Ohio town where he grew up. Trying to make peace with his past, he reconnects with some former classmates, a bully and a girl he had a crush on. The encounters are unsettling for all thr...

Benny Silverman, a retired, successful actor, seems to have surmounted the bitter time in his life when Leo Greshen, a good friend and colleague named him in front of the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Bennys flourishing career was nearly destroyed, and his comeback was slow and painful. The two men havent spoken since. But they are forced to deal with each other 30 years after the fact, when Bennys daughter wins a career-making ro...

It should be a week full of wine, wit and relaxation. However Jills husband doesnt show up at a lakeside vacation house and instead of a holiday, the happily married Mark & Shelly are offered an intimate view of their friends erratic behavior as she tries to cope. The lake is serene but in the house old passions bubble to the surface in this dramedy about the limits of friendship and marriage. A full-cast performance featuring: Lindsay Crouse,...

A high school reunion triggers cultural hostilities between a bully and the man he once victimized. A full-cast performance featuring: Amy Morton, William Petersen, Linda Reiter and Marc Vann.\

Keine Beschreibung.

Benny Silverman, a retired, successful actor, seems to have surmounted the bitter time in his life when Leo Greshen, a good friend and colleague named him in front of the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Bennys flourishing career was nearly destroyed, and his comeback was slow and painful. The two men havent spoken since. But they are forced to deal with each other 30 years after the fact, when Bennys daughter wins a career-making ro...