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A Cry Of Players
''A Cry of Players'' is a drama by William Gibson, first performed in 1968, that portrays the young adult life of William Shakespeare. The title comes from ''Hamlet'', spoken by the aforementioned, Act 3, Scene 2: "Would not this, sir, and a forest of feathers-- if the rest of my fortunes turn Turk with me--with two provincial roses on my razed shoes, get me a fellowship in a cry of players, sir?" Productions The original production opened on July 24, 1968 at the Berkshire Theatre Festival in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. The show was directed by Gene Frankel. The show transferred to Broadway to the Repertory Theatre, Lincoln Center and premiered on November 14, 1968. The crew was made up by set design David Hays, costume design Patricia Quinn Stewart, and lighting design John Gleason. Frankel would also direct. Understudies were Ruth Attaway (Meg), Frank Bayer (Arthur), James Cook (Kemp), Leslie Graves (Susanna), Douglas Hayle (Heming), Robert Levine (Richards, Gilbert, Berry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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. Early life and education Gibson graduated from the City College of New York in 1938, and was of Irish, French, German, Dutch and Russian and Greek ancestry. Work as playwright 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. Gibson published a chronicle of the vicissitudes of rewriting for the sake of this production with a nonfiction book in the following year, ''The Seesaw Log''. His most famous play is ''The Miracle Worker'' (1959), the story of Helen Keller's childhood education, which won him the Tony Award for Best Play after he adapted it from his original 1957 telefilm script. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lois Kibbee
Lois Kibbee (July 13, 1922 – October 18, 1993) was an American actress. Kibbee was born in Wheeling, West Virginia. The daughter of actor Milton Kibbee and the niece of actor Guy Kibbee, Kibbee played in a number of television and film roles. On TV, Kibbee's most notable roles were on daytime soap operas. She had a long run as wealthy Geraldine Weldon Whitney Saxon on the CBS/American Broadcasting Company, ABC daytime soap opera ''The Edge of Night'', where she appeared from 1970–71 and again from 1973 until the show's end in 1984. She also portrayed frosty matriarch Emily Moore Matson on NBC's ''Somerset (TV series), Somerset'' from 1972 to 1973, a character whose eccentric family was involved in a murder storyline centered on "Jingles the Clown". Later in her career she played powerful matriarch Elizabeth Sanders (One Life to Live), Elizabeth Sanders on ABC's ''One Life to Live'' (from 1986–88 and again in 1989). In film, Kibbee may be best remembered for her role in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago Tribune
The ''Chicago Tribune'' is a daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, owned by Tribune Publishing. Founded in 1847, and formerly self-styled as the "World's Greatest Newspaper" (a slogan for which WGN radio and television are named), it remains the most-read daily newspaper in the Chicago metropolitan area and the Great Lakes region. It had the sixth-highest circulation for American newspapers in 2017. In the 1850s, under Joseph Medill, the ''Chicago Tribune'' became closely associated with the Illinois politician Abraham Lincoln, and the Republican Party's progressive wing. In the 20th century under Medill's grandson, Robert R. McCormick, it achieved a reputation as a crusading paper with a decidedly more American-conservative anti-New Deal outlook, and its writing reached other markets through family and corporate relationships at the ''New York Daily News'' and the ''Washington Times-Herald.'' The 1960s saw its corporate parent owner, Tribune Company, rea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jess Osuna
Jess Osuna (May 28, 1928 – April 2, 2011) was an American character actor whose credits included '' Three Days of the Condor'' and '' My Old Man''. Osuna had a successful film, television and stage career, including the films '' A New Leaf'', '' Three Days of the Condor'', ''All the President's Men'', '' Taps'' and ''Kramer vs. Kramer'', and the television shows '' Columbo'', ''Kojak'', ''NYPD'' and '' Hawk''. He had extensive theatre credits as well, and his Broadway credits include ''Happy Birthday Wanda June,'' Edison Theatre, 1970–1971, ''An Almost Perfect Person'', The Belasco Theatre, 1977–1978, and ''The Goodbye People'' by Herb Gardner, at The Ethel Barrymore Theatre, 1968. He also starred in the Berkshire Theatre Festival's 1968 premiere production of ''A Cry of Players'' as Gilbert. He was first a student, then an instructor and performer at HB Studios in Greenwich Village, New York City. He studied with both Herbert Berghoff and Uta Hagen and eventually taught ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gilbert Shakespeare
Gilbert Shakespeare (baptised 13 October 1566, buried probably 3 February 1612) was a 16th-/17th-century English haberdasher, and a younger brother of playwright and poet William Shakespeare. His name is found in local records of Stratford-upon-Avon and London. Life Gilbert's father, John Shakespeare, was a glover living in Henley Street, Stratford, and an alderman of the town from 1564. Gilbert may have been named after Gilbert Bradley, also a glover, who lived on the same street and who in 1565 was one of the capital burgesses of Stratford. He was baptized in the Holy Trinity on 13 October 1566.William Shakespeare Brothers & Sisters ''William-shakespeare.info'' Gilbert contracted and survived the plague. A single surviving signature shows h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kristoffer Tabori
Kristoffer Tabori (also known as K.T. Donaldson, born Christopher Donald Siegel; August 4, 1952) is an American actor and television director. Early life Tabori was born in Malibu, California, the son of American film director Don Siegel and Swedish-American actress Viveca Lindfors. He appeared in one of his mother's films, '' Weddings and Babies'', as a young boy. In 1995, they appeared together in ''Last Summer in the Hamptons''. His parents divorced in 1953 and Lindfors married Hungarian writer and director George Tabori. Kristoffer adopted his stepfather's surname and changed the English spelling of his forename. Career He started his career as a stage actor in his teens in the late 1960s, and during the 1970s he appeared in many films, including '' John and Mary'' (1969), ''Pigeons'' (1971), '' Making It'' (1971), '' Journey Through Rosebud'' (1972) and '' Girlfriends'' (1978). The majority of his work, however, was in television drama, beginning with a notable role (Bert) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susan Tyrrell
Susan Tyrrell (born Susan Jillian Creamer; March 18, 1945 – June 16, 2012) was an American character actress. Tyrrell's career began in theater in New York City in the 1960s in Broadway and off Broadway productions. Her first film was ''Shoot Out'' (1971). She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Oma in John Huston's '' Fat City'' (1972). In 1978, Tyrrell received the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in ''Andy Warhol's Bad'' (1977). Her ''New York Times'' obituary described her as "a whiskey-voiced character actress (with) talent for playing the downtrodden, outré, and grotesque." Early life Tyrrell was born in San Francisco, California, to a British mother, Gillian (née Tyrrell; 1913–2012), and an American father, John Belding Creamer. Her mother was a socialite and member of the diplomatic corps in China and the Philippines during the 1930s and 1940s. Her father John was an agent with the W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
René Auberjonois
René Murat Auberjonois (; June 1, 1940 – December 8, 2019) was an American actor and director. He was best known for portraying Odo on '' Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'' (1993–1999). He first achieved fame as a stage actor, winning the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical in 1970 for his portrayal of Sebastian Baye opposite Katharine Hepburn in the André Previn-Alan Jay Lerner musical '' Coco''. He went on to earn three more Tony nominations for performances in Neil Simon's '' The Good Doctor'' (1973), Roger Miller's '' Big River'' (1985), and Cy Coleman's '' City of Angels'' (1989); he won a Drama Desk Award for ''Big River''. A screen actor with more than 200 credits, Auberjonois was most famous for portraying characters in the main casts of several long-running television series, including Clayton Endicott III on ''Benson'' (1979–1986), for which he was an Emmy Award nominee, and Paul Lewiston on '' Boston Legal'' (2004–2008). In films, Auberjonois portray ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Elliott (actor)
Elliott Pershing Stitzel (November 27, 1918 – May 21, 2005), better known by his stage name Stephen Elliott, was an American actor. His best known roles were that of the prospective father-in-law, Burt Johnson, in the hit 1981 film ''Arthur'' and as Chief Hubbard in the 1984 blockbuster ''Beverly Hills Cop''. Career Theatre From 1940 to 1942, Elliott studied acting with Sanford Meisner at New York's Neighborhood Playhouse."Stephen Elliott, 86; Veteran Stage, Film and TV Actor Known for Role in 'Arthur'" ''The Los Angeles Times''. May 24, 2005. After serving in with the |
William Roerick
William George Roerich (December 17, 1912 – November 30, 1995) was an American actor. He is particularly associated with the stage, but also played in many films and TV productions. He was also a stage manager and writer. His name is sometimes given as William Roehrick. Early life Roerick was born December 17, 1912 in Hoboken, New Jersey and was a classically trained actor. He graduated from Hamilton College in 1934 and was a student at the Stockbridge Playhouse drama school in 1935. Career Acting career He made his Broadway debut that same year in ''Romeo and Juliet''. He played on Broadway for 45 years, his last Broadway role being in '' Happy New Year'' in 1980. Roerick's career was largely in theater, but he did make appearances in several films. His television roles include the role of Henry Chamberlain in the television soap opera ''Guiding Light''. Roerick played that role from 1980 to 1995 (his death). He was nominated for an Emmy Award for best supporting actor f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Symonds
Robert Symonds (December 1, 1926 – August 23, 2007) was an American actor. He was the associate director of the Repertory Theater of Lincoln Center from 1965 through 1972. Career His stage credits with the Lincoln Center include productions of ''The Caucasian Chalk Circle'', ''Cyrano de Bergerac'', ''The Miser'', ''Twelfth Night'', and ''A Streetcar Named Desire''. His motion picture credits include ''The Exorcist'' (as Dr. Taney), ''Gray Lady Down'', ''The Ice Pirates'', ''Crimewave'', ''Still Frame'', ''Rumpelstiltskin'', '' Mandroid'', ''Primary Colors'' and ''Catch Me If You Can''. On television, Symonds played Benjamin Franklin in the 1976 PBS mini-series The Adams Chronicles and the recurring role of Dr. Jonas Edwards on ''Dynasty'' from 1982 to 1987, and guest-starred on many series, including ''The Rockford Files'', ''M*A*S*H'', ''Benson'', '' Cheers'', ''Quincy, M.E.'', '' Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'' (as a Bajoran in the episode " Accession"), '' ER'', ''Alias ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susanna Hall
Susanna Hall (née Shakespeare; baptised 26 May 1583 – 11 July 1649) was the oldest child of William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway and the older sister of twins Judith and Hamnet Shakespeare. Susanna married John Hall, a local physician, in 1607. They had one daughter, Elizabeth, in 1608. Elizabeth married Thomas Nash, son of Anthony Nash on 22 April 1626 at Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon. Birth and early life Susanna was baptised in the Church of the Holy Trinity, Stratford-upon-Avon on Trinity Sunday (a church feast day), 26 May 1583. Schoenbaum, S. (1987) ''William Shakespeare: A Compact Documentary Life''. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Ackroyd, Peter. (2005) ''Shakespeare: The Biography''. New York: Anchor. Shakespeare's wife Anne was already pregnant with Susanna when the couple were married. The name "Susanna" derives from the story of Susanna and the elders in the Book of Daniel and suggests "purity and spotlessness", and had associations t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
