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Howard Ryshpan
Howard Ryshpan (born December 5, 1932 in New York City) (son of Reuben Ryshpan (1887-1977) and Cecilia Nathanson) is a Canadians, Canadian anglophone screen and voice character actor, in radio, film, television and theater. He also taught theater. He has directed numerous plays, notably at festivals. As an artist, Howard Ryshpan is one of the pioneers of Black & White English television in Montreal which started in September 1952. His father Reuben was born in Poland from Hungarian origin parents, having arrived in Connecticut at the age of 9. His mother Cecilia who was born in Ottawa was a musician and music teacher successively in Ottawa, Toronto and New York. Howard's parents moved from New York City to Montreal in 1934. Howard Ryshpan studied at Strathcona Christian Academy in Outremont, until grade 9 (until 1947); one year at Montreal Technical School (1947-48), which was run by the Jesuits on Sherbrooke Street; and three years at Bishop's College (1948-51). In June 1951, Howa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bronx
The Bronx () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Bronx County, in the state of New York. It is south of Westchester County; north and east of the New York City borough of Manhattan, across the Harlem River; and north of the New York City borough of Queens, across the East River. The Bronx has a land area of and a population of 1,472,654 in the 2020 census. If each borough were ranked as a city, the Bronx would rank as the ninth-most-populous in the U.S. Of the five boroughs, it has the fourth-largest area, fourth-highest population, and third-highest population density.New York State Department of Health''Population, Land Area, and Population Density by County, New York State – 2010'' retrieved on August 8, 2015. It is the only borough of New York City not primarily on an island. With a population that is 54.8% Hispanic as of 2020, it is the only majority-Hispanic county in the Northeastern United States and the fourth-most-populous nationwide. The Bronx ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Fry
Christopher Fry (18 December 1907 – 30 June 2005) was an English poet and playwright. He is best known for his verse dramas, especially ''The Lady's Not for Burning'', which made him a major force in theatre in the 1940s and 1950s. Biography Early life Fry was born as Arthur Hammond Harris in Bristol, the son of Charles John Harris, a master builder who retired early to work full-time as a licensed Lay Reader in the Church of England, and his wife Emma Marguerite Fry Hammond Harris. While still young, he took his mother's maiden name because, on very tenuous grounds, he believed her to be related to the 19th-century Quaker prison reformer Elizabeth Fry. He adopted Elizabeth Fry's faith, and became a Quaker. After attending Bedford Modern School, where he wrote amateur plays, he became a schoolteacher, working at the Bedford Froebel Kindergarten and Hazelwood School in Limpsfield, Surrey. In the 1920s, he met the writer Robert Gittings, who became a lifelong friend. Caree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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), '' A Delicate Balance'' (1966), and ''Three Tall Women'' (1994). Some critics have argued that some of his work constitutes an American variant of what Martin Esslin identified and named the Theater of the Absurd. 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 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 such as Samuel Beckett, Eugène Ionesco, and Jean Genet. His middle period comprised plays that explored the psychology of maturing, marriage, and sexual relationships. Younger American playwrights, such as Paula Vogel, credit Albee's mix ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sainte-Catherine-de-Hatley
Sainte-Catherine-de-Hatley is a municipality in the Memphrémagog Regional County Municipality in the Eastern Townships region of Quebec, Canada. Located along Quebec Route 108 on Little Lake Magog, it is the home of the "Marais" birdwatching sanctuary, the Eglise Sainte Catherine de Hatley, as well as the Dominique Savio primary School. Geography Sainte-Catherine-de-Hatley is located 10 km south of Sherbrooke and 10 km east of Magog, Quebec, Magog, between the southeast shore of lake Magog and the west shore of lake Massawippi. Establishments Sainte-Catherine-de-Hatley includes a church, a cemetery, a community hall, two lakes (in part), Île du Marais, an inn-restaurant, a convenience store, a canteen, a butcher, a campsite, a horticulture center, a dog park, a theater, an antique dealer, a credit union, a primary school, a town hall as well as several tourist and recreational facilities. The Sainte-Catherine-de-Hatley Auberge (restaurant) located opposite the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piggery Theatre
The Piggery Theatre (''French: Le Théâtre Piggery'') is a summer community theater in Sainte-Catherine-de-Hatley, in the Memphrémagog Regional County Municipality, in Estrie, in Quebec, Canada. By 1990, the Piggery was already the oldest professional English-language theater in Quebec and the only English-language summer theater in the province. Surrounded by a forest (originally surrounded by fields) and mountainous setting, this entertainment site is also renowned for the organization of business or association meetings, meetings of friends or family, weddings as well. than other social or artistic events. Some events at the Piggery are aimed at raising funds for organizations. In addition, since the 1980s, the Piggery has organized an art gallery where local artists and artisans offer their crafts and wares all summer long. This art gallery Emily LeBaron (1906-1983) was thus designated in recognition of this artist, craftswoman, antique dealer and volunteer greatly involved, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montreal Instant Theater
Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the second-most populous city in Canada and most populous city in the Canadian province of Quebec. Founded in 1642 as '' Ville-Marie'', or "City of Mary", it is named after Mount Royal, the triple-peaked hill around which the early city of Ville-Marie is built. The city is centred on the Island of Montreal, which obtained its name from the same origin as the city, and a few much smaller peripheral islands, the largest of which is Île Bizard. The city is east of the national capital Ottawa, and southwest of the provincial capital, Quebec City. As of 2021, the city had a population of 1,762,949, and a metropolitan population of 4,291,732, making it the second-largest city, and second-largest metropolitan area in Canada. French is the city's official language. In 2021, it was spoken at home by 59.1% of the population and 69.2% in the Montreal Census Metropolitan Area. Overall, 85.7% of the population of the city of Montreal consider ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murray Schisgal
Murray Joseph Schisgal (November 25, 1926 – October 1, 2020) was an American playwright and screenwriter. Life and career Schisgal was born in Brooklyn, New York City. He was the son of Jewish immigrants, Irene (Sperling), a bank clerk, and Abraham Schisgal, a tailor. Schisgal won his first recognition for the 1963 off-Broadway double-bill ''The Typists'' and ''The Tiger'', which received the Drama Desk Award. His 1965 Broadway debut, '' Luv'', was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Play and for Best Author of a Play. Other credits include ''Jimmy Shine'', ''74 Georgia Avenue'', ''Naked Old Man'' and ''All Over Town'', which received a Drama Desk nomination. Schisgal also wrote ''The Love Song of Barney Kempinski'', which was the first presentation of ''ABC Stage 67'', and the screenplay for ''The Tiger Makes Out''. Along with Larry Gelbart, Schisgal co-wrote the screenplay for ''Tootsie'', for which he was nominated for an Oscar, Golden Globe, and BAFTA, and for which he won ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan Stuart (actress)
Joan Stuart (6 February 1937- 30 October 1996) was a Canadian actress, singer and dancer in television, film and theater. Joan Stuart was an actress, known for Les femmes de 30 ans (1978), Comedy Cafe (1970) and Just Ask, Inc. (1981). Biography Theater Joan Stuart played in "Up Tempo' 59", an off-beat musical revue, at Café André, 2077 Victoria St., Montreal for more than 20 week. There was two shows nightly. Sylvia Gillespie, Frank Blanche and Joan Stuart were among the top rank young actors in the cast. In the summer of 1965, Joan Stuart played with Howard Ryshpan in the play "The Tiger", written by Murray Schisgal, produced by Montreal Instant Theater for Piggery Playhouse Guild inc at "The Piggery-Summer Theater" in North Hatley, inaugurated on August 2, 1965. This play will be performed on Oct. 21, 1965 at the Canadian Institute, at the Canadian Women's Circle. Television *"A World of Music", 23 octobre 1960. Host: Wally Koster. Guess: Joan Stuart, Shirley Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Place Ville Marie
Place Ville Marie (PVM for short) is a large office and shopping complex skyscraper in Downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada, comprising four office buildings and an underground shopping plaza. It serves as the main and official headquarters for Royal Bank of Canada, Canada's Largest Bank. The main building, 1 Place Ville Marie (formerly Royal Bank Tower from its anchor tenant), was built in the International style in 1962 as the headquarters for the Royal Bank of Canada, which it still is presently. It is a , 47- storey, cruciform office tower. The complex is a nexus for Montreal's Underground City, the world's busiest, with indoor access to over 1,600 businesses, numerous subway stations, a suburban transportation terminal, and tunnels extending throughout downtown. A counter-clockwise rotating beacon on the rooftop lights up at night, illuminating the surrounding sky with up to four white horizontal beams that can be seen as far as away. The light is not for airplanes. Bui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Dyer (playwright)
Charles Raymond Dyer (7 July 1928 – 23 January 2021) was an English playwright, actor and screenwriter. Life and career His first appearance was in 1948, at the Whitehall Theatre. His first play "''Who On Earth''", was published in 1953. He died in January 2021 at the age of 92. Theatre *1948: ''Clubs Are Sometimes Trumps'' *1951: ''Who on Earth?'' *1953: ''Turtle in the Soup'' *1954: ''Jovial Parasite'' *1955: ''Single Ticket to Mars'' *1956: ''Wanted, One Body!'' *1956: ''Time, Murderer, Please'' *1957: ''Poison in Jest'' *1959: ''Prelude to Fury'' *1960: ''Red Cabbage and Kings'' *1962: ''La Crécelle'' (''Rattle of a Simple Man'') *1964: ''Gorillas Drink Milk'' *1966: ''L'Escalier'' ('' Staircase''), an adaptation of which in France will inspire Jean Poiret, ''La Cage aux Folles'', in a comic version *1971: ''Mother Adam'' *1975: ''A Hot Godly Wind'' *1980: ''Futility Rites'' *1983: ''Lovers Dancing'' Filmography ;Scriptwriter * 1964: ''Rattle of a Simple Man'' f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Ustinov
Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov (born Peter Alexander Freiherr von Ustinov ; 16 April 192128 March 2004) was a British actor, filmmaker and writer. An internationally known raconteur, he was a fixture on television talk shows and lecture circuits for much of his career. An intellectual and diplomat, he held various academic posts and served as a goodwill ambassador for UNICEF and president of the World Federalist Movement. Ustinov was the winner of numerous awards during his life, including two Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor, Emmy Awards, Golden Globes, and BAFTA Awards for acting, and a Grammy Award for best recording for children, as well as the recipient of governmental honours from, amongst others, the United Kingdom, France, and Germany. He also displayed a unique cultural versatility which frequently earned him the accolade of a Renaissance man. Miklós Rózsa, composer of the music for ''Quo Vadis'' and of numerous concert works, dedicated his String Quartet No. 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Knott
Frederick Major Paull Knott (28 August 1916 – 17 December 2002) was an English playwright and screenwriter known for his complex crime-related plots. Although he was a reluctant writer and completed only a small number of plays in his career, two have become well-known: the London-based stage thriller ''Dial M for Murder'', later filmed in Hollywood by Alfred Hitchcock, and the 1966 play ''Wait Until Dark'', which was adapted to a Hollywood film directed by Terence Young. He also wrote the Broadway mystery ''Write Me a Murder''. Life and career Knott was born in Hankou, China, the son of English missionaries, Margaret Caroline (Paull) and Cyril Wakefield Knott. He was educated at Oundle School from 1929 to 1934 and later gained a law degree from Cambridge University. He became interested in theatre after watching performances of Gilbert and Sullivan works held by the Hankow Operatic Society. Frederick Knott was descended from a line of wealthy Lancashire mill-owners, and i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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