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Hollywood Arms
''Hollywood Arms'' is a play by Carrie Hamilton and Carol Burnett. It ran at the Goodman Theatre and on Broadway in 2002. The play is adapted from Carol Burnett's memoir '' One More Time''. Background and productions The dramedy is set in Hollywood, California in 1941 and 1951, and centers on the heartbreak and laughter shared by three generations of women living on welfare in a dingy apartment house. The cast of characters, based on Carol Burnett and her real-life relatives, includes no-nonsense grandmother Nanny; Louise, a beautiful, alcoholic mother determined to be a writer for movie magazines; Jody, an absent father who is struggling with his own demons; and Helen, a young girl whose only escape is the rooftop of their rundown building, where she creates her own magical world and dreams of a successful show business career. The first workshop, still titled ''One More Time'', was supported by the Sundance Theatre Lab at the Sundance Resort in Utah during a two-week span in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carrie Hamilton
Carrie Louise Hamilton (December 5, 1963 – January 20, 2002) was an American actress, playwright and singer. Hamilton was a daughter of comedian Carol Burnett and producer Joe Hamilton. She was also the older sister of Jody Hamilton, an actress and producer, and singer Erin Hamilton. Biography Hamilton worked in a number of productions for film, stage, television and video. She took the role of Reggie Higgins in the TV version of the musical '' Fame'' for the fifth and sixth seasons (1985–1987), and portrayed the role of Maureen Johnson in the first national tour of the stage musical ''Rent'' to considerable acclaim. She also studied music and acting at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California. One of her films was ''Tokyo Pop'' (1988), in which she played an American singer who journeys to Japan. There, she found a relationship with both a singer (played by Diamond Yukai also known as Yutaka Tadokoro) and a band who made it into the Tokyo pop charts Top Ten. She per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donna Lynne Champlin
Donna Lynne Champlin (born January 21, 1971) is an American actress, dancer and singer from New York City. She is best known for playing Paula Proctor on The CW comedy-drama series ''Crazy Ex-Girlfriend''. Early life Champlin was born in Rochester, New York, to a technical writer mother and a scientist father. She participated in various lessons, theatre productions, and national and international competitions throughout her childhood, in voice, piano, flute, theatre and dance. Champlin went on to study musical theatre at Carnegie Mellon University, graduating with her BFA in 1993, and studied abroad as a 1992 Advanced Acting Scholar in Shakespeare and Chekhov at the University of Oxford. In 1992 she won the Princess Grace Foundation Award in Theatre. While still in college, she performed as Dorothy in ''The Wizard of Oz'' with Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera. Career Champlin took on the title role of ''Very Warm for May'', her Broadway debut in ''James Joyce's The Dead'', then ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caleb McLaughlin
Caleb Reginald McLaughlin (born October 13, 2001) is an American actor. He gained recognition for playing Lucas Sinclair in the Netflix series ''Stranger Things'' (2016–present). McLaughlin began his career on the Broadway stage as Young Simba in the musical ''The Lion King'' followed by small roles in television. Following his breakthrough with ''Stranger Things'', he appeared in the films '' High Flying Bird'' (2019) and ''Concrete Cowboy'' (2020), his first starring feature film role. His work also includes the miniseries ''The New Edition Story'' (2017) and various television voice acting roles. Early life Caleb Reginald McLaughlin was born on October 13, 2001 in Carmel, New York. He was born to parents April and Corey McLaughlin. He attended Kent Primary School and later attended George Fischer Middle School for one year. He studied dance for a year at Happy Feet Dance School in Carmel, New York and then attended Seven Star School of Performing Arts in Brewster Hill, New Yo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jenny Jules
Jenny Jules is an English actress. She started her acting career as a member of the youth theatre programme at the Tricycle Theatre in Kilburn, London. Her career has been closely linked with the Tricycle Theatre where she has acted numerous times; her credits there include two plays by August Wilson, both directed by Paulette Randall: ''Two Trains Running'' and ''Gem of the Ocean'', ''Walk Hard'' by Abram Hill, ''Wine in the Wilderness'' by Alice Childress, the dramatic reconstruction (by Richard Norton-Taylor) of the inquiry into the murder of Stephen Lawrence, ''The Colour of Justice'', and Lynn Nottage's ''Fabulation'', directed by Indhu Rubasingham. In 1992, she won a ''Time Out'' Award for her portrayal of Mediyah in '' Pecong'' at the Tricycle Theatre. That same year, she appeared with Helen Mirren on the second installment of ''Prime Suspect'' for Granada Television/ITV. Kathy Burke directed Jules in Debbie Tucker Green's ''Born Bad'' at the Hampstead Theatre, and Jules h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cotter Smith
Joseph Cotter Smith (born May 29, 1949) is an American stage, film, and television actor. Early life He was born in Washington, D.C., the son of Madeline (née Cotter) and John Lewis Smith, Jr., who was a federal judge. He graduated from the Lawrenceville School in 1968. In 1972, he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in literature at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut. Smith's grandfather was an attorney, as are his brother and sister, and he said, "It was sort of assumed that I would be a lawyer, too." Instead, when he finished college, he became a teacher. After a few years, however, his interest turned to acting. Career He began his acting career in New York City in 1978, studying with Stella Adler and at the Actors Studio. His New York theater credits include the Broadway premiere productions of ''Next Fall'', which was a 2010 Tony Award nominee for Best New Play, Wendy Wasserstein's ''An American Daughter'') and Lanford Wilson's ''Burn This''. He also co-starred ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Edwards (actor)
Anthony Charles Edwards (born July 19, 1962) is an American actor and director. He is known for his role as Dr. Mark Greene on the first eight seasons of '' ER'', for which he received a Golden Globe award and six Screen Actors Guild Awards, and was nominated for four consecutive Primetime Emmy Awards. He has appeared in various films and television series, including '' Top Gun'', ''Zodiac'', '' Gotcha!'', ''Miracle Mile'', ''Revenge of the Nerds'', '' Planes'', '' Northern Exposure'' and ''Designated Survivor''. Early life Edwards was born in Santa Barbara, California, the son of Erika Kem Edwards Plack (née Weber), an artist/landscape painter, and Peter Edwards, an architect to whom he was one of five children His maternal grandfather was designer Kem Weber. He is partly of German and Irish descent. He graduated from San Marcos High School in 1980. Edwards was encouraged by his parents to attend college before pursuing his interest in acting, which grew from the area's th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sydney Lucas
Sydney Ellen Lucas (born July 11, 2003) is an American child actress with credits in musical theatre, film and television. She is best known for her portrayal of Small Alison Bechdel in both the original Off-Broadway and Broadway productions of Lisa Kron and Jeanine Tesori's musical ''Fun Home''; she won an Obie Award and Theater World Award and received nominations for a Drama Desk Award and a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her performance. She currently stars in the main cast of AMC's western drama television series '' The Son'' as Jeannie McCullough. Life and career Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Sydney moved with her parents and two older brothers to New York City when she was two years old. Her parents run a software consulting company. In 2009, at age 6, Lucas underwent heart surgery to treat an atrial septal defect. Her older brother Jake Lucas is also a professional actor, and the two have appeared together in a commercial for Campbell’s Cream of Mushr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emily Skeggs
Emily D. Skeggs (born July 10, 1990) is an American actress and singer. She was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical in 2015 for playing the role of Medium Alison in ''Fun Home''.Clarke, DavidBWW "Interview: Emily Skeggs Talks 'Fun Home' 's Humor and Universal Relatability"broadwayworld.com, March 27, 2015, accessed April 30, 2015 Early life and education She was born in New York City, the daughter of Susan (née Casserly) and Gary Skeggs. Her father is a graphic designer, and her mother works in business. Skeggs graduated from Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School in 2008 and from Emerson College in 2012 with a degree in theatre and minor in writing. She wrote a play when she was six years old titled ''Star Girl'' which was performed at her school. At LaGuardia she played the role of Oolie/Donna in '' City of Angels'', in a cast that included Azealia Banks. At Emerson, she played Lady Macbeth in ''Macbeth'', Hero in ''Much Ado About Nothing'', and Mai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tyne Daly
Ellen Tyne Daly (; born February 21, 1946) is an American actress. She has won six Emmy Awards for her television work, a Tony Award and is a 2011 American Theatre Hall of Fame inductee. Daly began her career on stage in summer stock in New York, and made her Broadway debut in the play ''That Summer – That Fall'' in 1967. She is best known for her television role as Detective Mary Beth Lacey in ''Cagney & Lacey'' (1982–88), for which she is a four-time Emmy Award winner as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. In 1989, she starred in the Broadway revival of '' Gypsy'' and won the 1990 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical. Her other TV roles include Alice Henderson in '' Christy'' (1994–95), for which she won an Emmy in 1996 and Maxine Gray in ''Judging Amy'' (1999–2005), which won her a sixth Emmy in 2003. Her other Broadway credits include ''The Seagull'' (1992), her Tony-nominated role in '' Rabbit Hole'' (2006) and her Tony-nominated role in '' Mothers and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allyn & Bacon
Allyn & Bacon, founded in 1868, is a higher education textbook publisher in the areas of education, humanities and social sciences. It is an imprint of Pearson Education, the world's largest education publishing and technology company which is part of Pearson PLC. Allyn & Bacon was an independent company until it was purchased by Esquire, Inc., the former publishers of the magazine of the same name, in 1981. Esquire, Inc. was sold to Gulf+Western in 1983, and Allyn & Bacon became part of Simon & Schuster's education division. Pearson purchased the education and reference divisions of Simon & Schuster in 1998. In 2007 Allyn & Bacon merged with Merrill, also a Pearson Pearson may refer to: Organizations Education *Lester B. Pearson College, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada *Pearson College (UK), London, owned by Pearson PLC *Lester B. Pearson High School (other) Companies *Pearson PLC, a UK-based int ... company. As a result of the merge, the company's website changed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judith Dolan
Judith Anne Dolan (born June 25, 1944, Long Beach, California) is an Tony Award winning American costume designer. She currently teaches on the faculty of the University of California, San Diego where she is a professor of design and directing in the Department of Theatre and Dance. She has designed costumes for several original Broadway productions, including Stephen Sondheim's '' Merrily We Roll Along'', Andrew Lloyd Webber's ''Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat'' (1982), Jason Robert Brown's ''Parade'' (1998), and Alfred Uhry's ''LoveMusik'' (2007). Biography Born and raised in California, Dolan has an MFA in Costume Design and a PhD in directing, design/theater, and aesthetic theory from Stanford University. She made her Broadway debut designing costumes for the original production of Stephen Sondheim's '' Merrily We Roll Along'' in 1981. She won the 1995 Lucille Lortelle Award for Outstanding Costume Design for the Off-Broadway production of Michael John LaChiusa's '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Award For Best Performance By A Featured Actress In A Play
The Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play is an honor presented at the Tony Awards, a ceremony established in 1947 as the Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, to actresses for quality supporting roles in a Broadway theatre, Broadway play. The awards are named after Antoinette Perry, an American actress who died in 1946. Honors in several categories are presented at the ceremony annually by the Tony Award Productions, a joint venture of The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing, to "honor the best performances and stage productions of the previous year." Originally called the "Tony Award for Actress, Supporting or Featured (Dramatic)", Patricia Neal first won the award at the 1st Tony Awards, inception of the ceremony for her portrayal of Regina Hubbard in Lillian Hellman's ''Another Part of the Forest''. Before 1956, nominees' names were not made public: the change was made by the awards committee to "have a greater impact on theatregoers". The award ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
