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Pacific Resident Theatre
Pacific Resident Theatre (PRT) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit theatre company located at 703 Venice Boulevard in Venice, California. It was founded as an actors cooperative in Venice's arts district in 1985 and is dedicated to producing both classic and little known plays, as well as works by new authors. The company has received over 90 awards including awards from the L.A. Drama Critics Circle, Drama-Logue, the NAACP The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W. E.&nb ..., the LA Weekly Theater Award, LA Weekly and Back Stage Garland Awards, Garland. References {{reflist External links Official website Theatre companies in Los Angeles Arts organizations established in 1985 1985 establishments in California ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venice, California
Venice is a neighborhood of the city of Los Angeles within the Westside region of Los Angeles County, California. Venice was founded by Abbot Kinney in 1905 as a seaside resort town. It was an independent city until 1926, when it was annexed by Los Angeles. Venice is known for its canals, a beach, and Ocean Front Walk, a pedestrian promenade that features performers, fortune-tellers, and vendors. History 19th century In 1839, a region called La Ballona that included the southern parts of Venice, was granted by the Mexican government to Ygnacio and Augustin Machado and Felipe and Tomas Talamantes, giving them title to Rancho La Ballona. Later this became part of Port Ballona. Founding Venice, originally called "Venice of America", was founded by wealthy developer Abbot Kinney in 1905 as a beach resort town, west of Los Angeles. He and his partner Francis Ryan had bought of ocean-front property south of Santa Monica in 1891. They built a resort town on the north end of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prelude To A Kiss (play)
''Prelude to a Kiss'' is a 1988 play by Craig Lucas. The play, with a runtime of roughly 70 minutes, tells the story of Peter and Rita, a couple that falls in love despite the woman's pessimistic fear of the world. Shortly after their wedding, a supernatural event tests the strength of their love and commitment to each other. When it premiered, it was considered by many critics to be an allegory for couples affected by the AIDS crisis.Hebert, Jame"Lucas' 'Prelude to a Kiss' gets a nimble staging in Carlsbad" Union-Tribune, San Diego, April 22, 2008. A preview version of the play premiered on January 15, 1988, in Costa Mesa, California, directed by Norman René. Following this, the play was revised and made its official debut on March 14, 1990, in New York City. The revised, official version was directed by Réné, with Alec Baldwin and Mary-Louise Parker as Peter and Rita. The title is taken from the 1938 torch song of the same title by Duke Ellington. The play was later adapted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Master Builder
''The Master Builder'' ( no, Bygmester Solness) is a play by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. It was first published in December 1892 and is regarded as one of Ibsen's more significant and revealing works. Performance The play was published by Gyldendal AS in Copenhagen in 1892 and its first performance was on 19 January 1893 at the Lessing Theatre in Berlin, with Emanuel Reicher as Solness. It opened at the Trafalgar Theatre in London the following month, with Herbert H. Waring in the name part and Elizabeth Robins as Hilda. The English translation was by the theatre critic William Archer and poet Edmund Gosse. Productions in Oslo and Copenhagen were coordinated to open on 8 March 1893. In the following year, the work was staged by Théâtre de l'Œuvre, the international company based in Paris. The first U.S. performance was at the Carnegie Lyceum in New York on 16 January 1900, with William Pascoe and Florence Kahn. Characters * Halvard Solness, master builder * Alin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Earth Spirit (play)
''Earth Spirit'' (1895) (''Erdgeist'') is a play (theatre), play by the Germany, German dramatist Frank Wedekind. It forms the first part of his pairing of 'Lulu' plays; the second is ''Pandora's Box (play), Pandora's Box'' (1904), both depicting a society "riven by the demands of lust and greed".Article "Frank Wedekind" in Banham 1998, pp. 1189-1190). In German folklore an ''erdgeist'' is a gnome, first described in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Goethe's ''Faust Part One, Faust'' (1808). Together with ''Pandora's Box'', Wedekind's play formed the basis for the silent film ''Pandora's Box (1929 film), Pandora's Box'' (1929) starring Louise Brooks and the opera ''Lulu (opera), Lulu'' by Alban Berg (1935, premiered posthumously in 1937). In the original manuscript, dating from 1894, the ‘Lulu’ drama was in five acts and subtitled ‘A Monster Tragedy’. Wedekind subsequently divided the work into two plays: ''Earth Spirit'' (German: ''Erdgeist'', first printed 1895) and ''Pandora's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tonight At 8
Tonight may refer to: Television * ''Tonight'' (1957 TV programme), a 1957–1965 British current events television programme hosted by Cliff Michelmore that was broadcast on BBC * ''Tonight'' (1975 TV programme), a 1975–1979 British current events television programme on BBC One * ''Tonight'' (1999 TV programme), a British news magazine television programme hosted by Julie Etchingham that has aired on ITV since 1999 * ''Tonight'' (New Zealand TV programme), a New Zealand evening news programme hosted by Kate Hawkesby * ''The Tonight Show'', a United States talk show, also known in its early years as simply ''Tonight'' * ''Tonight with Arnold Clavio'', a Philippine television talk show * "Tonight" (''Prison Break''), an episode of ''Prison Break'' Music Bands * Tonight (band), a British new-wave group Albums * ''Tonight'' (Clark Terry-Bob Brookmeyer Quintet album), 1965 * ''Tonight'' (David Bowie album), or the title song (see below) * ''Tonight'' (FM album), 1987 * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otherwise Engaged
''Otherwise Engaged'' is a bleakly comic play by English playwright Simon Gray. The play previewed at the Oxford Playhouse and the Richmond Theatre, and then opened at the Queen's Theatre in London on 10 July 1975, with Alan Bates as the star and Harold Pinter as director, produced by Michael Codron. Ian Charleson co-starred as Dave, a Glasgow lout. Michael Gambon took over from Bates in 1976, "playing it for a year, eight times a week." The play also had a successful run on Broadway, opening in February 1977 with Tom Courtenay as Simon and Carolyn Lagerfelt as Beth. It won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play. Plot The play revolves around a British publisher named Simon Hench. When we first see Hench, he has settled down in his lavish living room, and plans to spend a pleasant afternoon listening to Parsifal. However, Hench is repeatedly interrupted by his tenant, his friends, family and aspiring writers, all of whom want something from him. First, he is v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Swan (play)
A swan is a bird of the genus ''Cygnus'' (true swans) or ''Coscoroba'' (coscoroba swans). Swan, swans, or The Swan may also refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Film and television * ''The Swan'' (1925 film), a 1925 silent film * ''The Swan'' (1956 film), a 1956 remake of a 1925 film of the same title * Swan (1976 film), a Bulgarian drama film * ''Swan'', a television ident for BBC Two first aired in early 1998, see BBC Two '1991–2001' idents * ''The Swan'' (TV series), a U.S. reality TV series from 2004 * ''Swan'' (2011 film), a Portuguese film directed by Teresa Villaverde Literature * ''Swan'' (manga), a shōjo manga by Ariyoshi Kyoko * "The Swan" (Baudelaire), a poem by Baudelaire * ''The Swan'' (newspaper), a student newspaper of St. Hugh's College, Oxford * ''The Swan'' (novel), an English translation edition of 1991 novel by Guðbergur Bergsson * "The Swan" (short story), a 1977 story by Roald Dahl * ''The Swan'', a 1920 play by Ferenc Molnár * ''The Swan'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Scarecrow (play)
''The Scarecrow'' is a play written by Percy MacKaye in 1908, and first presented on Broadway in 1911. It is based on Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story, "Feathertop", but greatly expands upon the tale. Mackaye himself stated that he hoped that the play would not be taken as a dramatization of "Feathertop", since the intentions of the two works are so different: "The scarecrow Feathertop is ridiculous, as the emblem of a superficial fop; the scarecrow Ravensbane is pitiful, as the emblem of human bathos." Productions Frank Reicher, known to modern audiences for playing the ship's captain in the original ''King Kong'' and its sequel ''Son of Kong'', starred in the title role in the original 1911 Broadway production. The play had what would now be considered an extremely short run in New York (23 performances). In 1923 it was filmed as a silent movie, ''Puritan Passions'', starring Mary Astor. The play was revived twice in New York (most recently in 2005), has been made into an opera, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Killing Of Sister George
''The Killing of Sister George'' is a 1964 play by Frank Marcus that was later adapted into a The Killing of Sister George (film), 1968 film directed by Robert Aldrich. Stage version Sister George is a beloved character in the popular radio series ''Applehurst'', a district nurse who ministers to the medical needs and personal problems of the local villagers. She is played by June Buckridge, who in real life is a gin-guzzling, cigar-chomping, slightly Sadomasochism, sadistic masculine woman, the antithesis of the sweet character she plays. She is often called George in real life, and lives with Alice "Childie" McNaught, a younger dimwitted woman she often verbally and sometimes physically abuses. When George discovers that her character is scheduled to be killed off, she becomes increasingly impossible to work and live with. Mercy Croft, an executive at the radio station, intercedes in her professional and personal lives, supposedly to help, but she actually has an agenda of her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lady Chatterley's Lover
''Lady Chatterley's Lover'' is the last novel by English author D. H. Lawrence, which was first published privately in 1928, in Italy, and in 1929, in France. An unexpurgated edition was not published openly in the United Kingdom until 1960, when it was the subject of a watershed obscenity trial against the publisher Penguin Books, which won the case and quickly sold three million copies. The book was also banned for obscenity in the United States, Canada, Australia, India and Japan. The book soon became notorious for its story of the physical (and emotional) relationship between a working-class man and an upper-class woman, its explicit descriptions of sex and its use of then-unprintable four-letter words. Background The story is said to have originated from certain events in Lawrence's own unhappy domestic life, and he took inspiration for the settings of the book from Nottinghamshire, where he grew up. According to some critics, the fling of Lady Ottoline Morrell with "Tige ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Love (play)
''Big Love'' is a play by American playwright Charles L. Mee. Based on Aeschylus's ''The Suppliants'', it is about fifty brides who flee to a manor in Italy to avoid marrying their fifty cousins. The play takes the plot of the original Greek play into modern times, including such details as having the grooms ambush the brides by helicopter. While the brides and grooms wait for their wedding day, the characters raise issues of gender politics, love, and domestic violence. The first production of the play was directed by Les Waters at the Actor's Theatre of Louisville in 2000. This play has been produced many times and is very popular. In a 2003 interview with ''Open Stages'' newsletter, Mee said, "[I wanted to go back to what some people thought was one of the earliest plays of the Western World, which is The Suppliant Women, and see how that would look today. See if it still spoke to the moment, and of course it does. It’s all about refugees and gender wars and men and wome ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betrayal (play)
''Betrayal'' is a play written by Harold Pinter in 1978. Critically regarded as one of the English playwright's major dramatic works, it features his characteristically economical dialogue, characters' hidden emotions and veiled motivations, and their self-absorbed competitive one-upmanship, face-saving, dishonesty, and (self-) deceptions.Billington 257–67; cf. performance review by Bryden 204–06 and review essay by Merritt 192–99; see also film reviews by Canby and Ebert. Inspired by Pinter's clandestine extramarital affair with BBC Television presenter Joan Bakewell, which spanned seven years, from 1962 to 1969,Billington 257–58, 264–67; cf. the memoir by Bakewell, which includes two chapters on her relationship and affair with Pinter. the plot of ''Betrayal'' integrates different permutations of betrayal relating to a seven-year affair involving a married couple, Emma and Robert, and Robert's "close friend" Jerry, who is also married, to a woman named Judith. Fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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