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Park Eun-seok
Park Eun-seok (; born 10 February 1984) is a South Korean actor. He is best known for his work in theatre and is also known for his breakout performance in the 2020 television drama '' The Penthouse: War in Life''. Life Born in South Korea, Park immigrated to the US with his family at the age of 7, settling in Long Island, Huntington, New York. He returned to Korea in 2005 at the age of 21 to pursue an acting career. Being a permanent resident of the United States at the time, Park voluntarily served in the South Korean military in order to improve his Korean. He later gave up his permanent resident status after being discharged from the military. Filmography Television series Film Television shows Web shows Stage Awards and nominations * 2015 SACA Awards Popular Actor Award * 2016 The 12th Interpark Golden Ticket Awards ''Amusement Today'' is a monthly periodical that features articles, news, pictures and reviews about all things relating to the amusement p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seoul
Seoul (; ; ), officially known as the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea.Before 1972, Seoul was the ''de jure'' capital of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) as stated iArticle 103 of the 1948 constitution. According to the 2020 census, Seoul has a population of 9.9 million people, and forms the heart of the Seoul Capital Area with the surrounding Incheon metropolis and Gyeonggi province. Considered to be a global city and rated as an Alpha – City by Globalization and World Cities Research Network (GaWC), Seoul was the world's fourth largest metropolitan economy in 2014, following Tokyo, New York City and Los Angeles. Seoul was rated Asia's most livable city with the second highest quality of life globally by Arcadis in 2015, with a GDP per capita (PPP) of around $40,000. With major technology hubs centered in Gangnam and Digital Media City, the Seoul Capital Area is home to the headquarters of 15 ''Fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doctor Prisoner
''Doctor Prisoner'' () is a 2019 South Korean television series starring Namkoong Min, Kwon Nara, Choi Won-young and Kim Byung-chul. It aired on KBS2's Wednesdays and Thursdays at 22:00 ( KST) from March 20 to May 15, 2019. Synopsis A skilled doctor is forced to quit working at a hospital after being accused of medical malpractice. He starts working in a prison with the goal of acquiring enough connections to take his revenge. Cast Main * Namkoong Min as Na Yi-je :A talented doctor who always cares about his patients but has to quit the hospital after an incident happens. * Kwon Nara as Han So-geum :A psychiatrist who works at Taegang Hospital and volunteers in prison. * Kim Byung-chul as Seon Min-sik :A medical director who works at the prison. * Choi Won-young as Lee Jae-joon : Primary successor to major conglomerate Taegang Group. Supporting Taegang Group's family * Jin Hee-kyung as Mo Yi-ra : A former actress who becomes the second wife of Lee Duk-sung. * Lee Da-in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Elephant Song
''The Elephant Song'' is a Canadian stage play by Nicolas Billon, first presented in 2002 and since performed across Canada and around the world. There is also a film adaptation of the play, released in 2014. History ''The Elephant Song'', by Canadian playwright Nicolas Billon,"TIFF 2014 to screen Xavier Dolan and Denys Arcand films" , August 6, 2014. was first presented with a reading at Infinitheatre, . ''The Elephant Song'' was played on stage in Montreal multiple times, as well as in [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red (play)
''Red'' is a play by American writer John Logan about artist Mark Rothko first produced by the Donmar Warehouse, London, on December 8, 2009. The original production was directed by Michael Grandage and performed by Alfred Molina as Rothko and Eddie Redmayne as his fictional assistant Ken."''Red'' listing" , retrieved May 25, 2010 The production, with its two leads, transferred to at the for a limited e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Pride (play)
''The Pride'' is a British drama by Alexi Kaye Campbell that counterpoints two parallel love stories. Productions In 2008 ''The Pride'' premiered at the Royal Court Theatre to critical acclaim, winning the ''Laurence Olivier Award'' under the direction of Jamie Lloyd and starring Bertie Carvel, JJ Feild and Lyndsey Marshal. It made its US premiere Off-broadway in the MCC Theater production at the Lucille Lortel Theatre in February 2010 starring Hugh Dancy, Andrea Riseborough and Ben Whishaw and directed by Joe Mantello. The play was nominated for the 2010 Drama League Award, Outstanding Production of a Play and 2010 Outer Critics Circle Award, Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play. In 2011, the play made its Japanese premiere in Theatre Project Tokyo production at d-soko theatre in Tokyo, starring Takamasa Suga, Erika Mabuchi, Makiya Yamaguchi and Ayumi Tanida, directed by Eriko Ogaw In 2012 ''The Pride'' made its Australian debut at Red Stitch Actors Theatre, starring Lyall Brooks ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cock (play)
''Cock'' is a 2009 play by Mike Bartlett. It premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in London in November 2009 and centres around John, a gay man who feels torn after meeting and falling in love with a woman. Plot In "Chapter 1," John tells his boyfriend "M" that he wants to take a break from their 7-year relationship because they argue frequently and are too different, and John moves out of their apartment. Some time later, John returns to M asking to get back together. He also reveals that he has had sex twice with a woman, despite identifying as gay his entire life and never being attracted to women before. M feels betrayed by John's infidelity and lack of commitment to him. "Chapter 2" reveals how John met a woman, "W", on his daily commute. He is surprised to find himself developing a physical attraction to her and decides to have sex with a woman for the first time. W teaches him about vaginal sex and they both enjoy the experience. However, John then avoids W, during which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The History Boys
''The History Boys'' is a play by British playwright Alan Bennett. The play premiered at the Royal National Theatre in London on 18 May 2004. Its Broadway debut was on 23 April 2006 at the Broadhurst Theatre where 185 performances were staged before it closed on 1 October 2006. The play won multiple awards, including the 2005 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play and the 2006 Tony Award for Best Play. Plot The play opens in Cutlers' Grammar School, Sheffield, a fictional boys' grammar school in the north of England. Set in the mid-late 1980s, the play follows a group of history pupils preparing for the Oxford and Cambridge entrance examinations under the guidance of three teachers (Hector, Irwin, and Lintott) with contrasting styles. Hector, an eccentric teacher, delights in knowledge for its own sake but his ambitious headmaster wants the school to move up the academic league table and hires Irwin, a supply teacher, to introduce a rather more cynical and ruthless style of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Almost, Maine
''Almost, Maine'' is a play by John Cariani, comprising nine short plays that explore love and loss in a remote, mythical almost-town called Almost, Maine. It premiered at the Portland Stage Company in Portland, Maine in 2004, where it broke box office records and garnered critical acclaim. The play was published by Dramatists Play Service in 2007 and has since become one of the most popular plays in the United States with nearly 100 professional productions and over 5000 community, university, and high school productions to date. It has become one of the most frequently produced plays in North American high schools. It has also received over twenty international productions and has been translated into over a dozen languages. History ''Almost, Maine'' was developed at the Cape Cod Theatre Project in 2002. It premiered at Portland Stage Company (in Portland, Maine) in 2004. ''Almost, Maine'' opened Off-Broadway at the Daryl Roth Theatre on 12 January 2006 and close ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prince Hamlet
A prince is a male ruler (ranked below a king, grand prince, and grand duke) or a male member of a monarch's or former monarch's family. ''Prince'' is also a title of nobility (often highest), often hereditary, in some European states. The female equivalent is a princess. The English word derives, via the French word ''prince'', from the Latin noun , from (first) and (head), meaning "the first, foremost, the chief, most distinguished, noble ruler, prince". Historical background The Latin word (older Latin *prīsmo-kaps, literally "the one who takes the first lace/position), became the usual title of the informal leader of the Roman senate some centuries before the transition to empire, the ''princeps senatus''. Emperor Augustus established the formal position of monarch on the basis of principate, not dominion. He also tasked his grandsons as summer rulers of the city when most of the government were on holiday in the country or attending religious rituals, and, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamlet
''The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark'', often shortened to ''Hamlet'' (), is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare's longest play, with 29,551 words. Set in Denmark, the play depicts Prince Hamlet and his attempts to exact revenge against his uncle, Claudius, who has murdered Hamlet's father in order to seize his throne and marry Hamlet's mother. ''Hamlet'' is considered among the "most powerful and influential tragedies in the English language", with a story capable of "seemingly endless retelling and adaptation by others". There are many works that have been pointed to as possible sources for Shakespeare's play—from ancient Greek tragedies to Elizabethan plays. The editors of the Arden Shakespeare question the idea of "source hunting", pointing out that it presupposes that authors always require ideas from other works for their own, and suggests that no author can have an original idea or be an originator. When ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
True West (play)
''True West'' is a play by American playwright Sam Shepard. Some critics consider it the third of a Family Trilogy that includes ''Curse of the Starving Class'' (1976) and ''Buried Child'' (1979).Simard, Rodney. “American Gothic: Sam Shepard's Family Trilogy.” ''Theatre Annual'' 41 (1986): 21–36. Others consider it part of a quintet that includes '' Fool for Love'' (1983) and ''A Lie of the Mind'' (1985).Roudané, Matthew (2002). ''The Cambridge Companion to Sam Shepard.'' Cambridge University Press, ''True West'' was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1983. Characters * Austin, a Hollywood screenwriter who is well educated and has a wife and children * Lee, a drifter and a thief, and Austin's older brother. * Mom, Austin and Lee's mother * Saul Kimmer, a Hollywood producer Plot Act One ''True West'' is about the sibling rivalry between two estranged brothers who have reconnected. The play begins with brothers Austin and Lee sitting in their mother's house ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cats On The Roof
''Cats on the Roof'' () is a 2003 South Korean television series starring Kim Rae-won, Jeong Da-bin, Choi Jung-yoon and Lee Hyun-woo. It aired on MBC from June 2 to July 22, 2003 on Mondays and Tuesdays at 21:55 for 16 episodes. A comedy with light touches of drama about friendship, love and cohabitation, the series is loosely based on an internet novel written by Kim Yu-ri. It was a hit, receiving an average viewership rating of 26.3% and a peak rating of 37.3%. Overview Kyung-min, a law student, is in desperate straits, so he decides to take it upon himself to help Hye-ryun's poor friend, Jung-eun. This is the beginning of an extremely volatile friendship that somehow ends with the two of them living together under one roof, or to be more specific, living in a room on top of the roof of an old building. This romantic setting provides the backdrop for this unlikely love story. Kyung-min's bratty ways clashes with Jung-eun's simple living, as he steadily takes advantage of h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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