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The Nightingale Casting Controversy
In 2012, the La Jolla Playhouse in California generated nationwide controversy for the casting of a musical adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's 1843 story " The Nightingale", set in ancient China. The play was part of the La Jolla Playhouse's " Page to Stage" program, a workshop series in which unfinished new works are tested and altered during the show's run. Two Asian-American actors were cast, and the remainder of the cast were African-American and Caucasian. The Asian American Theatre Community expressed their indignation on the lack of Asian-American actors cast. The casting controversy generated significant response from the Asian American theater and artistic community, particularly because similar controversies have occurred in the past, as when Jonathan Pryce was cast to play the Asian lead in the 1989 musical, ''Miss Saigon''. During a public forum to address the debate, the idea for which having been generated by a letter of protest from the Asian American Performer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Jolla Playhouse
La Jolla Playhouse is a not-for-profit, professional theatre on the campus of the University of California, San Diego. History La Jolla Playhouse was founded in 1947 by Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, and Mel Ferrer. In 1983, it was revived under the leadership of Des McAnuff. Since then, the Playhouse's repertoire has included eighty-four world premieres, thirty-two West Coast premieres, and eight American premieres, and has won more than three hundred honors, including the 1993 Tony Award as America's Outstanding Regional Theatre. It is supported, in part, by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the California Arts Council, the City of San Diego, and the County of San Diego. It was announced on April 10, 2007, that Christopher Ashley would succeed McAnuff as artistic director. Among the productions that originated at the Playhouse before finding success on Broadway are ''The Who's Tommy'', Matthew Broderick's revival of ''How to Succeed in Business Without Really Try ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wayne Wilcox
Wayne Alan Wilcox (born December 11, 1978) is an American actor and singer who is best known for his role of Marty on the TV show ''Gilmore Girls'' and his appearance in the film version of the musical ''Rent'' as Gordon, a member of Angel and Tom's AIDS support group. He played the character and sang vocals for the songs ''Will I'' and ''Life Support'' on disc I of the soundtrack for the film. Personal life Wayne is a graduate of Boston University. Career He played recurring character Marty on ten episodes of ''Gilmore Girls'' over the fourth, fifth, and seventh seasons after being discovered by ''Gilmore Girls'' co-creators Amy Sherman-Palladino and Dan Palladino while working as a waiter at Mercer Kitchen in SoHo. Wilcox has also appeared in the Goodman Theater production of Elizabeth Spencer's novella ''The Light in the Piazza'' as Fabrizio alongside Celia Keenan-Bolger as Clara, and in the off-Broadway production of ''The Great American Trailer Park Musical'' in 2005 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2012 Controversies In The United States
1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length 1. In conventions of sign where zero is considered neither positive nor negative, 1 is the first and smallest positive integer. It is also sometimes considered the first of the infinite sequence of natural numbers, followed by 2, although by other definitions 1 is the second natural number, following 0. The fundamental mathematical property of 1 is to be a multiplicative identity, meaning that any number multiplied by 1 equals the same number. Most if not all properties of 1 can be deduced from this. In advanced mathematics, a multiplicative identity is often denoted 1, even if it is not a number. 1 is by convention not considered a prime number; this was not universally accepted until the mid-20th century. Additionally, 1 is the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kimiko Glenn
Kimiko Elizabeth Glenn (June 27, 1989) is an American actress and Broadway performer known for portraying Brook Soso in the Netflix series ''Orange Is the New Black'', for which she received three ensemble Screen Actors Guild Awards. She also starred as Dawn Pinkett in the Broadway musical ''Waitress'' and has provided the voices of Ezor in '' Voltron: Legendary Defender'', Lena Sabrewing in ''DuckTales'', Peni Parker in '' Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse'', Stefani Stilton in ''BoJack Horseman'', Bridgette Hashima in ''Close Enough'', Horse in ''Centaurworld'', Izzy Moonbow in '' My Little Pony: A New Generation'' and Paperstar in ''Carmen Sandiego (TV series)''. Early life and education Glenn was born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona, with her sister, Amanda. Her mother, Sumiko, is Japanese, and her father, Mark, is of Scottish, Irish, and German descent. Glenn began acting at the Valley Youth Theatre in Phoenix and several other local theaters when she was in fifth grade. She ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlayne Woodard
Charlaine "Charlayne" Woodard (born December 29, 1953) is an American playwright and actress. She is a two-time Obie Award winner as well as a Tony Award and Drama Desk nominee. She was a series regular on the hit FX TV series Pose. She played the title role in the Showtime movieRun For The Dream, The Gail Devers’ Story Starring as Cindy in the ABC Movie Of The Week, Woodard was the 1st black Cinderella portrayed on TV or film. Currently, she’s in Marvel Studios' upcoming limited TV series Secret Invasion which is scheduled to premiere in early 2023. Career Woodard began her professional career in 1976 performing in the road company of Don’t Bother Me I Can’t Cope, written by Mickey Grant and directed by Vinette Carroll, the 1st black female director on Broadway. In 1977, she made her Broadway debut in the Revival of Hair, directed by Tom O’Horgan; played a supporting role in the movie version of Hair, directed by Milos Forman; starred as Cindy in the NBC Movie Of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bobby Steggert
Bobby Steggert (born March 2, 1981) is an American therapist and former actor of theatre, television and film. Early life and education He was born in Frederick, Maryland. Steggart attended Frederick High School, and graduated in 1999 as valedictorian of his class. Steggert graduated from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in New York City, and studied a yearlong foundation course at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, England. Career Steggert joined the cast of the television soap opera '' All My Children'', appearing as Sam Grey from March 2005 until his final appearance on December 20, 2005. After appearing in, among other Broadway and Off-Broadway productions, '' "Master Harold"...and the Boys'', '' A Christmas Carol'', The New Group's ''The Music Teacher'' and '' columbinus'' at the New York Theatre Workshop, Steggert starred as Jimmy Curry in the 2007 Broadway revival of the musical ''110 in the Shade'', a role which garnered him an Outer Criti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moisés Kaufman
Moisés Kaufman (born November 21, 1963) is a Venezuelan theater director, filmmaker, playwright, founder of Tectonic Theater Project, based in New York City, and co-founder of Miami New Drama at the Colony Theatre. He was awarded the 2016 National Medal of Arts by President Barack Obama. He is best known for creating ''The Laramie Project'' (2000) with other members of Tectonic Theater Project. He has directed extensively on Broadway and Internationally, and is the author of numerous plays, including '' Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde'' and '' 33 Variations''. Born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela, he moved as a young man to New York City in 1987. Biography Kaufman is of Romanian-Jewish and Ukrainian-Jewish descent, and was born in Caracas, Venezuela. He is an alumnus of Venezuela's Universidad Metropolitana, where he began to study theatre. After immigrating to the United States, he went to college in New York and graduated from NYU. In 2005 he described himself ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Powerhouse Theater
The Powerhouse Theater (officially the Hallie Flanagan Davis Powerhouse Theater) is a theater building on the campus of Vassar College in the town of Poughkeepsie, New York, US. Originally built as a power station in 1912, it was renovated and repurposed as a theater in 1973. Each summer it hosts student productions as well as professional workshops and readings as part of the Vassar–New York Stage and Film Powerhouse Theater program. History Vassar College, the first degree-granting institution of higher education for women in the United States, was founded in 1861 in the town of Poughkeepsie, New York. The campus transitioned to electrical lights from gas lighting in 1912, which necessitated the construction of a power station. The building was designed by Lord & Co. and constructed adjacent to the school's Main Building, where it ran until 1954. Thereafter, the college began buying its power from a nearby utility company. The old power house was retrofitted as the Powerhouse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duncan Sheik
Duncan Sheik (born November 18, 1969) is an American singer-songwriter and composer. Sheik is known for his 1996 debut single " Barely Breathing", which earned him a Grammy Award nomination for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance. He has composed music for motion pictures and Broadway musicals, winning the 2006 Tony Awards for Best Original Score and Best Orchestrations for his work on the musical '' Spring Awakening''. Early life Sheik is a native of Montclair, New Jersey. Following his parents' divorce, he split time between his father's house in New Jersey and his mother's home in South Carolina. He is the half-brother of Broadway actress Kacie Sheik. Sheik's Juilliard-trained grandmother introduced him to the piano, and he later took up the electric guitar. By age 12, he was playing guitar with high school students in a cover band. After graduating from Phillips Academy, Andover in 1988, Sheik studied semiotics at Brown University; while at Brown, he played guitar in a band wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
September 11 Attacks
The September 11 attacks, commonly known as 9/11, were four coordinated suicide terrorist attacks carried out by al-Qaeda against the United States on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. That morning, nineteen terrorists hijacked four commercial airliners scheduled to travel from the Northeastern United States to California. The hijackers crashed the first two planes into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, and the third plane into the Pentagon (the headquarters of the United States military) in Arlington County, Virginia. The fourth plane was intended to hit a federal government building in Washington, D.C., but crashed in a field following a passenger revolt. The attacks killed nearly 3,000 people and instigated the war on terror. The first impact was that of American Airlines Flight 11. It was crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center complex in Lower Manhattan at 8:46 a.m. Seventeen minutes later, at 9:03, the World Trade Center’s S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare ( 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the " Bard of Avon" (or simply "the Bard"). His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, three long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. He remains arguably the most influential writer in the English language, and his works continue to be studied and reinterpreted. Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Sometime between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Lapine
James Elliot Lapine (born January 10, 1949) is an American stage director, playwright, screenwriter, and librettist. He has won the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical three times, for ''Into the Woods'', ''Falsettos'', and '' Passion''. He has frequently collaborated with Stephen Sondheim and William Finn. Early life Lapine was born in Mansfield, Ohio, the son of Lillian (Feld) and David Sanford Lapine. He graduated from Franklin and Marshall College in 1971. Though he did not actively pursue theatre in childhood, Lapine did play Jack in an elementary school production of Jack and the Beanstalk. Career Lapine did graduate study in photography and graphic design at the California Institute of the Arts, where he received an MFA in 1973."Stars Over Broadway, James Lapine" pbs.com, accessed March 10, 2011 He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
