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The Irish… And How They Got That Way
''The Irish… and How They Got That Way'' is an American Off-Broadway musical first performed in 1997 at the Irish Repertory Theatre. Based on a book by Frank McCourt, the play featured an eclectic mix of Irish music ranging from the traditional "Danny Boy" to U2's "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For." Development Recognizing a 1990s interval of cultural Hibernophilia, Frank McCourt wrote ''The Irish… and How They Got That Way'', which premiered in 1997 at the Irish Repertory Theatre, where McCourt had previously acted. The play combines primary documents, such as news, letters, photos, paintings, and journals, either in spoken words or in projections upon the backdrops to illustrate the Irish-American struggle over the prior 150 years. Press notes described it as an "irreverent but affectionate history of the Irish in America that mingles laughter and sentiment in a tapestry of classical songs and stories. The production encapsulates the most tumultuous times of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank McCourt
Francis McCourt (August 19, 1930July 19, 2009) was an Irish-American teacher and writer. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his book '' Angela's Ashes'', a tragicomic memoir of the misery and squalor of his childhood. Early life and education Frank McCourt was born in New York City's Brooklyn borough, on August 19, 1930, the eldest child of Irish Catholic immigrants Malachy Gerald McCourt, Sr. (October 11, 1899 January 11, 1985), of Toome, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, who was aligned with the IRA during the Irish War of Independence, and Angela Sheehan (January 1, 1908December 27, 1981) from Limerick. Frank McCourt lived in New York with his parents and four younger siblings: Malachy Jr. (1931–2024); twins Oliver and Eugene, born in 1932; and a younger sister, Margaret, who died just 21 days after birth, on March 5, 1934. In fall of 1934 in the midst of the Great Depression, the family moved back to Ireland. Frank was 4 years old. His brother Malachy was 3 and the twins were 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Somerville Theatre
The Somerville Theatre is an independent movie theater and concert venue in the Davis Square neighborhood of Somerville, Massachusetts, United States. Over one hundred years old, the Somerville Theatre started off as a vaudeville house and movie theater. The theater has since transitioned and now operates as a live music venue and first-run movie theater. As a music venue, the theater has played host to many historic concerts, including the first of the two Last Dispatch concerts, two shows by Bruce Springsteen in 2003, and a performance by U2 in 2009. Recent live performances have included Ryan Adams & the Cardinals, Cursive, Norah Jones, The Jonas Brothers, Joan Baez, and the John Butler Trio. The building also hosts the Crystal Ballroom. Early years The Somerville Theater is part of the Hobbs Building which was built in 1914 by Joseph Hobbs and designed by the firm of Funk & Wilcox of Boston. Designed for stage shows, vaudeville, opera, and motion pictures, the theat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Essex, Connecticut
Essex is a town in Middlesex County, Connecticut, United States. The town is part of the Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region. The population was 6,733 at the 2020 census. It is made up of three villages: Essex Village, Centerbrook, and Ivoryton. History The Great Attack Essex is one of the few American towns to have ever been attacked by a foreign power; this occurred on April 8, 1814, and the economic losses were among the largest sustained by the United States during the War of 1812. Twenty-eight vessels, with a total value estimated to be close to $200,000 (at a time when a very large two story home in Essex, then known as Potapoug Point, would have been worth no more than $1,000), were destroyed by the British. One historian has called it the "Pearl Harbor" of that war. On that date, approximately 136 British marines and sailors under the command of Richard Coote (or Coot"Essex", Mary Murphy, the Hartford Courant, April 25, 2007, Middlesex County adv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivoryton Playhouse
Comstock-Cheney Hall, also known as Ivoryton Playhouse, is a theater building located in the village of Ivoryton in the town of Essex, Connecticut, US. It is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The theatre is believed to be the first continuously operating summer theatre in the United States. Construction Construction began in 1910 and was completed 1911 as a recreation hall for the Comstock-Cheney factory. The building includes Classical Revival architecture. When listed the property included three contributing buildings on an area of . Theatre The theatre is believed to be the first self-supporting summer theatre in the United States. and Although there were older theatres in Dennis, MA and Skowhegan, ME, they were endowed by foundations of wealthy families and not self-supporting. The Westport Country Playhouse was established one year after the Ivoryton Playhouse. The Playhouse is on the National Register of Historic Places, as is indicated on the fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chelsea, Manhattan
Chelsea is a neighborhood on the West Side (Manhattan), West Side of the Boroughs of New York City, borough of Manhattan in New York City. The area's boundaries are roughly 14th Street (Manhattan), 14th Street to the south, the Hudson River and West Street (Manhattan), West Street to the west, and Sixth Avenue to the east, with its northern boundary variously described as near the list of numbered streets in Manhattan, upper 20sRegier, Hilda. "Chelsea (i)" in , pp.234–235 or 34th Street (Manhattan), 34th Street, the next major crosstown street to the north.Navarro, Mireya"In Chelsea, a Great Wealth Divide", ''The New York Times'', October 23, 2015. Accessed October 23, 2015. "Today's Chelsea, the swath west of Sixth Avenue between 14th and 34th Streets, could be the poster neighborhood for what Mayor Bill de Blasio calls the tale of two cities." To the northwest of Chelsea is the neighborhood of Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, Hell's Kitchen, as well as Hudson Yards, Manhattan, Hud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shirley Herz
Shirley Herz (December 30, 1925 – August 11, 2013) was an American Broadway theatre production press representative. Herz had publicized Broadway, Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway productions, ballet companies, circuses, worlds fairs, films and television programs, beginning in 1954, aged 28, when she was the press assistant for the Truman Capote and Harold Arlen musical, '' House of Flowers''.. She worked with many notables, including Tallulah Bankhead, Rosalind Russell, Eva Le Gallienne, Jerry Herman, and Julie Harris, as well as with many off-Broadway (such as Manhattan Theatre Club) and off-off-Broadway companies. The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing presented Herz with a special Tony Award for Excellence in Theatre at the 63rd Tony Awards ceremony on June 7, 2009. Death Herz suffered a stroke on July 18, 2013 and died on August 11, aged 87. Her sole immediate survivor is her widower, Herbert Boley, to whom she was married from 1948 until her death. Prod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Gottlieb (director)
Michael Bernard Gottlieb (April 12, 1945 – May 23, 2014) was an American film director and screenwriter. He is best known for directing the films ''Mannequin'' (1987) and '' A Kid in King Arthur's Court'' (1995). Following the release of ''A Kid in King Arthur's Court'', Gottlieb transitioned into video game industry, working as a producer for the remainder of his entertainment career. On May 23, 2014, Gottlieb was killed in a motorcycle accident on the Angeles Crest Highway in La Cañada Flintridge, California. He was 69 years old. At the time of Gottlieb's death he was a professor of film at the ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, California, teaching screenwriting in both the graduate and undergraduate departments. Filmography *''Mannequin'' (1987) – director, writer *'' The Shrimp on the Barbie'' (1990) – director (under the pseudonym Alan Smithee) *'' Mannequin Two: On the Move'' (1991) – writer *'' Mr. Nanny'' (1993) – director, writer *'' A Kid in King Ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ciarán Sheehan (actor)
Ciarán Sheehan (born ) is an Irish-born singer and actor who has appeared in several off-Broadway and Broadway theatre productions. Born in Dublin, he made his Broadway debut in ''Les Misérables'', playing Babet and understudying Marius Pontmercy. In 1993, he joined the cast of ''The Phantom of the Opera'', where he played Raoul, Vicomte de Chagny. While he left the Broadway cast in 1995, he played the title character in a Canadian production of the musical between 1995 and 1996. He has worked with the Irish Repertory Theatre as an actor appearing in Frank McCourt's '' The Irish… and How They Got That Way'', '' The Hostage'', ''Camelot'', and ''Finian's Rainbow''. His work as Billy in a Boston-based production of ''Carousel A carousel or carrousel (mainly North American English), merry-go-round (International English), or galloper (British English) is a type of amusement ride consisting of a rotating circular platform with seats for riders. The seats are tradit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donna Kane
Donna Kane is an American theater actress. Born in Beacon, NY, she grew up on Long Island and in Wayne, New Jersey, where she won Miss Teenage New Jersey in 1976, and was first runner-up for America's Junior Miss 1980. She was the recipient of the 1986 Theatre World Award for her off-Broadway portrayal of Ruby in '' Dames at Sea''. Kane had her Broadway debut in 1989 in ''Meet Me in St. Louis'', playing the role of Esther. She has won acclaim for her performances in the 1995 U.S. tour of ''Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat'' with Donny Osmond, ''Les Misérables'' on Broadway (January 12 - August 14, 1993), and as Maria in ''West Side Story'' in Vienna and Munich (1995). Kane received her B.A. in political science from Mount Holyoke College Mount Holyoke College is a Private college, private Women's colleges in the United States, women's Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in South Hadley, Massachusetts, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Green (actor)
Bob Green or Greene may refer to: * Bob Green (American football) (born 1950), American football coach * Bob Green (footballer) (1911–1949), Australian rules footballer * Bob Green (naturalist) (1925–2013), Australian naturalist and museum curator * Bob Green (tennis) (born 1960), American tennis player * Bob Greene (born 1947), American journalist and author * Bob Greene (fitness) (born 1958), American exercise physiologist * Bob Greene (Makah) (1918–2010), American Makah elder See also * Bobby Green King Green (born Bobby Ray Green; September 9, 1986) is an American professional mixed martial artist. He currently competes in the Lightweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). A professional since 2008, Green is the former ..., American professional mixed martial artist * Robert Green (other) * Robert Greene (other) {{hndis, Green, Bob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terry Donnelly
Terry Donnelly is a Canadian journalist working for CBC Radio One's British Columbia newsroom in Vancouver. Donnelly first worked for the CBC in 1976, before graduating from the British Columbia Institute of Technology in 1977. He has also filled in as a news reader and show host. He has been recognized for his work over his career, winning awards from the BC region of Radio and Television News Directors Association in 1991 and 2007. Donnelly also won the Best Radio Reporting honour at the 1992 Jack Webster Awards Jack Webster Awards are a series of yearly industry awards presented by the Jack Webster Foundation for outstanding achievement in journalism in the Canadian province of British Columbia. The awards were established in 1986 by the foundation and .... In 2006, Donnelly was named "Mentor of the Year" at CBC Vancouver. References Canadian radio reporters and correspondents Living people British Columbia Institute of Technology alumni Year of birth missing (l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
