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Ralph Richardson

| September 4, 2014

Ralph Richardson   Sir Ralph David Richardson (19 December 1902 – 10 October 1983) was an English actor who, along with his contemporaries John Gielgud and Laurence Olivier, dominated the British stage of the mid-20th century. He worked in films throughout most of his career, and played more than sixty cinema roles. From an artistic but […]

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Suddenly, Last Summer

| September 3, 2014

Suddenly, Last Summer   Suddenly, Last Summer is a one-act play by Tennessee Williams. It opened off Broadway on January 7, 1958, as part of a double bill with another of Williams’s one-acts, Something Unspoken. The presentation of the two plays was given the overall title Garden District, but Suddenly, Last Summer is now more […]

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Gower Champion

| June 15, 2014

Memorabilia Available Gower Champion   Gower Carlyle Champion (June 22, 1919 – August 25, 1980) was an American actor, theatre director, choreographer, and dancer. Throughout the 1950s, they performed on a number of television variety shows, and in 1957 they starred in their own short-lived CBS sitcom, The Marge and Gower Champion Show, which was […]

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My Night with Reg

| May 31, 2014

My Night with Reg by Kevin Elyot My Night with Reg is a play by British playwright Kevin Elyot which was produced in 1994 by the Royal Court Theatre, London, directed by Roger Michell. The production later transferred to the West End Entirely set among London’s gay community in the mid-1980s against the background of […]

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Pam MacKinnon

| January 10, 2014

Pam MacKinnon Theatre Director Pam MacKinnon (born c. 1968 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American theatre director. She has directed for the stage Off-Broadway, on Broadway and in regional theatre. She won the Obie Award for Directing and received a Tony Award nomination, Best Director, for her work on Clybourne Park. In 2013 she received […]

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The Octette Bridge Club

| November 24, 2013

  The Octette Bridge Club By P J Barry The Octette Bridge Club is a play by P.J. Barry. Set in Providence, Rhode Island, it focuses on eight sisters of Irish descent who meet on alternate Friday evenings to play bridge and gossip. The first act, which opens with the women posing for a photograph […]

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The All-American Sport of BiPartisan Bashing

| August 16, 2013

Memorabilia Available   Will Durst, The All-American Sport of BiPartisan Bashing by Will Durst     Satirist Will Durst certainly has easy targets-politicians-and he takes full advantage, making a mockery of the American political landscape in this laugh-filled 90-minute monologue. Most of his humor is aimed at the Bush camp, but that’s understandable considering what’s […]

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Whose Life is it Anyway ?

| August 16, 2013

Memorabilia Available   Whose Life is it Anyway ? by Brian Clark Whose Life Is It Anyway? is a play by Brian Clark adapted from his 1972 television play of the same title. The play premiered at the Mermaid Theatre in London’s West End in 1978 starring Tom Conti as Ken. Set in a hospital […]

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Tru

| August 15, 2013

Memorabilia Available   Tru by Jay Presson Allen Tru is a play by Jay Presson Allen. Adapted from the words and works of Truman Capote, it is set in the writer’s New York City apartment at 870 United Nations Plaza the week before Christmas 1975. An excerpt from Capote’s infamous unfinished roman a clef, Answered […]

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The Merchant of Venice

| August 5, 2013

Memorabilia Available   The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare   The Merchant of Venice is a tragic comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1596 and 1598. Though classified as a comedy in the First Folio and sharing certain aspects with Shakespeare’s other romantic comedies, the play is perhaps most remembered […]

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