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Enter Your Search for your Favorite Musical, Play or Star Below
Joanna Griffin Education. college, Drama UK Accredited course 2011, 2 yr. Acting LAMDA. college, 2008, BA English Literature and Drama University of Bristol Theatre: includes Earlsfield at the Centre of the World (Tara Arts), A Hundred Million Hits (Arcola), Touched (Tricycle) The Same Deep Water As Me (2013) by Nick Payne at Donmar Warehouse London. […]
Golden Boy Golden Boy is a drama by Clifford Odets. The play was initially produced on Broadway by The Group Theatre in 1937. Odets’ biggest hit was made into a 1939 film of the same name, starring William Holden in his breakthrough role, and also served as the basis for a 1964 musical with […]
The Elephant Man by Bernard Pomerance The Elephant Man is a 1977 play by Bernard Pomerance. The production’s Broadway debut in 1979 was produced by Richmond Crinkley and Nelle Nugent, and directed by Jack Hofsiss. The play closed in 1981 after eight previews and 916 regular performances. Prior to its Broadway production, the play […]
Casa Valentina by Harvey Fierstein Casa Valentina is a play about straight men who congregate in the Catskills to dress and act like women. “Back in 1962, most men went to the Catskill Mountains to escape the summer heat, but others took the two-hour drive to escape something else entirely: being men,” read press notes […]
The Testament of Mary by Colm Tóibín The Testament of Mary is a short novel by Irish writer Colm Tóibín. The book was published on 13 November 2012 by Scribner’s.[1]. In The Testament of Mary, the mother of Jesus tells her story of her son’s Crucifixion. Testament is Mary’s first-person account of her son […]
Memorabilia Available Suddenly at Home by Francis Durbridge A man schemes to murder his wealthy wife for the love of another woman the sister, an actress friend or the au pair? Victim and victimized become intertwined in this startling drama. The Play had its premiere at The Theatre Royal, Windsor UK June 1991, its […]
Memorabilia Available The Chalk Garden The Chalk Garden is a play by Enid Bagnold that premiered on Broadway in 1955. The play tells the story of Mrs. St Maugham and her granddaughter Laurel, a disturbed child under the care of Miss Madrigal, a governess. The Chalk Garden is a play by Enid […]
Memorabilia Available Waiting for Godot By Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot (pronounced /ˈɡɒdoʊ/, GAH-doh) is an absurdist play by Samuel Beckett, in which two characters, Vladimir and Estragon, wait for someone named Godot. Godot’s absence, as well as numerous other aspects of the play, have led to many different interpretations since the play’s premiere. […]
Roza Roza is a 1987 musical based on the novel The Life Before Us by Romain Gary with music by Gilbert Bécaud and lyrics and book by Julian More. Background Bécaud had seen “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” and was inspired to work with Harold Prince, who directed the […]
Merrily We Roll Along Merrily We Roll Along is a musical with a book by George Furth and lyrics and music by Stephen Sondheim. It is based on the 1934 play of the same name by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. Furth and Sondheim retained the basic structure and overall theme of the […]
Grind Grind is a musical with a book by Fay Kanin, music by Larry Grossman, and lyrics by Ellen Fitzhugh. Grind is a portrait of a largely African-American burlesque house in Chicago in the Thirties. The reviews were mixed at best. In his New York Times review, Frank Rich wrote: “…the show has become […]
Fiorello! Fiorello! is a musical about New York City mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia, a reform Republican who took on the Tammany Hall political machine. The book is by Jerome Weidman and George Abbott, drawn substantially from the 1955 volume Life With Fiorello by Ernest Cuneo, with lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and music by Jerry […]
Can Can Can-Can is a musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter, and a book by Abe Burrows. The story concerns the showgirls of the Montmartre dance halls during the 1890s. The original Broadway production ran for over two years beginning in 1953, and the 1954 West End production was also a success. […]
Applause Applause is a musical with a book by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, lyrics by Lee Adams, and music by Charles Strouse. The musical is based on the 1950 film All About Eve and the short story on which the movie is based, Mary Orr’s “The Wisdom of Eve”. The story centers […]
Made in Dagenham the Musical Made in Dagenham is a musical with music by David Arnold, lyrics by Richard Thomas, and a book by Richard Bean. Based on the 2010 film of the same name, which in turn was based on the real events of the Ford sewing machinists strike of 1968,[1] the musical […]
Memorabilia Available Nice Work If You Can Get It Nice Work If You Can Get It is a musical with a score by George and Ira Gershwin, a book written by Joe DiPietro, and based on material by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse.[1] Nice Work premiered on Broadway in April 2012. An original […]