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Sorkin, a playwright and a writer for film and television, created the hit series The West Wing
...nature of history, adolescent angst, and pedophilia—the themes of the play “The History Boys” by English playwright Alan Bennett—will always attract varying interpretations. “One of the biggest things that frustrates me is that people summarize it as a humorous schoolboy comedy,” says Mia P. Walker ’10, director of the show’s latest incarnation opening tonight at the Loeb Ex. Walker, who is also a Crimson Arts writer, is seeking to draw out the play’s more...
...stars have projects built around them; Winslet seeks out movies in which she can serve a director or story by becoming an essential support beam in the film's overall architecture. Movie stars usually want more - more words, more screen time, more veto power; she wants less. When the playwright and screenwriter Doug Wright worked with her on Quills in 2000, he recalls, Winslet told him "with great tact, 'Doug, I'd never say a word against your writing, but this line? This one here? ... I don't have to say it. I can do it with my eyes...
Brief Synopsis of Proposal: As a freshman at Harvard College with an intense interest in the thespian arts, I plan to do in-depth and ground-breaking research on an obscure regional playwright, William Shakespeare. Unbeknownst to the rest of Western society, he has turned out what may be the best plays in Greater Stratford-upon-Avon, if not up to and including all its suburbs...
...among the most progressive in the world - with provisions for marriage and adoption rights for same-sex couples - Sigurardóttir maintains a decidedly low public profile with her civil partner of six years Jónína Leósdóttir, a noted journalist and playwright. "Being gay is not an issue in Iceland," explains Frosti Jónsson, chairman of Iceland's gay-and-lesbian association. "There are so many openly gay prominent figures in both the public and private sector here that it doesn't affect who we select for our highest offices...