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...playwright spoke for just over an hour, answering questions first from the event’s host, Gideon Lester of the ART, and then from the audience. The questions ranged from politics (one of Kushner’s latest theatrical inventions is a conversation with Laura Bush) to books (Kant, Benjamin and Dostoyevsky are indispensable to him) to playwriting...
...tempting to speculate, especially since writer-director Rebecca Miller is so quick to deflect the subject, that Jack could embody some aspect of her father Arthur. Tempting but fruitless, since the real kinship is with the work of another playwright, dead nearly 500 years. Jack is a blend of Prospero, lord of his fantasy island, and Lear, the mad king with a loving daughter. Rose is his Miranda, his Cordelia...
...couple in question, Daniel Day-Lewis and Rebecca Miller, have pretty good ancestry for revolutionaries. He's the son of British Poet Laureate Cecil Day-Lewis and actress Jill Balcon. She's the daughter of playwright Arthur Miller and photographer Inge Morath. They met in 1996 at an early screening of The Crucible, a film of her father's play. By that time Day-Lewis, already an Oscar-winning actor (for My Left Foot), had been offered, and had turned down, a role in one of Rebecca Miller's movies. Their new film, The Ballad of Jack and Rose...
...movie, all of which Brooks created. "It's very important for the world to see The Producers in its glory, with MATTHEW [BRODERICK, left] and NATHAN [LANE, right]," who played Leo Bloom and Max Bialystock on Broadway, says the comic. But when it came time to cast escaped Nazi playwright Franz Liebkind in the new film, "I thought, Who's manic?" says Brooks. Enter WILL FERRELL, center. "There was something dangerous and mad in his eyes," Brooks explains. If it works, Ferrell may join the gang for Brooks' next version of The Producers. "What do you think we should...
...play was a collaboration between Ivers Visiting Artists Pig Iron and internationally award-winning playwright Adriano Shaplin. Known for his hyper-verbal style, Shaplin represents the diametric opposite of Pig Iron’s physically based dance-drama work; it was a first time endeavor for both groups...