Word: theaterful
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...Pudding selected Hathaway, 27, for her background in and commitment to theater, as well as her ability to play characters whose personalities and situations widely vary, according to Smolinsky...
Cliff N. Murray '10, the president of the Pudding, confirmed that Hathaway will be the honoree. David J. Smolinsky '11, the Pudding's press manager, said that she was chosen for her diversity of performances and commitment to theater...
...That theater aspect really hit home for us, for the Pudding, and we're so excited for her to come," Smolinsky said...
...Broadway in just the past year or so. His terse, fragmented, elliptical dialogue; his rogue's gallery of hustlers, con men and losers; his twisty, shaggy-dog plots; his cynical take on the American dream--Mamet's style and themes have seeped into nearly every pore of American theater. (Non-American theater too: Martin McDonagh, whose Irish black comedies are clear descendants of Mamet's work, has called American Buffalo his favorite play...
...turning point for Mamet's theater work, it now appears, was Oleanna, his 1992 play in which a college professor's patronizing efforts to help a female student lead to an unjust charge of sexual harassment. Though the staccato dialogue was Mametspeak at its purest, a political agenda drove the characters in a way it never had any of Mamet's previous slimy, but at least self-directed, small-time crooks or real estate sharpies...