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The Biograph Theater on Lincoln Avenue in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, was originally a movie theater but now presents live productions. It gained early notoriety as the location where bank robber John Dillinger was leaving when he was shot down by FBI agents, after he watched a gangster movie there on July 22, 1934.
JoAnne Akalaitis (born June 29, 1937, in Cicero, Illinois) [1] [2] is an avant-garde American theatre director and writer. She has won five Obie Awards for direction (and sustained achievement) and was a co-founder of the New York theater company Mabou Mines. [3]
Joseph Papp (born Joseph Papirofsky; June 22, 1921 – October 31, 1991) was an American theatrical producer and director.He established The Public Theater in what had been the Astor Library Building in Lower Manhattan.
Theatre World Award (1947) Tony Award (1947, 1954) David Wayne (born Wayne James McMeekan ; January 30, 1914 [ 1 ] – February 9, 1995) was an American stage and screen actor with a career spanning over 50 years.
John Henry Lahr (born July 12, 1941) is an American theater critic and writer. [1] From 1992 to 2013, he was a staff writer and the senior drama critic at The New Yorker. [2]
Formerly known as the Cort Theatre, now the James Earl Jones Theatre on Broadway. Jones received two Primetime Emmy Awards, two Tony Awards, and a Grammy Award. He also was the recipient of a Golden Globe Award and the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award. In 2011, he received an Academy Honorary Award. [133]
In 2014, he returned to Central Park's Delacorte Theater and Shakespeare in the Park for the 2014 summer season in the title role of Shakespeare's King Lear, directed by Tony Award winner Daniel Sullivan. The production was the first play at the theater since 1973 and Lithgow's first time there since 1975 when he had played Laertes. [43]
Walter Francis Kerr (July 8, 1913 – October 9, 1996) was an American writer and Broadway theatre critic. He also was the writer, lyricist, and/or director of several Broadway plays and musicals as well as the author of several books, generally on the subject of theater and cinema.