What is th name of the play, written by Tennessee Williams, that starred Simone Kirby?
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Simone Kirby Simone Kirby is an Irish actress. She is probably best known for playing Oonagh in the Ken Loach film "Jimmy's Hall". Other credits include Irene O'Donnell in "Peaky Blinders" (2014), Marilyn Hull in "Notes on Blindness" (2016), Tyva Hightopp in "Alice Through The Looking Glass" (2016), Sr. Grace in "Houdini and Doyle" (2016), Maria Roche in "The Truth Commissioner" (2016), Annette Rane in "Clean Break" (2015), Tracey Moynihan in "Love/Hate" (2014) and Geraldine Grehan in the RTÉ series "Pure Mule". She co-wrote and performed in the RTÉ comedy sketch show "Meet Your Neighbours" in 2011 with P.J. Gallagher. She also appeared in "Season of the Witch" in 2011. On stage she appeared in "Dancing at Lughnasa" at The Old Vic, "Macbeth" at Shakespeare's Globe, "Molly Sweeney" at the Irish Rep in New York and Curve in Leicester, "Festen" at the Gate Theatre, "Mud" and "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" with the Corn Exchange, Dublin, "Don Carlos" and "The Taming of the Shrew" with Rough Magic and "The Tinker's Wedding" under Garry Hynes for the Druid Theatre Company's DruidSynge. She also portrayed Nuala in "The Cavalcaders" under Robin Lefevre and Lady Teasle in "The School For Scandal" under Jimmy Fay at Dublin's Abbey Theatre.
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a play by Tennessee Williams. One of Williams's best-known works and his personal favorite, the play won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1955. Set in the "plantation home in the Mississippi Delta" of Big Daddy Pollitt, a wealthy cotton tycoon, the play examines the relationships among members of Big Daddy's family, primarily between his son Brick and Maggie the "Cat", Brick's wife.
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Little Christopher Columbus Little Christopher Columbus is a burlesque opera in two acts, with music by Ivan Caryll and Gustave Kerker and a libretto by George R. Sims and Cecil Raleigh. It opened on 10 October 1893 at the Lyric Theatre in London and then transferred to Terry's Theatre, running for a total of 421 performances, which was a very successful run at the time. May Yohé created the title role, and Furneaux Cook and E. J. Lonnen were in the cast. Mabel Love, Geraldine Ulmar and Florence St. John joined the cast as replacements.
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The Corn Is Green The Corn Is Green is a 1938 semi-autobiographical play by Welsh dramatist and actor Emlyn Williams. The play premiered in London at the Duchess Theatre in 1938 with Williams portraying Morgan Evans. The original Broadway production starred Ethel Barrymore and premiered at the National Theatre on November 26, 1940, running for 477 performances.
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Sweet Bird of Youth Sweet Bird of Youth is a 1959 play by Tennessee Williams which tells the story of a gigolo and drifter, Chance Wayne, who returns to his home town as the companion of a faded movie star, Alexandra Del Lago (travelling incognito as Princess Kosmonopolis), whom he hopes to use to help him break into the movies. The main reason for his homecoming is to get back what he had in his youth: primarily, his old girlfriend, whose father had run him out of town years before. The play was written for Tallulah Bankhead, a good friend of Tennessee.
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The Seven Descents of Myrtle The Seven Descents of Myrtle is a play by Tennessee Williams. It originally began as a short story, which Williams then turned into a one-act play, and then later revised it into the seven-act play that is accepted today. Its title character is reminiscent of another Williams' heroine, Blanche Dubois in "A Streetcar Named Desire".
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Rain On The Just Rain On The Just is a play by Peter Watling which premiered in 1948 at the Theatre Royal, Newcastle upon Tyne. The cast included Marie Ney, Eileen Peel, Michael Denison, Geoffrey Keen, Dulcie Gray and Edgar Norfolk. Later that year the show moved to the Bristol Old Vic with much of the same cast. Actress Rachel Gurney replaced Gray in the role of the fiancé. The play had its London premiere in August 1948 at the Aldwych Theatre with Dulcie Gray returning to the cast. The play was also broadcast on radio on the BBC's "Sunday Night Theatre" and in Australia on Radio National in 1951.
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Michelle Williams on screen and stage Michelle Williams is an American actress who has appeared in film, television and stage. Her first screen appearance was at the age of 13 in a 1993 episode of the television series "Baywatch", and she made her film debut as the love interest of the teenage lead in "Lassie" (1994). She subsequently had guest roles in the television sitcoms "Step by Step" and "Home Improvement" and played the younger version of Natasha Henstridge's character in the science fiction film "Species" (1995). Greater success came to Williams when she began starring as the sexually troubled teenager Jen Lindley in the teen drama "Dawson's Creek" (1998–2003). In 1999, she made her stage debut with the Tracy Letts-written play "Killer Joe", in which she played the naive young daughter of a dysfunctional family.
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Floyd Collins (musical) Floyd Collins is a musical with music and lyrics by Adam Guettel, book by Tina Landau, and additional lyrics by Landau. The story is based on the death of Floyd Collins near Cave City, Kentucky in the winter of 1925. The musical opened Off-Broadway on February 9, 1996, where it ran for 25 performances. There have been subsequent London productions as well as regional U.S. productions.
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I Remember Mama (play) I Remember Mama is a play by John Van Druten based on Kathryn Forbes' novel "Mama's Bank Account", which was loosely based on her childhood. It is a study of family life centered on a Norwegian immigrant family in San Francisco early in the 20th century. The play premiered on Broadway on October 19, 1944 at the Music Box Theatre in New York City, where it ran for 713 performances; it was produced by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. The cast included Mady Christians, Oscar Homolka, and Joan Tetzel. Marlon Brando played a minor role, making his Broadway debut as Nels.
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The Red Devil Battery Sign The Red Devil Battery Sign is a 1975 drama written by American playwright Tennessee Williams. It was revised substantially before publication.
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The Legend of Georgia McBride The Legend of Georgia McBride is a 2015 American play written by Matthew Lopez.
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Janie (1944 film) Janie is a 1944 film directed by Michael Curtiz based on a 1942 Broadway play by Josephine Bentham and Herschel V. Williams, Jr.
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Zaza (play) Zaza is a French-language play written by playwrights Pierre Berton and Charles Simon, and staged for the first time at the Théâtre du Vaudeville in Paris, in May 1898. The title character is a prostitute who becomes a music hall entertainer and the mistress of a married man.
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The Woman in Black (play) The Woman in Black is a 1987 stage play, adapted by Stephen Mallatratt. The play is based on the book of the same name, which was published in 1983 by English author Susan Hill. The play is currently being produced by PW Productions, led by Peter Wilson. It is notable for only having two actors perform the whole play. It was first performed at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough, in 1987. The production opened in London's West End in 1989 and is still being performed there, becoming the second longest-running non-musical play in West End history, after "The Mousetrap".
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A Tuna Christmas A Tuna Christmas is the second in a series of comedic plays (preceded by "Greater Tuna" and followed by "Red, White and Tuna" and "Tuna Does Vegas"), each set the fictional town of Tuna, Texas, the "third-smallest" town in the state. The trilogy was written by Jaston Williams, Joe Sears, and Ed Howard. The plays are at once an affectionate comment on small-town, Southern life and attitudes but also a withering satire of same. The plays are notable in that two men play the entire cast of over twenty eccentric characters of multiple genders and various ages. The first play, "Greater Tuna", debuted in 1981 in Austin; "A Tuna Christmas" debuted in 1989 with touring ending in 2012 after Sears' retirement from the troupe.
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Black Nativity Black Nativity is a retelling of the classic Nativity story with an entirely black cast. Traditional Christmas carols are sung in gospel style, with a few songs created specifically for the show. Originally written by Langston Hughes, the show was first performed Off-Broadway on December 11, 1961, and was one of the first plays written by an African American to be staged there. The show had a successful tour of Europe in 1962, one of its appearances being at the Spoleto Festival of Two Worlds in Italy. "Black Nativity" has been performed annually in Boston, Massachusetts at various locations, such as: the Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts, Boston Opera House, Tremont Temple, Roxbury Community College, Northeastern's Blackman Auditorium, and presently at Emerson College's Paramount Theater since 1969 & is considered the longest-running production of Langston Hughes' "Black Nativity." The original 160 singers were arranged by age group and vocal range, with an assortment of soloists, along with the narrator, and Mary and Joseph, who are both mute, as well as musicians & ASL interpreters.
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The Glass Menagerie The Glass Menagerie is a five-character memory play by Tennessee Williams that premiered in 1944 and catapulted Williams from obscurity to fame. The play has strong autobiographical elements, featuring characters based on Williams himself, his histrionic mother, and his mentally fragile sister Rose. In writing the play, Williams drew on an earlier short story, as well as a screenplay he had written under the title of "The Gentleman Caller".
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The Gingerbread Lady The Gingerbread Lady is a play by Neil Simon, written specifically for actress Maureen Stapleton, who won both the Tony Award and Drama Desk Award for her performance.
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The Time of Your Life The Time of Your Life is a 1939 five-act play by American playwright William Saroyan. The play is the first drama to win both the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. The play opened on Broadway in 1939.
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Arizona (play) Arizona is a dramatic play written in 1899 by Augustus Thomas, considered one of his best. The play takes place in the Arizona Territory before the Spanish–American War of 1898.
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The Christmas Princess The Christmas Princess is a children's play comedy written by Arthur M. Jolly. It opened off-Broadway in December 2005 at The Coop Theatre Company in Los Angeles and is published by YouthPlays,Inc. The play was written as a modern fairytale, blending elements of the western European Brothers Grimm fairy tale and Japanese folklore.