Actor Peter Lockyer recently returned to his native Connecticut to play in a five-character memory play by what famous American playwright?
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Peter Lockyer Peter Lockyer is an American actor and singer. He was born in Poughkeepsie, NY. As a child, he split his time between Toronto and Connecticut, and went to the same high school as actress Gretchen Mol. Lockyer has appeared in numerous productions, including "Miss Saigon" as Chris, "Les Misérables" as Marius, and "La Boheme" on Broadway. He has also appeared in a tour of "The Phantom of the Opera" and on TV with Bette Midler in a 1993 adaption of "". After a break in performing, during which he earned dual master's degrees, qualifying him to teach in New York City, Lockyer returned to acting for the European tour of Barbra Streisand's "Broadway Boys". He has also performed "42nd Street" in Europe and "Les Misérables" in China and South Korea. Recently, Lockyer returned to his native Connecticut to play the role of Tom in "The Glass Menagerie" at the historical Ivoryton Playhouse. He is playing Jean Valjean in Les Misérables in the current national tour. Years before he played the role in a Hawaiian production of Les Misérables, which he directed himself. Played JVJ in Les Misérables in US 25th Anniversary Tour and in 2015 at Queen's Theatre on London's West End in UK.
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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 Waverley Gallery The Waverly Gallery is a play by Kenneth Lonergan. It is considered a "memory play". The show, first produced Off-Broadway in 2000, follows a grandson watching his grandmother slowly die from Alzheimer's disease. The play was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2001.
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The Onion Cellar The Onion Cellar is a play that premiered at the American Repertory Theater's venue, the Zero Arrow Theater (now Club Oberon), in Cambridge, Massachusetts from December 9, 2006 to January 13, 2007. It is a cross between a musical, cabaret show, rock concert and drama. It was the brain child of Amanda Palmer who based the title of the production on a chapter from Günter Grass's "The Tin Drum". In the novel, The Onion Cellar is a bar in post-war Germany where people go to share painful memories and cry. While drinking and talking, the clients peel onions, both to make crying easier and to lessen the shame for those afraid to express their feelings openly.
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Talley's Folly Talley's Folly is a 1980 play by American playwright Lanford Wilson, the second in his cycle, "The Talley Trilogy" between his plays "Talley & Son" and "Fifth of July". Set in an old boathouse near rural Lebanon, Missouri in 1944, it is a romantic comedy following the characters Matt Friedman and Sally Talley as they once and for all settle their feelings for each other. Wilson received the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the work. The play is unique for Wilson in that it takes place in one act, with no intermission, set in ninety-seven minutes of real time. There is no set change.
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The York Realist The York Realist is a 2001 play by Peter Gill. It was premiered at the Lowry in November 2001 before moving to the Bristol Old Vic and the Royal Court Theatre in January 2002 by English Touring Theatre, with Gill himself directing. It transferred to the Strand Theatre in March 2002.
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Jonathan Bayliss Jonathan Bayliss (September 7, 1926 in Arlington, Massachusetts – April 15, 2009 in Gloucester, Massachusetts) was an American novelist and playwright who lived and wrote in Gloucester, Massachusetts. He was a close friend of poet Charles Olson after Olson's return to Gloucester in the late 1950s. Bayliss's highly innovative and polymathic novels employ a vast vocabulary, contain mathematical and philosophical puzzles, and avoid pop culture references in favor of historical and mythological allusions.
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OyamO Charles F. Gordon (born September 7, 1943), known professionally as OyamO, is an American playwright and professor. He is currently a writer-in-residence at the University of Michigan.
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Call Me by My Rightful Name Call Me By My Rightful Name is an American play by Michael Shurtleff which is based on a story by S.F. Pfoutz. The production premiered Off-Broadway on January 31, 1961 at the One Sheridan Square theatre where it ran for a total of 127 performances. The production was directed by Milton Katselas and starred Robert Duvall as Doug, Joan Hackett as Chris, Alvin Ailey as Paul, Robert Hogan as Elliot, Milo Boulton as Mr. Watkins, and Dortha Duckworth as Mrs. Watkins. Hackett won a Theatre World Award, an Obie Award, and a Drama Desk Award for her performance.
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American Buffalo (play) American Buffalo is a 1975 play by American playwright David Mamet which had its premiere in a showcase production at the Goodman Theatre, Chicago. After two more showcase productions it opened on Broadway in 1977.
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Samuel Merwin (writer) Samuel Merwin, Sr. (6 October 1874 – 17 October 1936) was an American playwright and author.
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Idioglossia (play) Idioglossia is a play by American playwright Mark Handley about a girl who grows up without modern culture learning how to speak.
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Spring Storm Spring Storm is a 1937 play written by American playwright Tennessee Williams. Tennessee Williams wrote "Spring Storm" when he was twenty-six years old, in 1937, while studying as an apprentice. "Spring Storm" received poor reviews in Williams’s playwriting course, and it did not receive its first production until 1995 in Berkeley, California. The European premiere took place at the Royal & Derngate Northampton on 15 October 2009, running alongside "Beyond the Horizon" by Eugene O'Neill. Both productions subsequently transferred to the Royal National Theatre in 2010 to the Cottesloe Theatre. Written and rewritten between 1937 and 1938, this full-length play depicts life and conflicted love in a small Mississippi Delta town during the Great Depression.
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The Homecoming The Homecoming is a two-act play written in 1964 by Nobel laureate Harold Pinter and it was first published in 1965. Its premières in London (1965) and New York (1967) were both directed by Sir Peter Hall and starred Pinter's first wife, Vivien Merchant, as Ruth. The original Broadway production won the 1967 Tony Award for Best Play. Its 40th-anniversary Broadway production at the Cort Theatre was nominated for a 2008 Tony Award for "Best Revival of a Play".
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Martin Blank (playwright) Martin Blank is an American playwright, screenwriter, and theatrical producer.
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An Old Jew An Old Jew is an 1894 play by the British writer Sydney Grundy. It opened at the Garrick Theatre in London on 6 January 1894 with its original run ending less than a month later on 3 February. The play was written for one of the leading actor-manager's of the era John Hare. The play was revived on several occasions, beginning the following year at the Coronet Theatre under the alternative title of Julius Sterne, the name of the main character. Gerald du Maurier a future stage star, made his debut in the play with a very small role.
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Kit, the Arkansas Traveler Kit, the Arkansas Traveler or Kit, the Arkansas Traveller (or, in its initial version, Down the Mississippi) is a stage play written in 1868 (and later reworked) for the American actor Francis S. Chanfrau. It is one of the landmarks of that century's American genre of border drama.
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A Double-Threaded Life A Double-Threaded Life: The Hinton Play is a play by the American playwright Maryat Lee. An example of the Ecotheater Lee made famous, it consists of a series of monologues and dialogues co-written by the people of Hinton, West Virginia.
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Another Country (play) Another Country is a play written by the English playwright Julian Mitchell. It premiered on 5 November 1981 at the Greenwich Theatre, London, and transferred to the West End in March 1982. The play has developed a strong connection with Oxford Playhouse, which revived the play in 2000 in a new production directed by Stephen Henry (transferred to the Arts Theatre, Westminster, from September 2000 until January 2001). It was revived again at Oxford Playhouse in February 2013 by OUDS-supported Oxford University student company Screw the Looking Glass. In September 2013 a successful collaboration between Theatre Royal Bath and Chichester Festival Theatre was directed by Jeremy Herrin, transferring to Trafalgar Studios in 2014.
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Robert Litz Robert Joseph Litz (born October 3, 1950 in Cleveland, Ohio – died October 10, 2012) was an American playwright, screenwriter, director and critic.
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Peter Selgin Peter Selgin (//; born 1957) is an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, essayist, editor, and illustrator. Selgin is Associate Professor of English at Georgia College & State University in Milledgeville, Georgia. He is also an affiliate faculty member at Antioch University's Low-Residency MFA Creative Writing Program in Los Angeles, California.
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Leslie Jordan Leslie Allen Jordan (born April 29, 1955) is an American actor and playwright.