What 1985 August Wilson play featured Robert Gossett on Broadway?
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Robert Gossett Robert Gossett (born March 3, 1954) is an American television, theater, and film actor. Gossett landed his first professional job after he graduated from high school in a production of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest". He went on to act in the Broadway production of Lloyd Richard's "Fences", Hal Scott's "A Raisin in the Sun" and Donald McKayle's "The Last Minstrel Show". He also performed in the Negro Ensemble Company's productions of "Manhattan Made Me", "Sons & Fathers of Sons", "A Soldier's Play" and "Colored People's Time". Robert also has extensive television experience with guest starring roles on "Crossing Jordan", "NYPD Blue", and "Black Angel". In film, Gossett has acted in the Jeff Bridges/Tim Robbins film "Arlington Road" and the Sandra Bullock movie "The Net".
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Fences (play) Fences is a 1985 play by American playwright August Wilson. Set in the 1950s, it is the sixth in Wilson's ten-part "Pittsburgh Cycle". Like all of the "Pittsburgh" plays, "Fences" explores the evolving African-American experience and examines race relations, among other themes. The play won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the 1987 Tony Award for Best Play. The play was first developed at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's 1983 National Playwrights Conference and premiered at the Yale Repertory Theatre in 1985.
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Rebel: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Rebel: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is a soundtrack to the 1985 Australian film of the same name which is based on the play "No Names, No Packdrill" by Bob Herbert.
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Michael Gow Michael Gow is an Australian playwright and director most famed for his 1986 work "Away".
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The Whales of August The Whales of August is a 1987 American drama film based on the play of the same name by David Berry and starring Bette Davis and Lillian Gish as elderly sisters. Also in the cast were Ann Sothern as one of their friends, and Vincent Price as a peripheral member of the former Russian aristocracy.
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Glengarry Glen Ross Glengarry Glen Ross is a play by David Mamet that won the Pulitzer Prize in 1984. The play shows parts of two days in the lives of four desperate Chicago real estate agents who are prepared to engage in any number of unethical, illegal acts—from lies and flattery to bribery, threats, intimidation and burglary—to sell undesirable real estate to unwitting prospective buyers. It is based on Mamet's experience having previously worked in a similar office.
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A Lie of the Mind A Lie of the Mind is a play written by Sam Shepard, first staged at the off-Broadway Promenade Theater on 5 December 1985. The play was directed by Shepard himself with stars Harvey Keitel as Jake, Amanda Plummer as Beth, Aidan Quinn as Frankie, Geraldine Page as Lorraine, and Will Patton as Mike. The music was composed and played by the North Carolina bluegrass group the Red Clay Ramblers.
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Ogunquit Playhouse The Ogunquit Playhouse is a regional theater at 10 Main Street (United States Route 1) in Ogunquit, Maine. The Ogunquit Playhouse is one of the last remaining summer theatres from the Straw Hat Circuit, also referred to as Summer Stock, still producing live musical theatre. The theatre is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In 2015, the listing was raised to National Level of Significance "in consideration of the significant contributions made by its founder Walter J. Hartwig and the Playhouse to Performing Arts Education throughout the nation."
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August: Osage County (film) August: Osage County is a 2013 American comedy-drama film written by Tracy Letts and based on his Pulitzer Prize–winning , and directed by John Wells. It is produced by George Clooney, Grant Heslov, Jean Doumanian and Steve Traxler.
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Robert Wilson (dramatist) Robert Wilson (flourished 15721600), was an Elizabethan dramatist who worked primarily in the 1580s and 1590s. He is also believed to have been an actor who specialized in clown roles.
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West 57th (TV series) West 57th is a newsmagazine series that aired on CBS from August 13, 1985, through September 9, 1989. "West 57th" originally premiered as a summer series, and took its name from the New York address of the CBS Broadcast Center, 524 West 57th Street. The original correspondents were Jane Wallace, Bob Sirott, Meredith Vieira and John Ferrugia. Later contributors included Steve Kroft, Selina Scott, Karen Burnes and Stephen Schiff.
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Honeymoon in Vegas (musical) Honeymoon in Vegas is a musical with a book by Andrew Bergman and music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown. The musical is based on the 1992 movie of the same name which Bergman also wrote and directed. The musical had its world premiere at the Paper Mill Playhouse and premiered on Broadway in January 2015.
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Brian Stewart (playwright) Brian Stewart is a British playwright. He is best known for his play "Castro's Beard" that was first produced by the Deptford players, off-broadway in 2001. The New York Times described it as a 'Mordant, irreverent Comedy that was timely and thought-provoking'." It was subsequently produced by the Barrington Stage Company in Massachusetts in 2002 and then at the Stages Repertory Theatre, Houston in 2004. Following a rehearsed reading at the Arts centre in London in 2005 - with a cast that included David Soul and Timothy West - the play was produced by the Theatre Royal Haymarket, in association with Richard Jordan Productions and the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford, and embarked on a number one tour of the UK in 2006 when the name was changed to "Killing Castro". The cast included: Edward Hardwicke (Torphy), Clive Mantle (Brawner), Michael Praed (Madison) and Martin Shaw's son, Joe Shaw, as Drake. The play which centres on the true plots by the CIA to assassinate Fidel Castro in the 1960s received mixed reviews in the UK. It was described by the "Birmingham Mail" as an "acclaimed comedy" which "chronicles the more bizarre of America's attempts to kill the Cuban leader Fidel Castro - including filling his shoes with poison and inventing an exploding cigar." The "Daily Telegraph" said "The British dramatist Brian Stewart appears to have got lucky with this intermittently entertaining but rather trite little play about the CIA's plots to bump off Fidel Castro.". Although, Michael Billington of the Guardian was much more complimentary: 'Stewart's weapon is comedy. But his argument, that America will stop at nothing in its defiance of international law, is no different from that of Pinter in his Nobel speech.'. The play was published by Josef Weinberger in 2009. In 2013, the play was translated into Polish by Karolina Mackiewicz and performed in repertory by the Teatr Polski Szczecin as "Operacja Castro"; the director was Bartłomiej Wysozomirski.
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The Old Maid (play) The Old Maid is a 1935 play adapted by American playwright Zoë Akins from Edith Wharton's 1924 novella of the same name, included in the collection "Old New York". It was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It ran for 305 performances at the Empire Theatre in 1935.
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1985 Open Championship The 1985 Open Championship was a men's major golf championship and the 114th Open Championship, held from 18–21 July at Royal St George's Golf Club in Sandwich, England. Sandy Lyle won his only Open Championship, one stroke ahead of runner-up Payne Stewart. It was the first of his two major titles; Lyle added a green jacket as Masters champion in 1988.
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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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Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill is a play with music by Lanie Robertson, recounting some events in the life of Billie Holiday. The play originally premiered in 1986 at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia, and soon played Off-Broadway. The play opened on Broadway in 2014.
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Thunder Alley (1985 film) Thunder Alley is a 1985 American drama film written and directed by J. S. Cardone. The film stars Leif Garrett, Roger Wilson, Jill Schoelen, Scott McGinnis, Cindy Eilbacher and Clancy Brown. The film was released on August 1, 1985, by The Cannon Group, Inc..
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Women of Manhattan Women of Manhattan is a play written by John Patrick Shanley and originally produced in 1986.
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My American Cousin My American Cousin is a Canadian drama film, released in 1985. Written and directed by Sandy Wilson based on her own childhood, the film stars Margaret Langrick as Sandy Wilcox, a pre-teen girl growing up on a ranch in rural Penticton, British Columbia in the late 1950s. Sandy's longing to be treated as an adult is roused even further when her older American cousin Butch Walker (John Wildman) comes for a visit. The cast also includes Richard Donat, Jane Mortifee, Babz Chula and Camille Henderson.
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Almost Real "Almost Real" is a song from the Broadway musical The Bridges of Madison County, written and composed by Jason Robert Brown. The show premiered in February 2014. The song was performed by the character, Francesca; the role was originated on Broadway by Tony Award-winning actress, Kelli O'Hara. The song is sung early in Act II. Francesca is telling Robert, her lover, how she came to America from Italy. The song precedes Robert asking Francesca to leave her home, something she has done in the past, and go off with him. As displayed in the song, she makes choices based on what is easiest, the things that she desires are always ‘almost real’; She decided to stay in Winterset, Iowa with her family.
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Coastal Disturbances Coastal Disturbances is a play by Tina Howe, which premiered Off-Broadway in 1986 and transferred to Broadway. It received a Tony Award nomination as Best Play. The play takes place on a beach in Massachusetts.