Where did the play by an award-winning American actor and an accomplished playwright premiere where it broke box office records and garnered critical acclaim?
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Almost, Maine Almost, Maine is a play by John Cariani, comprising nine short plays that explore love and loss in a remote, mythical almost-town called Almost, Maine. It premiered at the Portland Stage Company in Portland, Maine in 2004 where it broke box office records and garnered critical acclaim. There are eleven short scenes: the Prologue (which continues in the Interlogue and Epilogue), Her Heart, Sad and Glad, This Hurts, Getting It Back, They Fell, Where It Went, Story of Hope, and Seeing the Thing.
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John Cariani John Edward Cariani (born July 23, 1969) is an award-winning American actor and an accomplished playwright. Cariani is best known to television viewers as the unwavering forensic expert Julian Beck in "Law & Order". On stage, he earned a Tony Award nomination for his role as Motel the Tailor in the 2004 Broadway revival of "Fiddler on the Roof". As a playwright, he is best known for his first play, "Almost, Maine", which has become one of the most frequently produced plays in the United States. He has starred on Broadway in the Tony Award winning musical "Something Rotten!" as Nigel Bottom.
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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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One Man Star Wars Trilogy One Man Star Wars Trilogy is an Off-Broadway play based on the original "Star Wars" trilogy, written and performed by Canadian actor Charles Ross, and directed by TJ Dawe. It premiered in Toronto, Ontario in January, 2001, and has since toured worldwide, with over 1,000 performances in 119 cities as of March 2007.
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The End of Longing The End of Longing is a dark comedy play written by Matthew Perry. The play which marked Perry's playwriting debut made its West End and world premiere at the Playhouse Theatre, in February 2016. The play made its United States debut Off-Broadway in May 2017, at the The Lucille Lortel Theatre.
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The Parisian Woman The Parisian Woman is a 2013 play in by Beau Willimon. It premiered at the South Coast Repertory, in April 2013 and centers on Chloe, a socialite armed with charm and wit, coming to terms with politics, her past, her marriage and an uncertain future. The play is expected to begin previews on Broadway on November 7, 2017. The play is inspired by Henri Becque’s La Parisienne.
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The Trip to Bountiful (play) The Trip to Bountiful is a play by American playwright Horton Foote. The play premiered March 1, 1953 on NBC-TV, before being produced on the Broadway stage November 3 – December 5, 1953.
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Moses Gunn Moses Gunn (October 2, 1929 – December 16, 1993) was an American actor of stage and screen. An Obie Award-winning stage player, he co-founded the Negro Ensemble Company in the 1960s. His 1962 Off-Broadway debut was in Jean Genet's "The Blacks," and his Broadway debut was in "A Hand is on the Gate," an evening of African-American poetry. He was nominated for a 1976 Tony Award as Best Actor (Play) for "The Poison Tree" and played Othello on Broadway in 1970.
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Piranha Heights Piranha Heights is a one act play by Philip Ridley. It is Ridley's seventh stage play for adults and premiered at the Soho Theatre, London in 2008. The production was the second collaboration between Ridley and Soho Theatre Artistic Director Lisa Goldman whom Ridley dedicated the play to in his preface of the published text. The play also featured Luke Treadaway in one of his earliest professional stage credits, who along with actor John Macmillan was filmed for Ridley's 2009 horror film "Heartless", during the play's original run.
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New Line Theatre New Line Theatre in St. Louis, Missouri, is an alternative musical theatre company producing challenging, adult, politically and socially relevant works of musical theatre. The company was created in 1991 and produces world premieres such as "Love Kills, Johnny Appleweed, Woman with Pocketbook, She's Hideous, In the Blood, Attempting the Absurd", and "The AmberKlavier"; lesser known Broadway and off Broadway shows such as "High Fidelity, Passing Strange, , The Wild Party, Floyd Collins, A New Brain, March of the Falsettos, Passion, The Robber Bridegroom, The Nervous Set", and ""; abstract musicals such as "Hair, Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris", and "Songs for a New World"; absurdist musicals such as "Reefer Madness, Attempting the Absurd, The Cradle Will Rock", and "Anyone Can Whistle"; concept musicals such as "Company", "Assassins", "Urinetown", "Chicago", "Sunday in the Park with George", and "Cabaret"; and reinterpretations of more mainstream works, such as "Evita", "Man of La Mancha", "Camelot", "Pippin", "Sweeney Todd", "Grease", and "Into the Woods".
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Moby Dick—Rehearsed Moby Dick—Rehearsed is a two-act drama by Orson Welles. The play was staged June 16–July 9, 1955, at the Duke of York's Theatre in London, in a production directed by Welles. The original cast included Welles, Christopher Lee, Kenneth Williams, Joan Plowright, Patrick McGoohan, Gordon Jackson, Peter Sallis, and Wensley Pithey. The play was published by Samuel French in 1965.
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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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Wonder of the World (play) Wonder of the World is a play by American playwright David Lindsay-Abaire. The play premiered at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in 2000 and then ran Off-Broadway in 2001.
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Leslie Jordan Leslie Allen Jordan (born April 29, 1955) is an American actor and playwright.
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Matthew Brumlow Matthew Brumlow is an American stage actor based in Chicago, Illinois. Brumlow has been a member of the American Blues Theater since 2001. He has starred in numerous productions and has received critical acclaim for many of his roles. He has twice been nominated for an Equity Jeff Award for his work as an actor in Chicago. he recently starred in a one-man show about the life of Hank Williams Sr. entitled, "Nobody Lonesome for Me." In March 2011, Brumlow was named one of the "50 most beautiful Chicagoans" by Chicago Magazine.
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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 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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Jonathan Rand Jonathan Rand is an American writer whose plays have been performed over 19,000 times in all 50 states and in 59 countries and are ranked among the most produced in North American high schools.
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The International (play) The International is a play by the American playwright John Howard Lawson. It was first produced by the New Playwrights' Theatre in New York, opening on January 12 1928. Lawson directed this production, while John Dos Passos designed the sets, Edward A. Ziman composed its music, Don Oscar Becque choreographed the dances, and Helen Johnson designed the costumes.
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Jim Neu James A. Neu (November 18, 1943 – July 19, 2010) was an American playwright who was best known for his quirky, experimental plays, many of which were staged Off-Off-Broadway.
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Fanny's First Play Fanny's First Play is a 1911 play by George Bernard Shaw. It was first performed as an anonymous piece, the authorship of which was to be kept secret. However, critics soon recognised it as the work of Shaw. It opened at the Little Theatre in the Adelphi in London on 19 April 1911 and ran for 622 performances. The mystery over the authorship helped to publicise it. It had the longest run of any of Shaw's plays. A second production opened on Broadway on September 16, 1912 for 256 performances. The play toured the provinces in England in the same year.
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The Vinegar Tree "The Vinegar Tree" was an early play by the American playwright Paul Osborn. It is a light comedy of manners and opened in 1930 at the Playhouse in New York starring Mary Boland and Warren William. In the review from the New York Times, Brooks Atkinson called Mary Boland's performance "a great treat for an audience that laughed until it burst its stays at The Playhouse last evening."