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Short Eyes is a 1974 drama written by playwright Miguel Piñero. The play premiered at the Theater of the Riverside Church , [ 1 ] was then produced off-Broadway at the Joseph Papp Public Theater on February 28, 1974, and transferred after 54 performances to the Vivian Beaumont Theater on Broadway on May 23, 1974.
The Valiant is a one-act play from the 1920s by Holworthy Hall and Robert Middlemass. It became a popular play for local theater groups, and is still performed today. The play was copyrighted in 1920 [1] and first appeared in McClure's magazine in 1921. [2] It first appeared on the stage about 1924, and first appeared on Broadway (for one night ...
Susan Glaspell's adaptation "A Jury of Her Peers" is a story version of her play Trifles. [41] This short story is similar to Trifles. Trifles, a chamber opera in one act, premiered in Berkeley, California, at the Live Oak Theatre on June 17 and 19, 2010 was composed by John G. Bilotta and its libretto was written by John F. McGrew.
The play's name comes from the lyrics of the 1917 song "Bless 'Em All". A film adaptation was released in 1961. [2] Directed by Leslie Norman, it stars Laurence Harvey, Richard Harris, Richard Todd and David McCallum. [3] A TV drama followed in 1979 which starred Michael Kitchen, Mark McManus and Richard Morant. [4]
Philip Hope-Wallace of The Guardian reviewed the opening night in the issue of 13 August 1958 when he said, "The Unexpected Guest is standard Agatha Christie. It has nothing as ingenious or exciting as the court scene and double twist of Witness for the Prosecution but it kept last night's audience at the Duchess Theatre in a state of stunned uncertainty; guessing wrongly to the last.
The billing from the Radio Times issue of 25–31 May 1947, illustrating the night's programmes on radio for Queen Mary including the performance of Three Blind Mice. Three Blind Mice is the name of a half-hour radio play written by Agatha Christie, which was later adapted into a television film, a short story, and a popular stage production.
Beauty Is the Word is Tennessee Williams' first play. The 12-page one-act was written in 1930 while Williams was a freshman at University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri and submitted to a contest run by the school's Dramatic Arts Club. [1]
The play had its premiere in Korsh Theatre in Moscow on October 28, 1888. [2] The Bear was a success from the start. In Chekhov's lifetime it brought in regular royalties, and it has constantly been revived on both professional and amateur stages worldwide since. Chekhov, who often referred to his own writing in self-deprecating ways, remarked ...