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J.B. is a 1958 play written in free verse by American playwright and poet Archibald MacLeish, and is a modern-day retelling of the story of the biblical figure Job.The play is about J.B. (a stand-in for Job), a devout millionaire with a happy domestic life whose life is ruined.
Originally written as part of IAMA Theatre Company's emerging writer's group, Job was the winner of the inaugural SoHo Playhouse Lighthouse Series. That production starred Alex O’Shea and Tim Barker. [6] The play was directed by Michael Herwitz and starred Peter Friedman and Sydney Lemmon. Performances began on September 6, 2023, with an ...
Job and His Friends by Ilya Repin (1869) The Hebrew Book of Job is part of Ketuvim ("Writings") of the Hebrew Bible. Not much is known about Job based on the Masoretic Text. The characters in the Book of Job consist of Job, his wife, his three friends (Bildad, Eliphaz, and Zophar), a man named Elihu, God, and angels.
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying is a 1961 musical by Frank Loesser and book by Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock, and Willie Gilbert, based on Shepherd Mead's 1952 book of the same name. The story concerns young, ambitious J. Pierrepont Finch, who, with the help of the book How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying , rises ...
A scroll of the Book of Job, in Hebrew. The Book of Job consists of a prose prologue and epilogue narrative framing poetic dialogues and monologues. [4] It is common to view the narrative frame as the original core of the book, enlarged later by the poetic dialogues and discourses, and sections of the book such as the Elihu speeches and the wisdom poem of chapter 28 as late insertions, but ...
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Job: A Masque for Dancing is a one-act ballet produced in 1931. The scenario is by Geoffrey Keynes , the choreography by Ninette de Valois , and the music by Ralph Vaughan Williams . The ballet is based on the Book of Job from the Hebrew Bible and was inspired by the illustrated edition by William Blake .
Comic-Con Begins was expanded into the book See You at San Diego: An Oral History of Comic-Con, Fandom, and the Triumph of Geek Culture by creator Mathew Klickstein and published by Fantagraphics on September 6, 2022. [39] The book includes forewords by cartoonists Stan Sakai and Jeff Smith, and an afterword by Wu-Tang Clan's RZA.