Her life term work was immortalised when the Hollywood legend Meryl Streep played her in a Broadway play.
And then there was Monty Python and the Holy Grail, which later became the basis for the successful Broadway play, Spamalot.
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Diddy, a rap star, is reported to have switched off his BlackBerry for a few weeks while he appears in a Broadway play.
The off- Broadway play, Love, Loss, and What I Wore.
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After regular appearances on "The Ed Sullivan Show, " Griffith appeared in the 1955 Broadway play "No Time for Sergeants, " for which he received a Tony nomination.
Composed in 1934, by a Russian (now he would be a Belarussian), who was a descendant of Georgian royalty Vladimir Dukelsky for the Broadway play Thumbs Up!
Ranked number 9 on the American Film Institute's 2008 list of the 10 greatest films in the "Mystery" genre, Dial M for Murder was adapted by Frederick Knott from his hit Broadway stage play.
Green Day, the band that took snarly punk rock all the way to Broadway, will play one of this year's most anticipated sets.
Coen - who, alongside his brother has co-directed and produced Academy-award winning films such as No Country for Old Men and Fargo - is making his debut on Broadway with his play Talking Cure.
Perhaps only a friendship and collaboration that has lasted more than 40 years could result in Weaver happily playing Masha these days in the brilliant "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike" on Broadway, a play likely to score at least a few Tony Award nominations next week.
"I think 'Lombardi' helped in the sense that it gave credibility to the concept of a sports play on Broadway, " Ponturo said.
It's become a dismayingly rare pleasure to see a serious play on Broadway, and while this revival, like "Orphans" itself, is far from perfect, it's still very much worth seeing.
John Logan's "I'll Eat You Last: A Chat With Sue Mengers, " in which Ms. Midler impersonates the late Hollywood superagent, isn't the worst one-person play to hit Broadway this century (that would be "Ann").
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Soon after the play opened on Broadway, co-producer Scott Rudin asked him to turn it into a film, which starred Meryl Streep as Sister Aloysius and Philip Seymour Hoffman as Father Flynn, and invited him to direct.
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Other famous names to play the parts on Broadway include Claire Bloom, John Neville, Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier.
The play debuted off-Broadway in February 2010, before making its UK premiere at London's Royal Court later that year.
But while Mr. Wilson revised the script extensively between 1979 and 2000, when the final version of the play was performed Off Broadway, he never got the second act quite right.
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Allowing your friend to believe that you too think her six-act play about the invention of the cotton gin is bound for Broadway and of course Hugh Jackman would be an excellent choice to play Eli Whitney is not an act of mercy, but one of cowardice (albeit well-intentioned).
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Transformers star Shia LaBeouf has pulled out of his forthcoming Broadway debut in Lyle Kessler's play Orphans.
Our big hope is the Mab, of course: the Mabuhay Gardens, on Broadway, where all the punk bands play.
The play was last seen on Broadway in 1974, with James Earl Jones and Kevin Conway playing the two friends.
Ms. Edson, now a middle-school teacher in Atlanta, said she never was gunning specifically for her play to make it to Broadway, and she fondly recalled an early staging in a tiny New York theater.
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The Group Theater, headed by Harold Clurman, who helped blaze the trail for Method acting, went to see Frances Farmer in the show and hired them both for the Broadway production of Clifford Odets's play "Golden Boy" in 1937.
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The play, which played off-Broadway last year and recently made the jump to the Golden Theatre, centers on three middle-aged siblings.
Yes, it would be fun to see Ms. Mueller and Ms. Murphy play Cinderella and the Witch on Broadway but not like this.
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He made his Broadway debut in William Inge's 1953 play "Picnic, " opposite Kim Stanley, one of the most successful stage actresses of her time.
When the play by Yasmina Reza ran on Broadway in 2009-10, it originally starred Hope Davis in Ms. Winslet's role with James Gandolfini, Marcia Gay Harden and Jeff Daniels.
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It was crafted by two big theater names: writer Theresa Rebeck, whose play "Seminar" is on Broadway, and director Michael Mayer, whose remake of "On a Clear Day You Can See Forever" just opened (see review, page D11).
The double Oscar winner, who is making his Broadway debut in the late Nora Ephron's play, received high praise from critics.
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