Several theater producers who are not working with celebrity presenters said they saw benefits to the strategy, knowing the challenges of attracting investors and theatergoers to new musicals and plays like "Fela!" and "Next Fall" that -- unlike many shows on Broadway -- do not have stars or are not based on popular movies or books.
Video games based on popular films or novels have been around for a long time, but now the ideas are beginning to flow the other way.
The English choreographer Matthew Bourne is known for ballets that are based on popular tales or movies; that pulsate with crime and passion; that transpire on shifting planes of reality; that incorporate big, crazy dance parties and small, nastily observed manners; and that generally end with the boy's not getting the girl, or the boy.
I have been pleasantly surprised that despite being a new fund, we have managed to win deals, as entrepreneurs were impressed that we offer unique perspectives, an expedient diligence process and decisions that are not based on popular sentiment or market trends.
At Toronto, the many biopics, as well as the films ripped from the headlines, like Jon Stewart's Rosewater, or based on popular memoirs, like the Reese Witherspoon solo-journey adventure Wild, all testify to how reality, more than ever, is becoming the dramatic coin of the realm.
This allows me to focus our editorial efforts based on popular stories on a given day or a new trend.
In England alone did this wide repertory of plays based on popular legend become limited to the one basic pattern of the Punch-and-Judy show.
Toys will include collectible figures based on popular characters and hexagonal discs that offer special powers or gadgets that can be used in the games.
Cogo et al. [ 4] determined whether the use of traditional medicinal plants used in the treatment of gastrointestinal diseases actually presented pharmacological effects or if they are simply based on popular use.
