Sentence examples for played the witch from inspiring English sources

True collaboration waited until 2013, and the movie version of "Into the Woods," in which Streep played the witch.

(They received goodbye kisses from the Broadway lyricist Richard Maltby, Jr., whose daughter played the witch in last summer's "Into the Woods").

She played the witch Serafina Pekkala in Chris Weitz's The Golden Compass, his adaptation of the first volume of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy of fantasy novels.

She played the witch girl, Barbara Allen, in a 1955 London University production of The Dark of the Moon alongside a young Tom Courtenay, and that led to a Leverhulme scholarship to train for the stage at Rada.

Cassandra Gava played the witch.

She's content to play the witch, however, and the other women make room for her in the role, sulking and muttering about her power.

Donna Murphy, a two-time Tony Award winner, will play the Witch in this summer's Shakespeare in the Park production of the Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine musical "Into the Woods," the show's producers at the Public Theater announced on Wednesday.

BOTH Donna Murphy, who plays the Witch, and Amy Adams, the Baker's Wife, in the Public Theater's revival of "Into the Woods" — Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's musical based on stories from the Grimm brothers — have solid fairy-tale credentials.

Buzz had been swirling for weeks that Meryl Streep would play the Witch after she was cited as a possibility in an interview with Mr. Sondheim in the London Evening Standard.

Vanessa Williams, who plays the witch in "Into the Woods" was nominated for leading actress; Laura Benanti, who plays the princess, for featured actress; Gregg Edelman, who plays the prince, for featured actor; and John McMartin, who narrates, for leading actor.

Quite evidently she's playing the Witch who, without wanting to spoil too much for those who haven't seen the Sondheim musical, is perhaps the primary antagonist of the entire story.