(Mr. Belasco was also a co-author of another play that inspired Puccini, "Madame Butterfly").
The point appears to be that love makes fools of everyone, which is also the point — or a point — of the Shakespeare play that inspired this woozy frolic.
Theatergoers will have the rare chance to see Shakespeare's "Comedy of Errors" and the play that inspired it, Plautus's "Brothers Menaechmus," in Santa Cruz this summer.
Audiences who have never even heard of the play that inspired Long Wharf's current production will have no trouble appreciating it.
The season will conclude with a staged reading of "Day of Absence," the 1965 Douglas Turner Ward play that inspired the formal founding of the Negro Ensemble Company.
"THE MATCHMAKER," the Thornton Wilder play that inspired the musical "Hello, Dolly!," presented by the St. Bart's Players, directed by Donald Brenner.
Musicologist Dr Philip Carli accompanied Decameron Nights (1924); in lieu of the film's lost score, he incorporated pieces from the music for the play that inspired it.
At the end of "Pelleas," Schoenberg's gargantuan orchestral meditation on the same Maurice Maeterlinck play that inspired Debussy's opera, there was a remarkable effect that I hope is a sign of things to come.
But they too speak in what is likely to sound like enigmatic gibberish to anyone who isn't thoroughly familiar with Chekhov's "Seagull," the play that inspired this performance piece.
Peter McKintosh has created a wonderful design in which the art deco flat of The Astonished Heart appears transformed as the dowdy station buffet of Still Life - the play that inspired Brief Encounter.
