Sentence examples for portrait theater from inspiring English sources

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On Friday, Carol Tambor, a New York portrait painter, theater enthusiast and longtime visitor to the Edinburgh fringe, announced that she would bring not one but two of her favorites from this year's festival to New York for alltoobrief four-day runs in November.

Intriguing for its faintly disguised portraits of theater luminaries, the book also contains a glorious portrayal of building a character.

But there were glimmers of a more cynical attitude in "Carnival," anticipating the self-hating, self-worshiping portraits of theater folk by Bob Fosse.

Most of the essays in this portrait of New York theater, drawn mainly from the 1950's, appeared in The New Republic.

A New York philanthropist, portrait painter and theater lover, Ms. Tambor chooses one entry from nearly 2,000 at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland each year and presents it with the Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh Award.

Readers approaching this memoir in search of a conventional "Portrait of the Theater Critic as a Young Man" will be disappointed; we are never told, for example, which contemporary critics and playwrights inspired Rich and when -- or even whether -- he thought of becoming a theater critic.

In "Manhunt," James L. Swanson's gripping history of the 12-day chase that took place before Booth was killed, we can get a far better glimpse of the assassin's obsessions than we can from the nicked portrait on the theater box.

COMMUNITY THEATER "Portraits and More," exhibition of pastels by Deborah Seymour and "A Perspective in Movement," exhibition of works by Cornelia Ruehlicke.

"The Perfect Human V1," (with a strikethrough in the title), a duet choreograped and performed by Marianne Kim and Will Bond in response to Jorgen Leth's film "The Perfect Human," offered a more surprising dance-theater portrait.

And Ballet Biarritz will perform two pieces (June 24-28) by Thierry Malandain, inspired by Velásquez portraits, Oscar Wilde's theater, and the music of Ravel and Falla, to which the dances are set.