Sentence examples for skylight from inspiring English sources

His living room was simple, full of books, pictures, paintings, a TV set, all illuminated softly by the skylight.

His recent West End performance opposite Carey Mulligan in a revival of David Hare's Skylight won him much acclaim, and he enjoyed doing it so much he is about to head off to Broadway to do it again, for a four-month run.

Skylight is shortlisted in seven categories in the 69th Tony awards including best revival while all three actors, Mulligan, Nighy and Matt Beard, secured nominations in the acting categories.

Skylight, which will preview at the Wyndham's theatre in June, will also mark a double return for Bill Nighy.

Skylight opens on Broadway on 2 April.

The main theatre, with space now for around 340 spectators, is a richly decorated triumph of gold-tinted walls, painted hieroglyphs, floral motifs and friezes, and an art-deco skylight.

But some, such as the fine mirror sculptures, are certainly enhanced by it: seeing the gallery's gilding and skylight reflected upside-down in these pieces adds to their enjoyment.

This idea was given credence after a sailor in California sued an airline after blue ice crashed through the skylight of his boat.

TIME was, and it wasn't that long ago, when you knew what you needed for a Broadway hit: one snob hit play per season usually from England (Sir Tom Stoppard's "The Real Thing", say, or Sir David Hare's "Skylight")—and a musical, again originating more often than not in London.But as if to chime with a new century, Broadway in the past few years seems quietly to have broken its own rules.

Term-time found him in Boston and Chicago, where he taught the European novel; summers took him to Vermont, where he lay in the bath and studied the stars through a skylight.

He recently directed two plays in London, David Hare's "Skylight" and Peter Morgan's "The Audience", which are transferring to Broadway this spring.