The intrepid downtown company Elevator Repair Service returns to the Public with "Gatz," its rollicking, riveting six-hour word-for-word staged dramatization of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel, "The Great Gatsby".
The intrepid downtown company Elevator Repair Service returns to the Public with "Gatz," its rollicking, riveting six-hour word-for-word staged dramatization of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel, "The Great Gatsby". Scott Shepherd, who has memorized the entire book, revives his role as Nick.
Historical fiction tends to be a challenge for naturalistic stage dramatization, and this earnest work, commissioned by the Irish Rep, has the overstuffed, page-bound feel of a by-the-numbers mini-series.
He achieved some success as an actor; he and Tom starred as prison guards in a well-received stage dramatization of the Frank O'Connor story "Guests of the Nation," and he appeared on Broadway in a short-lived production of James Costigan's "Little Moon of Alban".
A strong cast under Moises Kaufman's studied and well-paced direction brings a fresh vision and new life to Ruth and Augustus Goetz's 65-year-old stage dramatization of Henry James's novel Washington Square.
"A Raisin in the Sun" is one of the landmark plays in American theater history -- one of the first and finest stage dramatizations of black life in post-World War II America.
Many plays first staged as jingxi are dramatizations of the war novel Sanguo zhi yanyi (Romance of the Three Kingdoms), written in the 14th century by Lo Guanzhong.
The rooms where we lived, where we staged our meals and ceremonies and self-dramatizations and where some of us went from infancy to adolescence, rooms and stairways so imbued with our daily motions that their irregularities were bred into our bones and could be traversed in the dark, do not seem to mourn, as I had thought they would.
Closer to home, the Melbourne Theater Company has just staged the premiere of "Rupert," a cabaret-style dramatization of Mr. Murdoch's life by one of Australia's best-known playwrights, David Williamson.
THE ARTS Because of an editing error, a picture caption on Wednesday with an article about "Rupert," a cabaret-style dramatization of the life of Rupert Murdoch staged by the Melbourne Theater Company in Australia, misstated the setting of the scene shown in which the character playing Mr. Murdoch is about to be hit by a shaving-cream pie.
Clarke's dramatization of Browning's Pippa Passes was staged in Boston in 1899, and Porter's version of his Return of the Druses was done in 1902.
