Sentence examples for supported performers from inspiring English sources

Chinese emperors, Korean kings, and Japanese emperors and military rulers (shoguns) all supported performers at their courts.

In later years, as an ?nence grise among performance artists, Mr. Murrin wrote regularly about alternative theater for the magazine Paper and supported performers who, like him, inhabited the theatrical fringe.

His shrink is played by Carrie Brownstein, one of a handful of stellar supporting performers sprinkled into the movie like macadamia nuts in a cookie.

With his silver hair, craggy face, well-tended moustache and flattened Chicago vowels, Farina, who has died of a blood clot on a lung, became one of the most readily identified supporting performers of the past 30 years.

All season long, the Bagger has been returning to scene-stealers, those supporting performers who may not be stars on the marquee but are the ones we're still talking about long after the film is over.

Her debut was a success, and soon she joined the Italian Actors Union, an organization founded in 1937 to support performers for New York's Italian-language theandradio raudiencesences.

Marra's songwriting was rooted in Scottish life, and he found an enthusiastic audience within and beyond the folk music scene, which led to him supporting performers such as Van Morrison, Barbara Dickson and Deacon Blue.

Pachigam and its elders, and their dynamic and dauntless wives, and the rich array of supporting performers, and the sensations of a childhood spent in the high meadows and narrow valleys, among clear lakes and rivers of snowmelt, under the aspect of shining glaciers and timeless traditions, are evoked with an affection bestowed on few other of the novel's venues.

He's supported by a 24-piece orchestra whittled down hour by hour, a posse of "dandy minions" who intercede between Mac and the audience, and a formidably talented collection of supporting performers, including the rarely clothed James "Tigger!" Ferguson, whose naked prison sex scene ensures that Connie Francis's Where the Boys Are will never be heard quite the same way again.

However, at time when cultural prizes are rightly under scrutiny for being white weddings, it's upsetting that no actor in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom – from the magnificent lead Sharon D Clarke to supporting performers such as OT Fagbenie and Lucian Msamati – was shortlisted.

Supporting performers in the new season will include Nick Offerman, Brad Garrett, Kieran Culkin, Bokeem Woodbine, Jeffrey Donovan..