The Toronto Theatre Critics' Award just announced their 2014 winners. The awards are in their fourth year, and are voted upon by Toronto critics who represent five of the city's newspapers and weeklies The Globe and Mail J. Kelly Nestruck The Grid Martin Morrow Now Glenn Sumi The National Post Robert Cushman and the Toronto Star Richard Ouzounian. Shows which opened between June 2013 and May of 2014 were open for consideration.
- 5/22/2014
- by Alan Henry
- BroadwayWorld.com
Playwright whose anarchic works were filled with vividly imagined characters
Snoo Wilson, who has died suddenly aged 64, was in the vanguard of the young playwrights revolutionising British theatre in the two decades after 1968, but Snoo was a very different kettle of fish from the others. While David Edgar, Howard Brenton and David Hare were often overtly political, Snoo was a Marxist "tendance Groucho"; more subtly subversive and humorous. Sometimes the surface frivolity of his work made people think he wasn't serious, but he was always trying to mine under the surface of things, to allow the subconscious to drive his imagination. Snoo used fiercely imagined characters in comic and often savage works that nevertheless, in the best plays, demonstrated an insouciant knowledge of dramatic structure. He was not a believer in naturalism.
Throughout his career Snoo refused to accept that mere reality was all there was – if so, it was...
Snoo Wilson, who has died suddenly aged 64, was in the vanguard of the young playwrights revolutionising British theatre in the two decades after 1968, but Snoo was a very different kettle of fish from the others. While David Edgar, Howard Brenton and David Hare were often overtly political, Snoo was a Marxist "tendance Groucho"; more subtly subversive and humorous. Sometimes the surface frivolity of his work made people think he wasn't serious, but he was always trying to mine under the surface of things, to allow the subconscious to drive his imagination. Snoo used fiercely imagined characters in comic and often savage works that nevertheless, in the best plays, demonstrated an insouciant knowledge of dramatic structure. He was not a believer in naturalism.
Throughout his career Snoo refused to accept that mere reality was all there was – if so, it was...
- 7/5/2013
- by Dusty Hughes
- The Guardian - Film News
Herbert Marshall, Bette Davis, The Little Foxes The historic Warner Hollywood Studio, now known as The Lot, is to be torn down, reports the Los Angeles Times. In its place, current owner Cim Group will erect "glass-and-steel structures." Los Angeles doesn't have enough of those, does it? The powers-that-be in the city of West Hollywood have apparently given the go-ahead to Cim. First to go will be the Pickford Building, erected in 1927, and then the Goldwyn Building, erected in 1932. When all's done, that'll be the end of one more Los Angeles landmark. [Update: According to one source, not every building on The Lot will be torn down. I'll be updating this article as I get more detailed information.] Located at the corner of Santa Monica Boulevard and Formosa Avenue, the Warner Hollywood Studio was initially known as the Hampton Studios, and later as the Pickford-Fairbanks Studio, the United Artists Studios, and the Samuel Goldwyn Studio. Warner Bros. acquired it in the 1980s, but sold the property at the turn of the century. Currently, HBO's True Blood is shot there.
- 3/27/2012
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
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