Herb Gardner
Playwright
A Permanent Theater Festival on Puget Sound...established a program to nurture plays by writers ranging from the young Jon Robin Baitz to Arthur Miller, and his productions of Herb Gardner's "I'm Not Rappaport" and Wendy Wasserstein's "Heidi Chronicles" both of which transferred to... In this article: Seattle, August Wilson, Seattle Rep, Intiman Theater, Daniel Sullivan, Seattle Center, Heidi Chronicles, and Herb Gardner |
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Playbill.com | 4 days ago
Today in Theatre History: NOVEMBER 19
...in Ernest Thompson's drama, West Side Waltz, opposite Dorothy Loudon. The show runs 126 performances at the Barrymore Theatre. 1985 Herb Gardner's I'm Not Rappaport opens tonight at the Booth Theatre with a cast that includes Judd Hirsch...
In this article: Savion Glover, Broadway, Charles Boyer, Judd Hirsch, Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk, Ossie Davis, and New York City
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Wikipedia | October 28, 2009
A Thousand Clowns
...who is forced to conform to society in order to keep custody of the boy. The movie was adapted by Herb Gardner from his 1962 play, and directed by Fred Coe. Gardner based the Murray Burns character on his friend, Jean Shepherd, who is said...
In this article: A Thousand Clowns, Unemployment, Martin Balsam, and Academy Award
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JPost.com Front Page Top Stories | October 16, 2009
Love is in the air
...York City park bench as dramatic anchor for a series of memory scenes will doubtlessly remind many experienced theatergoers of Herb Gardner's 1984 hit play, "I'm Not Rappaport." Like Rappaport, "Chaim's Love Song" successfully strikes the...
In this article: New York City, Facebook, and Israel
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Daniel J. Sullivan
...own play, Inspecting Carol. Sullivan has forged successful working relationships with many prominent American playwrights. He directed Herb Gardner's Tony winning I'm Not Rappaport at Seattle Rep before staging it off-Broadway, on...
In this article: Daniel J. Sullivan, Broadway, Donald Margulies, Midsummer Night's Dream, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Julius Caesar, The Merry Wives of Windsor, and Wendy Wasserstein
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch | October 03, 2009
'Conversations With My Father' comes to New Jewish Theatre
Boston University drama professor Sidney Friedman wasn't familiar with this Herb Gardner show until Kathleen Sitzer - artistic director of New Jewish Theatre and a friend since Friedman's days at Washington University - urged him to take a...
In this article: Washington University, Boston University, and St. Louis
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Herb Gardner
...depth of love and understanding for all in this play. There are great life lessons to learn daily, which I find myself still doing. For Herb Gardner to have written this play in his early twenties is a miracle." Gardner's biggest commercial...
In this article: New York, Chimpanzee, Chicago Tribune, High School of Performing Arts, University of Nevada, Reno, Carnegie-Mellon University, Antioch College, and Rita Gardner
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The Goodbye People
1968 Playbill The Goodbye People is a play by Herb Gardner. The dramedy focuses on elderly Max Silverman, who is determined to reopen the Coney Island boardwalk hot dog stand he closed twenty-two years earlier for renovation, despite the...
In this article: Brenda Vaccaro, The Goodbye People, Rhinoplasty, Herschel Bernardi, and Judd Hirsch
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Denver Post Entertainment | June 23, 2009
Farwells deliver one for the aging **1/2
...and his wife, Deb Note-Farwell, have turned in since moving to Fort Collins in 2005. Jonathan Farwell plays 81-year-old Nat in Herb Gardner's bittersweet tale about a deteriorating, delusional old man who's railing like King Lear and...
In this article: I'm Not Rappaport and Colorado State University
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The Seattle Times | May 21, 2009
Theater review Anger makes A Thousand Clowns a more ambivalent play
...Burns played by Jason Robards in the 1960s; playing at the Seattle playhouse May 15-June 17, 2009; review by Misha Berson. By Herb Gardner, plays Tuesdays-Sundays through June 17 at Intiman Playhouse, Seattle Center; $10-$55 (206-269-1900...
In this article: A Thousand Clowns, Intiman Playhouse, Jason Robards Jr., and Seattle
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Has Thousand Clowns weathered the years along with those who loved it?
...old infatuation? Or wonder what you ever saw in that stranger? That's the trepidation some of us baby boomers may bring to the Herb Gardner comedy "A Thousand Clowns," opening today at Intiman Theatre. The play debuted in New York some...
In this article: A Thousand Clowns, Intiman Theatre, Broadway, New York, Jean Shepherd, and Jason Robards Jr.
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Herb Gardner (December 28, 1934 in Brooklyn - September 25, 2003) commercial artist, cartoonist, playwright, and screenwriter.
His cartoon characters, eventually seen in the comic strip The Nebbishes, largely forgotten now, were a huge hit in the 1950s and a mainstay of office wall decorations.
He is best known for his 1962 play A Thousand Clowns, which ran for two years. He received an Oscar nomination for the screenplay for the successful 1965 movie adaptation. The play was revived in 1996 and 2001. Both the 1962 play and the movie starred Jason Robards, Jr. as Murray Burns, a charming, out-of-work writer with Peter Pan syndrome. He is forced to choose between social conformity and the probable loss of custody of his eleven-year-old nephew. The Robards character was in part based on Gardner's friend at that time, humorist Jean Shepherd.
Gardner's biggest commercial success was the 1985 play I'm Not Rappaport, which ran for two years, won the Tony Award for Best Play, and became a 1996 movie. Other Broadway credits include The Goodbye People (1968), Thieves (1974), and Conversations with My Father (1992). He collaborated with Jule Styne on the ill-fated 1980 musical One Night Stand.
Gardner was the screenwriter and co-producer of the 1971 motion picture Who Is Harry Kellerman, and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? which starred Dustin Hoffman.
Gardner made a brief screen appearance as Rabbi Pierce in the 1987 motion picture Ishtar.
Gardner was married to actress Rita Gardner; the union ended in divorce. He is a graduate of Antioch College.
Gardener was a graduate of New York's High School of Performing Arts.
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