Herb Gardner
Playwright
Today in Theatre History: NOVEMBER 19...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 and Cleavon Little. The replacements later on in this show, which runs for... In this article: Herb Gardner, 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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JPost.com Front Page Top Stories | October 16, 2009
Love is in the air
...out of Chaim's life. The use of a New 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...
In this article: New York City, Facebook, and Israel
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The Seattle Times | May 19, 2009
Has Thousand Clowns weathered the years along with those who loved it?
...as a gag-writer for a children's TV program - like Robards' character, Murray. Critics and audiences loved the sardonic humor of Gardner's briny dialogue. (He would go on to write other Broadway successes, including "I'm Not Rappaport"...
In this article: A Thousand Clowns, Intiman Theatre, Broadway, New York, Jean Shepherd, and Jason Robards Jr.
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Wikipedia | September 21, 2009
I'm Not Rappaport
I'm Not Rappaport I'm Not Rappaport is a play by Herb Gardner originally staged by Seattle Repertory Theatre in 1984. Its Broadway debut production, directed by Daniel Sullivan , starring Judd Hirsch, Cleavon Little, Jace Alexander, and...
In this article: I'm Not Rappaport, Judd Hirsch, Daniel Sullivan, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Peter Friedman, Craig T. Nelson, Walter Matthau, and Martha Plimpton
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ACT Theatre adds Judd Hirsch to season
Hirsch is well-known to Seattle audiences, thanks to his lead performances at Seattle Repertory Theatre in two plays by Herb Gardner: "I'm Not Rappaport" and "Conversations with My Father," both of which later earned him Tony Awards on...
In this article: Judd Hirsch, Seattle, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Conversations with My Father, August: Osage County, and Tom Stoppard
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Herb Gardner
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 success was the 1985 play I'm Not Rappaport, which...
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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Heather Goldenhersh
...born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in St. Louis . A graduate of Juilliard , Goldenhersh made her film debut in 1996 with her role in an adaptation of Herb Gardner's I'm Not Rappaport. From then on she appeared in films such as Swallowed,...
In this article: Heather Goldenhersh, The Class, Law & Order franchise, Doubt, Juilliard, The Great Gatsby, I'm Not Rappaport, and The Believer
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Daniel J. Sullivan
...Broadway, in London's West End, and the United States national tour. He reteamed with Gardner to stage Conversations with My Father in Seattle, New York City, and Los Angeles. His first association with Wendy Wasserstein was the Pulitzer Prize...
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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Cleavon Little
...FOX sitcom ''True Colors ''. In 1988, Little returned to Broadway to appear as Midge in Herb Gardner's Tony Award winning play I'm Not Rappaport with Judd Hirsch, Jace Alexander and Mercedes Ruehl. In 1991, Little was cast as a civil...
In this article: Richard Pryor, Cleavon Little, Juilliard, Murray Schisgal, Dustin Hoffman, Blazing Saddles, Ronald Ribman, and Wendell Scott
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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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