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Review: Picnic needs dash of danger to spice up its flavor...as Alan, Whitney M. Ayers as Madge and Kyle Beck (back) as Hal in the Evergreen Players' "Picnic." (Ellen Nelson) Three things I know about "Picnic": 1. There has never been a less deserving play to win the Pulitzer Prize. 2. You... In this article: Picnic, Blanche DuBois, and William Inge |
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Wikipedia | November 03, 2009
Picnic (play)
...back porches. This allows for little to no set changes and is a bit ironic in the fact that the play is called Picnic, but there are no picnic scenes. The houses are typically shown as a bit rundown and as naturalistic as possible. In...
In this article: William Inge
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Denver Post Entertainment | October 30, 2009
Review: Winterling well-acted, but overly Pinteresque
...of "Saturday Night Live." Through Nov. 1. Backstage Theatre, 121 S. Ridge St., Breckenridge, 970-453-0199 or backstagetheatre.org "Picnic" William Inge's steamy Pulitzer-winning romance set in a small, strict Kansas town on Labor Day...
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Denver theater understudies play virtuoso second fiddle
...for 14 and older. Through Oct. 31. Presented by Colorado Homegrown Tales at 1310 Bannock St., 720-233-0811 or homegrowntales.com "Picnic" William Inge's steamy Pulitzer-winning romance set in a small, strict Kansas town on Labor Day weekend...
In this article: Denver, Colorado Springs, and Hamlet
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William Inge
...encumbered with strained sexual relations. In the early 1950s, he had a string of memorable Broadway productions, and one of these, ''Picnic '', earned him a Pulitzer Prize . With his portraits of small-town life and settings rooted in...
In this article: William Inge, Summer Brave, Broadway, Independence Community College, Kansas, and Bus Stop
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Chicago Tribune | October 09, 2009
Review: 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead'
...$25 at 773-327-5252 or www.griffintheatre.com. If you look at the non-musical Chicago shows with a lot of buzz so far this fall: "Picnic" at Writers Theatre, "Our Town" by The Hypocrites, "Edward II" at Chicago Shakespeare, and the Griffin...
In this article: Chicago, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, William Inge, Cirque du Soleil, and Jean Genet
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San Jose Mercury News | October 07, 2009
DVD: Paul Newman's best
...by the burg's patriarch (Orson Welles). The film also paired Newman with Joanne Woodward, whom he had met years earlier on stage in "Picnic"; she plays Welles' prim daughter. Newman and Woodward married in 1958. "Exodus": Newman made this...
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Connecticut Post | September 24, 2009
Newman biography goes into second printing, 17-DVD tribute set released
...respecting his privacy. Newman had his first taste of fame on stage in the mid-1950s when he appeared in the original productions of "Picnic" and "The Desperate Hours" on Broadway. The actor kept returning to the New York theater community...
In this article: Paul Newman, Shawn Levy, DVD, Sports Car Club of America, Jerry Seinfeld, Fox Home Entertainment, Tom Hanks, Broadway, and Westport
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Yahoo! News | August 19, 2009
'Picnic' Will Open Triad's Ninth Season in NC (Playbill)
...Playbill.com Kenneth Jones, playbill.com - Wed Aug 19, 4:55 pm ET Casting is set for Triad Stage's new production of William Inge's Picnic, directed by artistic director Preston Lane, in Greensboro, NC. The Pulitzer Prize-winning play...
In this article: North Carolina, William Inge, Labor Day, and Bus Stop
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L.A. Times - Travel | July 12, 2009
Williamstown Theatre Festival is a star attraction
...Adams Memorial Theater and, in the old "I've got a barn, let's put on a show" spirit, raised $9,000 for the first season, which included "Picnic," by William Inge and "The Rainmaker," by Richard N. Nash. Since then, the festival has...
In this article: Williamstown Theatre Festival, Williamstown, Williams College, Anton Chekhov, and Blythe Danner
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boston.com - Latest theater and arts news | April 13, 2009
'Picnic' serves up '50s nostalgia, but with an edge
...badly. What young actor today could talk about "dames" or call another kid a "goon" with a straight face? As the current production of "Picnic" at the Stoneham Theatre makes (sometimes painfully) clear, it's almost impossible to pull off.
In this article: William Inge, Tennessee Williams, Carson McCullers, and Facebook
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Picnic is a 1953 play by William Inge. The play premiered at the Music Box Theatre, Broadway on 19 February, 1953 in a production by the Theatre Guild, directed by Joshua Logan and ran for 477 performances. The cast included Ralph Meeker, Eileen Heckart, Arthur O'Connell, Janice Rule, Reta Shaw, Kim Stanley and Paul Newman. Inge received 1953 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the work, and Logan, the Tony Award for Best Director. The play received the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play of the season.
The play was Paul Newman's Broadway debut. An unknown at the time, Newman campaigned heavily for the leading role of Hal, but director Joshua Logan did not think Newman was physically large enough to convey the lead character's athletic attributes. As a result, Ralph Meeker was given the role of Hal opposite Janice Rule as Madge. Newman played Hal's former college roommate Alan Seymour while understudying the role of Hal. Newman eventually took over the lead role.
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