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Peter Shaffer

Peter Shaffer

Peter Shaffer

One of the foremost playwrights of our time, Peter Shaffer has had seven plays produced on Broadway. He has won every major dramatic award as well as an Academy Award for the screenplay adaptation of his play Amadeus.

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Girl.com.au, May 4, 2012
...from NYU in 2010. He last appeared on stage in the 2010 Guild Hall (East Hampton) production of Peter Shaffer's Equus," directed by Tony Walton. Other stage includes the Roundabout Theatre Company's 2006 production of Joe Orton's Entertaining Mr. Sloane,...
Zimbio, April 28, 2012
...Daniel Radcliffe BiographyBiography:The boy who won one of the most coveted roles in film history, young Daniel Radcliffe beat out legions of aspiring bespectacled mini-wizards to fill the shoes of author J.K. Rowling's junior sorcerer Harry Potter in...
Broadway World, April 19, 2012
...Amanpour, Marcia Gay Harden, John Kander, Andy Rooney, Kenneth Branagh, Dick Cavett, Frank Oz, Dr. Ruth 5 times, Peter Shaffer, The Amazing Kreskin, Celeste Holm, Victoria Jackson, TR Knight, Dan Lauria, David Brooks, Scott Adsit, and Tina Louise....
Individual.com, February 16, 2012
...KUMD-FM. "That is certainly fiction that came along many decades later." The 1981 Tony Award-winning play by Peter Shaffer presents a tale of dueling 18th-century Viennese frenemies: Salieri, an evil mastermind who was talented but not gifted, versus...
Book Reporter, January 13, 2012
...LAST ARIA, presents the composer as playful, but also intellectually and politically sophisticated. Still, he does echo the Peter Shaffer play in turning Mozart’s death into a murder mystery. In Amadeus, rival composer Salieri engineers his nemesis’s...
Korea Times, December 7, 2011
...The Korea National Contemporary Dance Company will restage its 1999 rendition of Peter Shaffer’s “Equus” through Saturday at the Baik-Chang Theater, Seoul. / Courtesy of KNCDC Nat’l Contemporary Dance Company showcases ‘Equus’ The Korea...
Norwalk Citizen News, October 31, 2011
...s Tom Petrone will portray Emperor Joseph II in the Town Players of New Canaan's production of Peter Shaffer's Tony award-winning play "Amadeus," which opens Nov. 4 and runs through Nov 19.at the Powerhouse Theatre in Waveny Park. He will be joined by...
Wiltshire Gazette and Herald, February 29, 2012
...to carry off the strange tale of Lettice’s and Lotte’s friendship, falling out and eventual reconciliation. Peter Shaffer wrote it for Maggie Smith, who you can hear in every acid put-down from Lotte. Margaret Tyzack’s Lettice would have been more...
Wiltshire Times, February 29, 2012
...to carry off the strange tale of Lettice’s and Lotte’s friendship, falling out and eventual reconciliation. Peter Shaffer wrote it for Maggie Smith, who you can hear in every acid put-down from Lotte. Margaret Tyzack’s Lettice would have been more...
Chicago Daily Herald, February 29, 2012
...During March, Independent Players also will present two other productions, one, which IP is billing as Two by Peter Shaffer, consists of two one-act plays ? The Private Ear and The Public Eye, which are often produced in tandem. These two plays will run...
Calne Gazette & Herald, February 29, 2012
...to carry off the strange tale of Lettice’s and Lotte’s friendship, falling out and eventual reconciliation. Peter Shaffer wrote it for Maggie Smith, who you can hear in every acid put-down from Lotte. Margaret Tyzack’s Lettice would have been more...
The Express Tribune, February 28, 2012
...forward to. I just hope the audience likes it.” Sunil Shankar’s “Equus”: “This production originally written by Peter Shaffer is considered one of the most controversial plays of all time. It’s a bit hard to explain its genre but you can...
Henley Standard, February 27, 2012
...of the theatre and giving them new life by injecting its own particular stamp of quality and innovation. Peter Shaffer’s eloquent comedy Lettice & Lovage is the latest piece to benefit from the Watermill’s attention, and its production starring...
Whatsonstage.com, February 27, 2012
...Peter Shaffer wrote what he called this "very English piece" in 1987 for Maggie Smith and in 1990 both her Lettice and Margaret Tyzack's Lotte won Tonys on Broadway. Lettice...