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PBS Hollywood Presents: Collected Stories - Producer ...
PBS Online — The play of Collected Stories had its first production at the South Coast Repertory where it won the L.A. Drama Circle Award. Then it went on to the Manhattan Theater Club in New York, with Debra Messing in the role of Lisa. That's where Gil ...More…
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PBS Hollywood Presents: Collected Stories - Director Gil ...
PBS Online — I first saw Collected Stories in New York, at the Manhattan Theater Club, and I was terribly moved by it, by its question of who owns your life, of who has the right to tell your story. I was very excited about getting it to the Geffen Playhouse ...More…
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PBS Hollywood Presents: Collected Stories - Lead Actor ...
PBS Online — Collected Stories originally came to me five years ago. I was introduced to Donald Margulies, the playwright, and he asked me to workshop the piece with the Dramaturg at the South Coast Repertory Theater [in Costa Mesa, California]. I thought the ...More…
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PBS Hollywood Presents: Collected Stories - On Writing - ...
PBS Online — There was a literary imbroglio raging in the press that involved the novelist David Leavitt who had written a novel that used elements of the autobiography of Sir Steven Spender. This became a cause célèbre in literary circles and I followed it ...More…
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PBS Hollywood Presents: Collected Stories - Glossary
PBS Online — A light intended to use a standard screw in light bulb with an aluminum reflector and a clamp built in so it can be clipped to a table, bedpost, etc. The number assigned to a can of film that indicates its sensitivity to light. Also known as film ...More…
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PBS Hollywood Presents: Collected Stories - Production ...
PBS Online — What do the people behind the scenes of a Hollywood production actually do? What are the things that are important to them? What are their backgrounds? Learn about the creators of Collected Stories by clicking on each person's silhouette ...More…
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PBS Hollywood Presents: Collected Stories - In-Depth ...
PBS Online — Discover how Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Donald Margulies conjured two memorable characters that allowed him to tackle the themes of lost love, betrayal, aging and generation gaps. Delmore Schwartz was rendered by Donald Margulies as a ...More…
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PBS Hollywood Presents: Collected Stories - On Writing - ...
PBS Online — In 1993, an American novelist named David Leavitt published a book that drew its inspiration from a man its young author had never met. Stephen Spender, the poet laureate of England, was in his eighties and nearing the end of life when his and ...More…
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PBS Hollywood Presents: Collected Stories - Lead Actor ...
PBS Online — The play is one of the very few pieces of great dramatic and comic writing that I have read in a long, long time. I was drawn to it because of the power of the writing, which gives me the actor a chance to explore many facets of myself. I had ...More…
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PBS Hollywood Presents: Collected Stories - About - ...
PBS Online — A respected short-story writer and teacher in her mid-fifties, Ruth Steiner has carved out a comfortable life for herself in a Greenwich Village apartment she has occupied for decades. Lisa Morrison is a callow yet talented 26-year-old graduate ...More…
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The Source
PBS Online — "We try to tell the story so it's honest and real, and leave out the parts that don't have a specific purpose." "Donald Margulies understands about the loss of yourself as you get older, as you gain more wisdom." "One of ...More…
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PBS HOLLYWOOD PRESENTS,
PBS Online — airs on PBS Wednesday, October 6, 2004, 9:00-10:30 p.m. ET. The presentation consists of two original teleplays involving New York City police who work in an Upper West Side precinct. The project stars Oscar-winner Richard Dreyfuss (The Goodbye ...More…