Carnegie Mellon University Currently celebrating its centennial, Carnegie Mellon is the oldest degree-granting conservatory in the country. Headed by Australian-born Peter Cooke, the drama program offers both Bfa and Mfa degrees to those accepted into the Pittsburgh-based program. “I would love the students to think beyond Broadway and Los Angeles, and understand that there is a big, brave world out there,” says Cooke, who encourages his students to explore by taking electives outside of drama, studying abroad, and being aware of current events from “Syria to the George Washington Bridge scandal.” “You can get very isolated as an artist and think that your world is the only world,” he says. “Everything is outside. All the influences, all the things you need to stimulate your art, are hanging on gallery walls, or are people on buses, or sailing to China.” Rutgers University Like Carnegie Mellon, Rutgers is a place that understands...
- 2/28/2014
- backstage.com
How to be Sherlock Holmes: The Many Faces of a Master Detective
Sunday 12th January, 10.00Pm, BBC Four- UK Broadcast
Narrated by Peter Wyngarde
For over a hundred years, more than 80 actors have put a varying face to the world’s greatest consulting detective - Sherlock Holmes. And many of them incorporated details - such as the curved pipe and the immortal line ‘Elementary, my dear Watson’ - that never featured in Conan Doyle’s original stories.
In charting the evolution of Sherlock on screen, from early silent films to the latest film and television versions, BBC Four’s Timeshift shows how our notion of Sherlock today is as much a creation of these various screen portrayals as of the stories themselves.
How to be Sherlock Holmes: The Many Faces of a Master Detective includes clips from feature films such as Billy Wilder's The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes...
Sunday 12th January, 10.00Pm, BBC Four- UK Broadcast
Narrated by Peter Wyngarde
For over a hundred years, more than 80 actors have put a varying face to the world’s greatest consulting detective - Sherlock Holmes. And many of them incorporated details - such as the curved pipe and the immortal line ‘Elementary, my dear Watson’ - that never featured in Conan Doyle’s original stories.
In charting the evolution of Sherlock on screen, from early silent films to the latest film and television versions, BBC Four’s Timeshift shows how our notion of Sherlock today is as much a creation of these various screen portrayals as of the stories themselves.
How to be Sherlock Holmes: The Many Faces of a Master Detective includes clips from feature films such as Billy Wilder's The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes...
- 1/9/2014
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
New York — There was plenty of applause heard during the Tony Awards – and perhaps no place louder than from as far away as Pittsburgh.
Six alumni from Carnegie Mellon University took home Tonys in five categories, a glittery haul that was both a school record and a huge source of pride for a theater department that turns 100 next year.
Billy Porter, Patina Miller and Judith Light each took home acting Tonys, while Ann Roth got one for best costume design, and partners Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhauer won for best lighting design of a play.
"We've had a bumper crop," said Peter Cooke, head of the university's school of drama. "I'm just delighted that they received rewards from their peers. It was just a terrific night."
The six wins means Carnegie Mellon took bragging rights from the better-known Yale University School of Drama, which had four Tony winners Sunday: costume designer William Ivey Long,...
Six alumni from Carnegie Mellon University took home Tonys in five categories, a glittery haul that was both a school record and a huge source of pride for a theater department that turns 100 next year.
Billy Porter, Patina Miller and Judith Light each took home acting Tonys, while Ann Roth got one for best costume design, and partners Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhauer won for best lighting design of a play.
"We've had a bumper crop," said Peter Cooke, head of the university's school of drama. "I'm just delighted that they received rewards from their peers. It was just a terrific night."
The six wins means Carnegie Mellon took bragging rights from the better-known Yale University School of Drama, which had four Tony winners Sunday: costume designer William Ivey Long,...
- 6/14/2013
- by AP
- Huffington Post
Harry Shearer shouldn't need any introduction for a well-traveled fan of comedy. Between The Simpsons, Christopher Guest films, the Le Show radio series, his "Saturday Night Live" work and, really, a vast number of other, varied projects, he's definitely an entertainer who's been around and seen a lot.
Shearer recently took a sidestep away from comedy to bring together a series of projects looking at post-Katrina New Orleans, most recently with his feature-length documentary "The Big Uneasy." You don't ever just stop "being funny" though, and the funnyman continues to ply his craft with laughter often following his every step.
We sat down to chat with Shearer recently about his work and his influences, what he finds funny and what his take is on the current state of comedy. You can check out what he had to say right here.
Let's start with a really easy question: what is funny to you?...
Shearer recently took a sidestep away from comedy to bring together a series of projects looking at post-Katrina New Orleans, most recently with his feature-length documentary "The Big Uneasy." You don't ever just stop "being funny" though, and the funnyman continues to ply his craft with laughter often following his every step.
We sat down to chat with Shearer recently about his work and his influences, what he finds funny and what his take is on the current state of comedy. You can check out what he had to say right here.
Let's start with a really easy question: what is funny to you?...
- 10/13/2011
- by IFC
- ifc.com
So, to the last day of the festival and I was actually feeling less tired as I managed to get some sleep. My main highlight I knew would be Re-Animator but I knew I would also be able to see some classic horror movies I’d not yet seen.
Let’s Scare Jessica to Death
This movie is the kind that offers more questions by the end that it answers, but for that reason it works even better. Jessica is almost certainly crazy, but strangely enough so is everybody else around her. Half between a ghost and a vampire story Jessica finds she has to work out just what is real and what is in her head but I’d argue one theory has to be everything is in her head because it’s all just that crazy. With its creepy atmosphere and insane environment this was a little gem...
Let’s Scare Jessica to Death
This movie is the kind that offers more questions by the end that it answers, but for that reason it works even better. Jessica is almost certainly crazy, but strangely enough so is everybody else around her. Half between a ghost and a vampire story Jessica finds she has to work out just what is real and what is in her head but I’d argue one theory has to be everything is in her head because it’s all just that crazy. With its creepy atmosphere and insane environment this was a little gem...
- 6/21/2011
- by Pzomb
- Nerdly
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