Cruise, Craig,go back to WWII Nov 25, 2008
Director Daldry and writer David Hare are the team that brought us The Hours and Winslet could face herself in the best actress Oscar category. This is the movie that the Weinstein Company for. (MSNBC -- News)
'Gethsemane': Putting white heat on politics Nov 19, 2008
Gethsemane," the new David Hare play at the National's Cottesloe auditorium through Feb. 24, offers up nine characters of varying degrees of juiciness and boasts a first-rate cast eminently capable of doing them justice. But what's the point of bothering to populate a play if virtually everyone at some point or other ends up sounding like the playwright? That may be an unavoidable pitfall faced by Hare as a direct result of his political and social engagement. Here's as cogent a thinker as there... (International Herald Tribune)
Companies spar over Skippack sports complex Aug 7, 2008
Advanced News Search. In the lawsuit filed with Montgomery County Court, Czop/Specter Inc., is suing three local companies it claims owes them money, including the developer, RNC Properties Inc. RNC Properties Inc. wants to build a sports complex on about 38 acres of land on the west side of Cressman Road, just north of Route 73. (Doylestown Central Bucks Life, PA)
Toby Cole - literary agent, KPFA broadcaster May 31, 2008
By the 1960s, Ms. Cole was increasingly representing playwrights, such as Barbara Garson, author of the anti-Vietnam-War satire "MacBird." She was Shepard's first agent, as he made the transition from his early one-acts to the full-length plays that established his fame, such as "The Tooth of Crime." She also represented novelist Saul Bellow, noted Brecht scholar Eric Bentley, influential European playwrights Peter Handke and Slawomir Mrozek and such new wave English writers as Edward Bond, John... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Crime)
I am of my tribe May 24, 2008
Dai Smith's Raymond Williams reveals a man without condescension or disdain, says David Hare ... David Hare's production of The Year of Magical Thinking is at the National Theatre, London, and at this year's Salzburg festival. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
The ire of the tiger Feb 2, 2008
Welcome to The Sydney Morning Herald. Restraint is now the challenge for the men who run the game, writes Dileep Premachandran. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Sport)
Generous spirit inspires Smith to a sizzler Feb 2, 2008
Does British left-wing playwright David Hare, really believe that opinions are not the measure of a man. 00001AB9. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Sport)
V8s a retirement home: Jones Feb 2, 2008
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Pink tide - gays to the rescue Feb 2, 2008
Welcome to The Sydney Morning Herald. Wave of interest gay lifesavers at Tamarama Beach, from left, Lise Benjamin, Niall Murtagh, Oyvind Andreassen, Nick Ferguson, Nick Maconachie, Craig Glazier and Michael Webster. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Arts council in England taketh (and giveth), leaving anger in its wake Jan 17, 2008
With letters of support pouring in, including one signed by Michael Frayn, Salman Rushdie, Tom Stoppard, Margaret Atwood and David Hare, the Bush is appealing the cut and will learn the council's final decision in February. It is a difficult situation: more than 700 arts organizations would actually see their subsidies rise under the Arts Council's plans, but the Bush joins 193 others art galleries, orchestras, literary groups and the like that face devastating cuts over the next three years. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Theatre audiences deserve the next Ravenhill and Kane Dec 13, 2007
But, despite the inevitable peaks and troughs, new theatre writing has created a mosaic portrait of the past half-century of British life that has not been bettered in any other medium, from the Royal Court dramatists of the late 50s (such as Osborne and Wesker), via state-of-England writers like David Hare and Howard Brenton in the 70s and the remarkable upsurge of women playwrights (including Caryl Churchill and Timberlake Wertenbaker) that followed, to the "in-yer-face" dramatists of the past... (Guardian Unlimited)
That's the best thing we've read all year Nov 25, 2007
Also in this section. Harry Potter's finale, the lives of Stalin, Brian Clough and Graham Greene, Ted Hughes's letters, a history of teenagers and not forgetting a tome on Welsh furniture. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Books special Nov 25, 2007
Also in this section. That's the best thing we've read all year. (Guardian Unlimited)
Sizwe Banzi Is Dead Nov 24, 2007
" A play doesn't need to be topical to be immediately relevant. A living playwright may well "be dead from the neck up", says Brook, while a play from another age and civilisation may be very much alive, he says. Under apartheid, he adds, Sophocles's Antigone was popular as a political play about tyranny and resistance. Likewise, a play about homelands and pass books - tools of a system that no longer exists - can resonate just as strongly in a different context. As Brook has delved more deeply... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Return to Indy's youth Oct 20, 2007
Directors who worked on the series included Newell, Terry Jones, David Hare and Bille August. 1. (Los Angeles Times)
Fall festivals can guide your travels Aug 11, 2007
Oscar-nominated screenwriters David Hare and Jim Sheridan are scheduled to attend. There also are master classes and seminars, and the Golden Swan awarded in six categories. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Travel)
- Richard Norton-Taylor on his new play about Iraq Apr 16, 2007
Latest theatre reviews. Should the prime minister be indicted for invading Iraq. (Guardian Unlimited)
Full Story Mar 24, 2007
TIMES TANTRUM ISN'T PLAY-FUL - Pagesix - New York Post Online Edition. Saturday, March 24, 2007 Last Update: 10:20 AM EDT. (New York Post -- Gossip)
- New York v London: the battle of the capitals Feb 10, 2007
British playwright David Hare has spent a lot of time in Manhattan recently, transferring Stuff Happens to Broadway and opening his new play The Vertical Hour there ... David Hare and Tom Stoppard both have shows on Broadway while Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was one of several West End musicals to make the transfer. (Guardian Unlimited)
What his journal holds Feb 3, 2007
Decker says he connected with the quote from British playwright David Hare: "The act of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.". Inside are the quotations and ideas that spark his opinion columns that he contributes regularly to the online magazine Charlotte Viewpoint and Pride Magazine. (Charlotte.com, NC -- Living)
Hatfield antique show again creates, rekindles memories Feb 1, 2007
Advanced News Search. Thursday, February 01. (Doylestown Central Bucks Life, PA)
Structure and Sadness Jan 9, 2007
Unlike the playwright David Hare, who collaborated with survivors of a railway accident for his play The Permanent Way, Guerin did not work with survivors or victims' families. "That was a big decision in the beginning for me," she says. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
