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  John Patrick Shanley, Q&A Interview: Broadway.com Buzz
With absolute certainty, the most celebrated new American play of the season is Bronx-born John Patrick Shanley's Doubt.
It transferred to the Walter Kerr Theatre this spring (marking Shanley's Broadway debut) and promptly won the Pulitzer Prize.
Despite his demanding schedule, Shanley made time to discuss with us the origin, process and phenomenon of Doubt, the state of the Catholic church, and his hopes for the musical version of Moonstruck.
www.broadway.com /gen/Buzz_Story.aspx?ci=513195   (698 words)

  
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Playwright John Patrick Shanley, educated in Catholic schools in the Bronx, could hardly ignore the recent revelations of years of widespread abuse of children by Catholic priests.
Shanley's dialogue is perfect, with cadences he must have remembered from his childhood.
Shanley paints Sister Aloysius' suspicions as the building blocks of a mystery.
www.nytheatre-wire.com /lk050510t.htm   (456 words)

  
 John Patrick Shanley Named Distinguished Artist-in-Residence by The New School for Drama: Theater News on ...
John Patrick Shanley Named Distinguished Artist-in-Residence by The New School for Drama
John Patrick Shanley will be The New School for Drama's Distinguished Artist-in-Residence for 2006-2007.
"John Patrick Shanley is an inspiration to up-and-coming playwrights," said Robert LuPone, director of The New School for Drama.
www.theatermania.com /content/news.cfm/story/8687   (392 words)

  
 John Patrick Shanley : Quatre Chiens sur un Os
John Patrick Shanley : Quatre Chiens sur un Os Auteur : John Patrick Shanley
John Patrick Shanley a écrit cette pièce en 6 jours.
John Patrick Shanley est aussi le scénariste de plusieurs films dont "Moonstuck" ("Eclair de Lune") pour lequel il a remporté l'Oscar du meilleur scénario.
www.quatrechienssurunos.com /auteur.html   (299 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Doubt: A Parable: Books: John Patrick Shanley
Chosen as the best play of the year by over 10 newspapers and magazines, Doubt is set in a Bronx Catholic school in 1964, where a strong-minded woman wrestles with conscience and uncertainty as she is faced with concerns about one of her male colleagues.
John Patrick Shanley's script for the play Doubt is a masterpiece.
Shanley is one of America's top playwrights and screen writers; and he does his best work since "Moonstruck.
www.amazon.com /Doubt-Parable-John-Patrick-Shanley/dp/1559362766   (0 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - John Patrick Shanley, relaxed and inspired   (Site not responding. Last check: )
But Shanley modeled Doubt's set after a Bronx parochial school he attended and based characters on those he met there, notably nuns, to whom he dedicated the play.
Shanley doesn't believe much progress was made later in the century under Pope John Paul II.
Shanley is planning a reading soon for the second in his series of "hierarchy plays," which Doubt kicked off, and is also in discussions to direct Doubt as a feature film.
www.usatoday.com /life/theater/news/2005-06-02-shanley_x.htm   (663 words)

  
 John Patrick Shanley
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 John Patrick Shanley
Psychopathia Sexualis, his newest play, was previously produced at the Seattle Repertory Theatre and the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles and his recent one-acts Missing/Kissing were presented at Primary Stages in New York and in the Humana Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville.
Shanley's comedy Four Dogs and a Bone was produced by Manhattan Theatre Club, and subsequently enjoyed a commercial run at the Lucille Lortel Theatre.
Shanley wrote the screenplay for Five Corners, which won a Special Jury Prize (screenplay) at the Barcelona Film Festival.
www.stage-door.org /authors/shanley.htm   (223 words)

  
 John Patrick Shanley Information
John Patrick Shanley (born in 1950) is a playwright from the Bronx.
For his script for the 1987 film, Moonstruck, Shanley won the Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay and the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen.
In 2005, John Patrick Shanley's play Doubt was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Drama Desk Award and Tony Award for Best Play.
www.bookrags.com /wiki/John_Patrick_Shanley   (240 words)

  
 The New York Times > Magazine > The Confessions of John Patrick Shanley
Shanley (top) directing Jayne Haynes and John Turturro in his play "Italian American Reconciliation" in 1988, the year he won his Oscar for "Moonstruck."; After the eclipse of "Joe Versus the Volcano"; (above, 1990), he renewed his commitment to the theater.
They also knew that it was Shanley's tormented relationship with his mother that became the template for many of his physically and emotionally damaged or maimed male characters (remember Cage's wooden hand?) who must face down a profusion of often indifferent, always ambivalent females.
Shanley has since found increasingly larger canvases for his rage: in last year's political allegory, ''Dirty Story,'' he portrayed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a sadomasochistic relationship between a man and a woman.
www.nytimes.com /2004/11/07/magazine/07SHANLEY.html?ei=5088&en=60a8e497cc5941f0&ex=1257570000&adxnnl=6&partner=rssnyt&adxnnlx=1156809710-KJ4pZlSA4Wcge96e3jWRHg   (764 words)

  
 Online NewsHour: Pulitzer Prize-winning Drama Tackles Sex Abuse Issue -- May 2, 2005
JOHN PATRICK SHANLEY: In days gone by, doubt was the province of the wise.
JOHN PATRICK SHANLEY: The last act of the play takes place after the play is over, when people walk out that door and decide or don't decide what the play's about and who did what.
JOHN PATRICK SHANLEY: Well, I think one of the things that makes a story work is that when you're writing it, you're in it and you're as far along in it as the audience is and you don't know what's going to happen.
www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/entertainment/jan-june05/doubt_5-2.html   (1317 words)

  
 Playbill News: An Evening with John Patrick Shanley Set for March 2007
Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright John Patrick Shanley will be featured in an evening at Symphony Space March 21, 2007.
John Patrick Shanley's many plays include Defiance, Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, Where's My Money, Cellini, Dirty Story, Beggars in the House of Plenty and Four Dogs and a Bone.
Shanley was recently named the Distinguished Artist-in-Residence at The New School for Drama.
www.playbill.com /news/article/101787.html   (300 words)

  
 Doubt - John Patrick Shanley
Doubt is a spellbinding and expertly written new play from John Patrick Shanley.
Their confrontations, especially one fireworks-laden scene late in the play, keep the audience on the edge of its seat.
But don’t expect a clear resolution to the play; Shanley has slyly and deliberately crafted it to be ambiguous.
www.culturevulture.net /Theater/Doubt.htm   (585 words)

  
 Chris Cooper To Star in Premier of New John Patrick Shanley Play, “Chain of Command” :: Vassar College News ...
Cooper was most recently seen in John Sayle's feature film Silver City and the 2003 Academy Award nominated film Seabiscuit (which earned Cooper an individual Screen Actors Guild Nomination).
John Patrick Shanley is the recipient of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony, Drama Desk, and Obie Awards for his play DOUBT.
For Moonstruck, Shanley won both an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and a Writers Guild Award, and his screenplay for Five Corners won a Special Jury Prize at the Barcelona Film Festival.
collegerelations.vassar.edu /2005/1890   (720 words)

  
 Buy.com - Joe vs. the Volcano : DVD : Tom Hanks : Meg Ryan : Lloyd Bridges : John Patrick Shanley : Warner
Buy.com - Joe vs. the Volcano : DVD : Tom Hanks : Meg Ryan : Lloyd Bridges : John Patrick Shanley : Warner
Laughs erupt when Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan fall in love and fall in lava in Joe Versus the Volcano, a colorful, stylish laughquake written and directed by Moonstruck Oscar winner John Patrick Shanley.
As Joe, Hanks adds to his phenomenal string of successes that includes, Splash, Big and Turner & Hooch.
www.buy.com /prod/joe_vs_the_volcano/q/loc/322/40164908.html   (515 words)

  
 Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, adapted for contemporary audiences by Lewis John Carlino
The Chosen by Aaron Posner and Chaim Potok, from the novel by Chaim Potok
Missing/Kissing by John Patrick Shanley (Includes Missing Marisa; Kissing Christine)
www.dramatists.com /text/nowinprint.html   (2137 words)

  
 John Patrick Shanley - complete guide to the Playwright and Plays
Meanwhile, it turns out that the married man Celeste is having an affair with is Henry's idol, Sidney, a divorce lawyer with a pet theory that one partner in every marriage will be unfaithful, so it might as well be you.
vivisects the institution of marriage with Shanley's inimitable razor-sharp wit.
As the play ends, the three are hopeful about better times ahead but also painfully aware that the brittle, competitive Manhattan lifestyle disappoints as quickly as it rewards.
www.doollee.com /PlaywrightsS/shanley-john-patrick.html   (3341 words)

  
 Production Archive: Italian American Reconciliation by John Patrick Shanley
John Patrick Shanleys' subtle comedy examines these love-struck characters, coming to the conclusion that success in life...
Miners Alley Playhouse presents the regional premiere of Shanleys' Italian American Reconciliation.
Shanleys' script mixes a classical love story with hints of Comedia del'Arte and places the tale in contemporary Little Italy of New York City to provoke a "sort of gritty, downtown version of a sparkling drawing-room comedy."
www.minersalley.com /shows/italian/iar_hist.htm   (142 words)

  
 John Patrick Shanley - Biography - Moviefone
Bronx native John Patrick Shanley studied educational theater at N.Y.U. before making a name for himself as a writer with his first published play Danny and the Deep Blue Sea.
A strange romantic comedy starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, the film is regarded as a box-office failure, but its uniqueness has found its way into the hearts of many fans.
Sticking with writing, Shanley then adapted the book by Piers Paul Read for the adventure drama Alive, based on a real plane crash in the Andes mountains.
movies.aol.com /celebrity/john-patrick-shanley/110969/biography   (250 words)

  
 John Patrick Shanley Biography at Hollywood.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
A New York playwright, John Patrick Shanley earned almost overnight recognition with his play, "Danny and the Deep Blue Sea" in 1984.
After interrupting his college education with a tour of duty in the Marines, Shanley obtained his degree in educational theater.
Previously, Shanley began to find outlets for his stage work, which often revolves around working-class, ethnic concerns in the early 1980s.
www.hollywood.com /celebritydetail/John_Patrick_Shanley/191032   (687 words)

  
 John Patrick Shanley   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Earned almost overnight recognition for his first play, Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, and has continued to win acclaim for his stage work, which often revolves around working-class, ethnic concerns.
Shanley made his Hollywood reputation with MOONSTRUCK (1987), a deftly constructed romantic comedy set in Brooklyn's Italian-American community.
The film won three Oscars (one for best original screenplay) and was a huge box-office success.
theoscarsite.com /whoswho7/shanley_j.htm   (152 words)

  
 Emilia Romagna Teatro Fondazione, teatro stabile pubblico.
E ancora lo straordinario e incantato spettacolo di Slava, uno dei più grandi clown del mondo, Slava’s Snowshow e il ritorno di Arlecchino servitore di due padroni nella memorabile edizione di Giorgio Strehler con Ferruccio Soleri ancora protagonista.
Per la prima volta a teatro con un testo di John Patrick Shanley (premio Pulitzer 2005) Stefano Accorsi sarà il protagonista dello spettacolo Il dubbio diretto da Sergio Castellitto.
Ritorna al Teatro Storchi Eros Pagni con Il mercante di Venezia di William Shakespeare per la regia di Luca De Fusco, mentre La concessione del telefono di Andrea Camilleri e Giuseppe Dipasquale, che ne firma anche la regia, sarà portato in scena da Francesco Paoloantoni, Tuccio Musumeci e Pippo Pattavina.
www.emiliaromagnateatro.com   (590 words)

  
 John Patrick Shanley Photos (BroadwayWorld.com)
From: Shanley & Kreiger Collaborate on 'Musicale' for LAByrinth
Caption: Stephen Lang, John Patrick Shanley & Margaret Colin
Caption: Adriane Lenox, John Patrick Shanley, Paula Devicq
broadwayworld.com /galleryperson.cfm?personid=8249   (416 words)

  
 2005 Tony Awards Q&A: John Patrick Shanley (BroadwayWorld.com)
Doubt is author John Patrick Shanley's first play to be produced on Broadway, and is nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play.
His other theatrical credits include Sailor's Song, Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, Cellini, Savage in Limbo, the dreamer examines his pillow, Beggars in the House of Plenty, Welcome to the Moon, Four Dogs and a Bone, Italian American Reconciliation, Missing/Kissing and The Big Funk.
For film, Shanley’s many credits include winning the 1988 Oscar for his screenplay of Moonstruck.
www.broadwayworld.com /viewcolumn.cfm?colid=3414   (790 words)

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