Providence Journal (Free subscription) | yesterday
SOUTH KINGSTOWN — Do you still have stray Newport Pell Bridge tokens rattling around in your car? If so, the obsolete tokens can still be of use.The Johnnycake Center of Peace Dale is asking Rhode Islanders to donate their remaining tokens by dropping them in marked receptacles at businesses throughout South County.The cash value — 83 cents — will go to the center, which runs a soup kitchen...
Show Tracker (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
... Oscar nominee Meryl Streep proves a hard habit to break as an imperious nun in writer-director John Patrick Shanley's 2008 adaptation of his Broadway hit "Doubt." Philip Seymour Hoffman (below with Streep), Amy Adams and Viola Davis also star. (Starz, 9 p.m.) A WOMAN'S 'PLACE' While the recently axed Ashley Simpson will soon be headed back from Wentz she came, the new "Melrose...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Playwright John Patrick Shanley referring to Tennessee Williams as a "gorgeous unstoppable beast," recounted an incident in a restaurant when he, a budding writer,...
Gossip Central (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Playwright John Patrick Shanley referring to Tennessee Williams as a “gorgeous unstoppable beast,” recounted an incident in a restaurant when he, a budding writer, maybe thirty feet away from the master dramatist, could not bring himself to say hello. Such...
LAist (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
... through photographs by Diane Meyer and accompanying narratives. Through December 11th. THEATRE John Patrick Shanley's Where's My Money? continues its run at the Open Fist Theatre. Directed by Colin Walker , the dark comedy explores the lengths that men will go to for sex and further examines the limits of what women will do for money. Wednesday and Thursday shows at 8 PM, through...
we move to canada (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
... Streep was and how great PSH was, and of course that is true. But the real star of this movie is John Patrick Shanley , who wrote the play, wrote the screenplay and directed the movie. Streep and Hoffman are amazing, but their roles are so complex and so subtle; they had so much to work with. It's as fine a piece of writing as you'll ever see on screen. Doubt was running on...
HarbourLiving.ca (Free subscription) | 17/10/2009
This Pulitzer Prize winning play has yet to be produced on the island. Inspired by the search for weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East, playwright John Patrick Shanley used his Catholic elementary school as the model for his parable of doubt. While the characters in the play are not specifically aligned with real-life people, Shanley did model the kind and innocent...
HarbourLiving.ca (Free subscription) | 15/10/2009
This Pulitzer Prize winning play has yet to be produced on the island. Inspired by the search for weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East, playwright John Patrick Shanley used his Catholic elementary school as the model for his parable of doubt. While the characters in the play are not specifically aligned with real-life people, Shanley did model the kind and innocent...
