What was the name of a play written by a Czech-born British playwright and produced by Doris Cole Abrahams that won a Tony Award for?
Travesties
Doris Abrahams Tom Stoppard
Professional Foul is a television play written by Czech-born, British playwright Tom Stoppard.  It was broadcast on 21 September 1977 in BBC 2's "Play of the Week" series.
Gone Too Far!  is a 2007 play written by British playwright Bola Agbaje.  Drawing on Agbaje's ethnic Nigerian background and London upbringing, the play focuses on one day in the lives of several young black people who live in a London council estate.  The play explores the numerous tensions and conflicts between the various identities - Nigerian, British, West Indian, black, white, mixed-race and Asian.  The play premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in February 2007 and received generally positive reviews.
The Homecoming is a two-act play written in 1964 by Nobel laureate Harold Pinter and it was first published in 1965.  Its premières in London (1965) and New York (1967) were both directed by Sir Peter Hall and starred Pinter's first wife, Vivien Merchant, as Ruth.  The original Broadway production won the 1967 Tony Award for Best Play.  Its 40th-anniversary Broadway production at the Cort Theatre was nominated for a 2008 Tony Award for "Best Revival of a Play".
Rebecca Lenkiewicz (born 1968) is a British playwright.  She is best known as the author of "Her Naked Skin" (2008), which was the first original play written by a living female playwright to be performed on the Olivier stage of the Royal National Theatre.
Death of a Salesman is a 1949 play written by American playwright Arthur Miller.  It was the recipient of the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for Best Play.  The play premiered on Broadway in February 1949, running for 742 performances, and has been revived on Broadway four times, winning three Tony Awards for Best Revival.  It is widely considered to be one of the greatest plays of the 20th century.
Doris Cole Abrahams (January 29, 1921 – February 17, 2009) was a theater producer who won two Tony Awards for Peter Shaffer's play "Equus" and Tom Stoppard's "Travesties".
About Time is a theatrical play written by playwright Tom Cole that debuted in 1990 Off Broadway at the John Houseman Theater.  This two-character play featured an elderly couple, identified only as Old Man and Old Woman, chatting and arguing about matters around the subject of death.  Directed by Tony Giordano, the play original production starred James Whitmore and Audra Lindley, described in a Mel Gussow review as an "endearing couple" who "act their way through and around the slight play that Tom Cole has created for them".  Lindley and Whitmore had been married to each other and divorced in 1979, yet continued to perform with each other on stage.
Nick Stafford (born 1959 in Staffordshire) is a British playwright and writer.  He is best known for writing the stage adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's novel "War Horse", which garnered him a Laurence Olivier Award nomination for Best New Play in 2008, and the Tony Award for Best Play in 2011.
Sir Tom Stoppard (born Tomáš Straussler; 3 July 1937) is a Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter, knighted in 1997.  He has written prolifically for TV, radio, film and stage, finding prominence with plays such as "Arcadia", "The Coast of Utopia", "Every Good Boy Deserves Favour", "Professional Foul", "The Real Thing", and "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead".  He co-wrote the screenplays for "Brazil", "The Russia House", and "Shakespeare in Love", and has received one Academy Award and four Tony Awards.  Themes of human rights, censorship and political freedom pervade his work along with exploration of linguistics and philosophy.  Stoppard has been a key playwright of the National Theatre and is one of the most internationally performed dramatists of his generation.  In 2008 "The Daily Telegraph" ranked him number 11 in their list of the "100 most powerful people in British culture".
His Dark Materials is a play written by British playwright Nicholas Wright adapted from the Philip Pullman fantasy novel trilogy of the same title.  The production premiered in the Royal National Theatre's Olivier Theatre, London, in 2003.  Due to the complications in staging a piece containing the narrative of three books, the play was performed in two parts in alternate performances.  The play is published by Nick Hern Books.
Professional Foul Gone Too Far! The Homecoming Rebecca Lenkiewicz Death of a Salesman Doris Abrahams About Time (play) Nick Stafford Tom Stoppard His Dark Materials (play)
Professional Foul is a television play written by Czech-born, British playwright Tom Stoppard.  It was broadcast on 21 September 1977 in BBC 2's "Play of the Week" series.
Professional Foul
Gone Too Far!  is a 2007 play written by British playwright Bola Agbaje.  Drawing on Agbaje's ethnic Nigerian background and London upbringing, the play focuses on one day in the lives of several young black people who live in a London council estate.  The play explores the numerous tensions and conflicts between the various identities - Nigerian, British, West Indian, black, white, mixed-race and Asian.  The play premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in February 2007 and received generally positive reviews.
Gone Too Far!
The Homecoming is a two-act play written in 1964 by Nobel laureate Harold Pinter and it was first published in 1965.  Its premières in London (1965) and New York (1967) were both directed by Sir Peter Hall and starred Pinter's first wife, Vivien Merchant, as Ruth.  The original Broadway production won the 1967 Tony Award for Best Play.  Its 40th-anniversary Broadway production at the Cort Theatre was nominated for a 2008 Tony Award for "Best Revival of a Play".
The Homecoming
Rebecca Lenkiewicz (born 1968) is a British playwright.  She is best known as the author of "Her Naked Skin" (2008), which was the first original play written by a living female playwright to be performed on the Olivier stage of the Royal National Theatre.
Rebecca Lenkiewicz
Death of a Salesman is a 1949 play written by American playwright Arthur Miller.  It was the recipient of the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for Best Play.  The play premiered on Broadway in February 1949, running for 742 performances, and has been revived on Broadway four times, winning three Tony Awards for Best Revival.  It is widely considered to be one of the greatest plays of the 20th century.
Death of a Salesman
Doris Cole Abrahams (January 29, 1921 – February 17, 2009) was a theater producer who won two Tony Awards for Peter Shaffer's play "Equus" and Tom Stoppard's "Travesties".
Doris Abrahams
About Time is a theatrical play written by playwright Tom Cole that debuted in 1990 Off Broadway at the John Houseman Theater.  This two-character play featured an elderly couple, identified only as Old Man and Old Woman, chatting and arguing about matters around the subject of death.  Directed by Tony Giordano, the play original production starred James Whitmore and Audra Lindley, described in a Mel Gussow review as an "endearing couple" who "act their way through and around the slight play that Tom Cole has created for them".  Lindley and Whitmore had been married to each other and divorced in 1979, yet continued to perform with each other on stage.
About Time (play)
Nick Stafford (born 1959 in Staffordshire) is a British playwright and writer.  He is best known for writing the stage adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's novel "War Horse", which garnered him a Laurence Olivier Award nomination for Best New Play in 2008, and the Tony Award for Best Play in 2011.
Nick Stafford
Sir Tom Stoppard (born Tomáš Straussler; 3 July 1937) is a Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter, knighted in 1997.  He has written prolifically for TV, radio, film and stage, finding prominence with plays such as "Arcadia", "The Coast of Utopia", "Every Good Boy Deserves Favour", "Professional Foul", "The Real Thing", and "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead".  He co-wrote the screenplays for "Brazil", "The Russia House", and "Shakespeare in Love", and has received one Academy Award and four Tony Awards.  Themes of human rights, censorship and political freedom pervade his work along with exploration of linguistics and philosophy.  Stoppard has been a key playwright of the National Theatre and is one of the most internationally performed dramatists of his generation.  In 2008 "The Daily Telegraph" ranked him number 11 in their list of the "100 most powerful people in British culture".
Tom Stoppard
His Dark Materials is a play written by British playwright Nicholas Wright adapted from the Philip Pullman fantasy novel trilogy of the same title.  The production premiered in the Royal National Theatre's Olivier Theatre, London, in 2003.  Due to the complications in staging a piece containing the narrative of three books, the play was performed in two parts in alternate performances.  The play is published by Nick Hern Books.
His Dark Materials (play)
What was the name of a play written by a Czech-born British playwright and produced by Doris Cole Abrahams that won a Tony Award for?
What was the name of a play written by a Czech-born British playwright and produced by Doris Cole Abrahams that won a Tony Award for?