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Green goddess dressing

The most accepted theory regarding its origins points to the Palace Hotel in San Francisco in 1923, when the hotel's executive chef Philip Roemer wanted something to pay tribute to actor George Arliss and his hit play, The Green Goddess.

Hospitality Suite

Hospitality Suite is an award-winning stage play written by Roger Rueff that centers around conflicting notions of character, salesmanship, honesty, religion, and love that simmer until they boil over as two experienced salesmen and a young research engineer await a CEO whose visit to their modest hospitality suite could save their company from ruin.

Samuel French, Inc.

The company's London subsidiary, Samuel French Ltd., publishes stage plays for the UK market, mostly acting editions, serves as licensing agent for performance rights, and runs a theatrical bookshop on its premises at Fitzrovia in central London, England.

The Impossible Itself

The Impossible Itself is a 2010 documentary film produced and directed by Jacob Adams to cover the 1957 San Francisco Actor's Workshop production of the Samuel Beckett stage play Waiting For Godot that was taken to San Quentin Prison and performed before its inmates, with an examination of an earlier incarnation of Godot as performed by inmates at the Luttringhausen Prison in Germany in 1953.

Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love

Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love is a 1989 stage play written by Canadian playwright Brad Fraser.

Winthrop Ames

After the war, Ames began to direct most of his Broadway shows, which included The Betrothal (1918), The Green Goddess (1921), The Truth About Blayds (1922), Will Shakespeare (1923), Beggar on Horseback (1924), Minick (1924), Old English (1924), White Wings (1926), Escape (1927), The Merchant of Venice (1928) and Mrs. Moonlight (1930).


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Alejandra Bogue

In the early 90's makes her debut in the Teatro Universitario with the stage play Baal of Bertolt Brecht, directed by Jose Luis Cruz.

Amadeu Vives i Roig

Before turning to zarzuela, Vives wrote a successful Catalan-language stage play, Jo no sabia que el món era així ("I didn't know the world was like this", 1929) and an ambitious four-act opera Artús (1897, Barcelona) based on Sir Walter Scott.

An Evening with Gary Lineker

An Evening with Gary Lineker is a 1991 stage play, adapted for television in 1994, by Arthur Smith and Chris England.

Àngel Guimerà

In addition to being a popular stage play, Terra baixa was made into six films, including a silent film in the United States, entitled "Martha of the Lowlands" (1914) and Leni Riefenstahl's Tiefland (1954).

Bengali Language Movement

Notable artistic depictions include the poems Bornomala, Amar Dukhini Bornomala and February 1969 by Shamsur Rahman, the film Jibon Theke Neya by Zahir Raihan, the stage play Kobor by Munier Chowdhury and the novels Ekushey February by Raihan and Artonaad by Shawkat Osman.

Betsy Blair

In early 1941, Blair secured her first role in a stage play when Kelly's friend William Saroyan chose her to play the female lead role of St. Agnes of the Mice in his play The Beautiful People at the Lyceum Theatre, playing opposite Eugene Loring, and securing excellent reviews from leading critics George Jean Nathan and Richard Watts, Jr..

Bill MacIlwraith

Born in London, he is best known for the stage play The Anniversary (1966) which was adapted into a film version released in 1968 starring Bette Davis as 'Mum'.

Blu Cantrell

In 2007, Cantrell starred alongside LisaRaye and Kenya Moore in the musical stage play Gossip, Lies and Secrets.

Bonita Granville

Over the next couple of years she played uncredited supporting roles in such films as Little Women (1933) and Anne of Green Gables (1934) before playing the role of Mary in the film adaptation of Lillian Hellman's 1934 stage play The Children's Hour.

Charles Thomson

He was portrayed in the 1969 stage play and the 1972 film 1776 by Ralston Hill.

Christopher Matthew

He contributed scripts to the ITV series, The Good Guys with Nigel Havers and Keith Barron, and a stage play, Summoned by Betjeman, starring Robert Daws, was performed at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford, the Royal Theatre, Northampton, and Clwyd Theatr Cymru.

Chupi Chupi Aashey

Though the credits list Mitra as the story writer, Chupi Chupi Aashey was adapted from Agatha Christie's radio play and short story Three Blind Mice and stage play The Mousetrap.

Cradle Snatchers

The picture is based on the 1925 Russell Medcraft/Norma Mitchell stage play of the same name that starred Mary Boland, Edna May Oliver and Humphrey Bogart.

Darrin Henson

In February 2011, Henson co-starred in the Gospel Music Channel's debut of John Ruffin's stage play The Ideal Hustband, which also stars Jackée Harry, Ginuwine, Clifton Powell, Shirley Murdock, Shanti Lowry and Erica Hubbard.

David Tinker

It was subsequently adapted into a stage play called Falkland Sound by Louise Page which was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre in 1983.

Domitia Longina

The Roman Actor, a Caroline era stage play, written by Philip Massinger, concerning the alleged affair between Domitia Longina and Paris.

Enrique Bunbury

After adopting the nickname of Bunbury, taken from the Oscar Wilde stage play The Importance of Being Earnest, the musician teamed up with Héroes del Silencio, becoming a major number in the Hispanic rock scene.

Estelle Brody

This was the second silent version of the famous, and controversial in its time, stage play by Stanley Houghton, and received an appropriate budget for a prestige production.

Fania Fénelon

Arthur Miller Playing for Time: a full-length stage play; adapted from the television film by Arthur Miller; based upon the book of the same title by Fania Fenelon.

Johnny Gill

Gill starred in the 2009 stage play A Mother's Prayer, which also starred Robin Givens, Shirley Murdock, and Jermaine Crawford.

Khutulun

Carlo Gozzi wrote his own version fifty years later, a stage play in which she was a “tigerish woman” of “unrelenting pride.” Friedrich Schiller translated and adapted the play into German as Turandot, Prinzessin von China in 1801.

Kisses for Breakfast

The film is a remake of the 1930 pre-Code comedy The Matrimonial Bed, which was produced by Warner Brothers Pictures from an English stage play adaptation by Seymour Hicks (Mr. What's His Name) of a French comic farce, Au Premier de Ces Messieurs ("To the First Husband"), written by Mirande and André Mouëzy-Éon.

Mende Nazer

In 2010, her life story was dramatised in the Channel Four programme I Am Slave, starring Wunmi Mosaku and in the stage play, 'Slave - A Question of Freedom', by Feelgood Theatre Productions which was based entirely on her story.

Michael Barrymore

In January 2008, Barrymore took the role of comedian and writer Spike Milligan in the stage play Surviving Spike.

Not After Midnight

The short story "Don't Look Now" has been adapted in several media: a classic 1973 film directed by Nicolas Roeg; a radio adaptation by Ronald Frame, first broadcast 9 December 2001 on BBC Radio 4 as part of the Classic Serial series; and a stage play by Nell Leyshon in 2007.

Pauline Devaney

During the 1980s she wrote a one-woman stage play, To Marie with Love, based on the life of Marie Stopes, which she took to the Edinburgh Festival in 1985.

Priya Tendulkar

Her first appearance was as a doll in a stage play called Haya Vadan (1969) along with Kalpana Lajmi.

Roger Rueff

His stage play Hospitality Suite premiered at South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa, California in 1992 and has been subsequently produced internationally.

Rosemary Anne Sisson

A previously thought lost Theatre 625 production from 1966 of Sisson's stage play The Queen and the Welshman (1958), concerning the affair of Henry V's widow Catherine with Sir Owen Tudor, was found in 2010 to have been deposited with the Library of Congress.

Sansho the Bailiff

In 1990 producers Robert Michael Geisler and John Roberdeau (Streamers, The Thin Red Line) commissioned director Terrence Malick to write a stage play based on Sansho the Bailiff.

Schweizer SGS 1-24

The 1-24 was given the name Brigadoon by Howie Burr, after the popular musical stage play and film of the same name.

Seagulls Over Sorrento

The original stage play was written by Australian playwright Hugh Hastings and was based on his experiences in World War II.

Stephen Barker Turner

Stephen appears in the title role of Charlie in Seducing Charlie Barker, an independent film adaptation of Theresa Rebeck's stage play, The Scene, released in December 2011.

Stephen North

North also played one of the two lead roles in the award winning stage play Meeting Joe Strummer with Emmerdale actor Nick Miles.

Tay Ping Hui

Being the all rounded artiste, Tay also later performed in the stage play Butterflies are Free, handpicked by Hong Kong film director Clifton Ko.

The Elf Mound

The most notable reference to the story is the Norwegian stage play Peer Gynt in which the Mountain King (Dovregubben), is clearly modeled on the Norwegian troll king in Andersen's tale.

The Exonerated

It stars David Brown, Jr. (the only cast member to have appeared in the stage play) as Robert Earl Hayes, Brian Dennehy as Gary Gauger, Danny Glover as David Keaton, Delroy Lindo as Delbert Tibbs, Aidan Quinn as Kerry Max Cook and Susan Sarandon as Sonia "Sunny" Jacobs.

The Good Companions

On 11 July 1974 a musical adaptation, directed by Braham Murray with a libretto by Ronald Harwood, music by André Previn and lyrics by Johnny Mercer (in his last show) opened at Her Majesty's Theatre in London – the same venue of the stage play over forty years earlier (having had its world premiere at the Palace Theatre in Manchester).

The Late Lancashire Witches

The Late Lancashire Witches is a Caroline era stage play, written by Thomas Heywood and Richard Brome, published in 1634.

The Local Stigmatic

The Local Stigmatic is based on a stage play by Heathcote Williams.

The Miller's Daughter

Fair Em or Fair Em, the Miller's Daughter of Manchester, Elizabethan era stage play

Truth in Translation

Truth in Translation is a stage play conceived and directed by Michael Lessac, with music by Hugh Masekela.

Vicky Binns

Binns is the voice of animation 'Susie Pugh' and has gone on to play a guest lead in Casualty for the BBC and True Crime for ITV Her recent Theatre credits include Steph in 'The Ushers' and Annie in the classic stage play Alfie directed by David Thacker.

Visiting Mr. Green

Visiting Mr. Green is a stage play by American author Jeff Baron that has been performed around the world.

Wearing My Rolex

An a cappella version of "Wearing My Rolex", performed by the main cast, featured in the original Royal Court Theatre production of Laura Wade's stage play Posh (2010).

Wild-goose chase

The Wild Goose Chase, a comedy stage play written by John Fletcher and first published in 1621

Woodingdean

Life in these plotlands was satirized in a stage play by H. F. Maltby called What Might Happen (1927).