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Results 1 - 20 of 21 in Picnic

  1. A Tribute to a Midwestern BardRead the original story w/Photo

    Tuesday Apr 30 | Advocate

    ... says Ellenstein, noting that playwrights tend to go in an out of fashion. This year his Pulitzer winner, Picnic, was revived on Broadway, and lesser-known Inge works are drawing audiences as well. In February a Kansas City, Mo., theater company ...

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  2. Kim Novak tribute tonight on TCMRead the original story

    Mar 6, 2013 | Examiner.com

    ... Festival, TCM will explore Novak's career with presentations of four memorable films: Bell, Book and Candle (1958), Picnic (1955), The Man with the Golden Arm (1955) and Of Human Bondage (1964). "Kim Novak had one of the really interesting careers ...

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  3. Tonight: 'American Idol,' 'Survivor,' Kim Novak on TCMRead the original story w/Photo

    Mar 6, 2013 | The Orlando Sentinel

    ... her difficulties in Hollywood. TCM will show four of her films. Two standouts are "Bell, Book and Candle" at 9 and "Picnic" at midnight. She plays a witch in "Bell, Book and Candle." She plays a troubled small-town beauty in "Picnic," a 1955 drama. ...

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  4. Turner Classic Movies Celebrates Career of Actress Kim Novak TonightRead the original story w/Photo

    Mar 5, 2013 | BroadwayWorld.com

    ... Festival, TCM will explore Novak's career with presentations of four memorable films: Bell, Book and Candle (1958), Picnic (1955), The Man with the Golden Arm (1955) and Of Human Bon dage (1964). " Kim Novak had one of the really interesting careers ...

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  5. Kim Novak: Top of the world in 'Vertigo' and in her lifeRead the original story w/Photo

    Feb 28, 2013 | The Orlando Sentinel

    ... eyes, there was never a performance. It was so easy being with him. With other actors you could see them acting." "Picnic," a 1955 drama from a William Inge play, is another career high point, but she clashed with director Joshua Logan. He wanted ...

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  6. TCM to celebrate career of actress Kim NovakRead the original story

    Feb 19, 2013 | Examiner.com

    ... Festival, TCM will explore Novak's career with presentations of four memorable films: Bell, Book and Candle (1958), Picnic (1955), The Man with the Golden Arm (1955) and Of Human Bondage (1964). "Kim Novak had one of the really interesting careers ...

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  7. Read an Excerpt from After Visiting Friends, a Memoir by GQ's Michael HaineyRead the original story

    Feb 18, 2013 | Vanity Fair

    ... our own lives. She loves Joseph Cotten in Gaslight but thinks William Holden is the sexiest man ever. When I was 14, Picnic came on one night and she asked me to watch it with her, then told me how she saw it as a teenager and fell in love with ...

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  8. Turner Classic Movies to Celebrate Career of Actress Kim Novak, 3/6Read the original story w/Photo

    Jan 21, 2013 | BroadwayWorld.com

    ... Festival, TCM will explore Novak's career with presentations of four memorable films: Bell, Book and Candle (1958), Picnic (1955), The Man with the Golden Arm (1955) and Of Human Bon dage (1964). " Kim Novak had one of the really interesting careers ...

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  9. Reed Birney at RoundaboutRead the original story w/Photo

    Feb 7, 2013 | BroadwayWorld.com

    After more than three decades away, Reed Birney made a well-deserved return to the Broadway stage when Roundabout's production of Picnic opened earlier this month.

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  10. Sebastian Stan Defends His Sexy Broadway BodyRead the original story w/Photo

    Feb 7, 2013 | Gay.com

    ... starring as handsome drifter Hal Carter in Roundabout Theater Company's revival of William Inge's 1953 drama Picnic , which runs through Feb. 24 at Broadway's American Airlines Theatre. As you might imagine from the drool-worthy produciton photo ...

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  11. Summer Lovin': How the Pulitzer Prize-Winning Picnic Turned Up the Heat on Broadway 60 Years AgoRead the original story w/Photo

    Jan 15, 2013 | Broadway

    A dashing drifter, a beautiful girl and the last day of summer sounds romantic, no? Passion and propriety collide in William Inge's Picnic , the 1953 dramedy that's receiving a starry Broadway revival at the American Airlines Theatre.

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  12. Hunky Drifter Stirs the Ladies in a Revival of - Picnic': Jeremy GerardRead the original story w/Photo

    Jan 14, 2013 | Bloomberg

    We never get to the picnic that plays the title role in William Inge's 1953 Pulitzer Prize - winning potboiler.

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  13. Picnic and a six pack on BroadwayRead the original story

    Jan 14, 2013 | Examiner.com

    ... a meal, causes quite a stir among the ladies in this Midwestern Kansas town who are in preparation for the Labor Day picnic . This revival of William Inge' 1953 play, that won him a Pulitzer Prize and originally featured Ralph Meeker , Eileen ...

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  14. Theater review: 'Picnic' on BroadwayRead the original story

    Jan 13, 2013 | New York Daily News

    ... whips a family of women - and anyone with XX chromosomes - into a hot, steamy lather. But William Inge's 1953 play, "Picnic," has other things on its mind. Like the repression of small-town life and the straitjacket of conventions and the power and ...

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  15. Picnic Is Back On Broadway: My ReviewRead the original story w/Photo

    Jan 13, 2013 | The Village Voice

    Everyone in William Inge 's Pulitzer winning 1953 play Picnic seems to be yearning, striving, or regretting .

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  16. An old fashioned 'Picnic' is delivered best by the veteransRead the original story

    Jan 13, 2013 | Examiner.com

    It is a wonder that William Inge's Picnic still works at all, for it's a 1950s play all about sexual repression.

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  17. Picnic: Theater ReviewRead the original story w/Photo

    Jan 13, 2013 | Hollywood Reporter

    ... pleasurable about sinking into the vivid evocation of small-town Middle America in his 1953 Pulitzer winner, Picnic . While the heat between the central couple in director Sam Gold 's Broadway revival could have been turned up a notch, the veil of ...

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  18. Picnic, American Airlines Theatre, New YorkRead the original story

    Jan 13, 2013 | Financial Times

    Village innocence is somewhat overdone in this revival of William Inge's 1953 drama set in a small Kansas town Amateur stagings of Picnic , the 1953 William Inge drama in Broadway revival from the Roundabout, may have a fighting chance of matching play to production.

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  19. Picnic: Navigating between restraint and desireRead the original story

    Jan 13, 2013 | The Jersey Journal

    Mare Winningham, left, is Flo, the mother of Millie, played by Madeleine Martin, center, and Madge, played by Maggie Grace, in the Roundabout Theatre CompanyaA A s production of aA AoePicnic.aA A In William Inge's Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Picnic," all eyes are on Madge, a teenage girl who is so attractive that an admiring family friend says her ... (more)

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  20. Vintage Hunk: Cliff RobertsonRead the original story w/Photo

    Jan 7, 2013 | Gay.com

    ... marine and then entered the theater. His first movie roles were in 1956 playing Kim Novak's wealthy boyfriend in Picnic and Joan Crawford's disturbed younger husband in the campy Autumn Leaves . (For "hunk" purposes check out Cliff in his bathing ...

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