• Jean-Claude van Itallie (May 25, 1936 – September 9, 2021) was a Belgian-born American playwright, performer, and theatre workshop teacher. He is best...
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  • America Hurrah is a satirical play by Jean-Claude van Itallie, which premiered at the Pocket Theatre in New York City on November 7, 1966. Directed by...
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    Sophocles at the Royal Exchange, Manchester (1987) The Traveller by Jean Claude Van Itallie at the Haymarket Theatre, Leicester and then the Almeida (1987)...
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    Schuster. p. 199. ISBN 978-1-4169-5556-6. Plunka, Gene A. (1999). Jean-Claude Van Itallie and the Off-broadway Theater. University of Delaware Press. p. 28...
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    printmaker Kristen Stewart (born 1990), actress and filmmaker Jean-Claude van Itallie (1936–2021), playwright, performer, and theatre workshop teacher...
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    with (and was heavily influenced by) Tina Packer, John Guare, Jean-Claude van Itallie, and members of The Living Theatre. Melamed then entered the Yale...
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    Monument in Rostov-on-Don Ann Dunnigan, English-language translator Jean-Claude van Itallie, English-language translator In this name that follows Eastern...
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  • order to create a very pointed piece. According to the playwright Jean Claude Van Itallie, a member of the company, the piece was conceived with the idea...
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  • Garson; and America Hurrah, by Jean-Claude van Itallie. Joseph Chaikin of La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club and van Itallie came to San Francisco to direct...
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    primarily producing new plays, including works by Paul Foster, Jean-Claude van Itallie, Lanford Wilson, Sam Shepard, Adrienne Kennedy, Harvey Fierstein...
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    commissioned by Joseph Papp and the Public Theater. The adaptation was by Jean-Claude van Itallie. It was directed by David Willinger and featured a cast of 13,...
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    Roosevelt (1760–1847) at 58 Bleecker Street Edward Thebaud Mark Van Doren Jean-Claude van Itallie lived at 21 Bleecker Street Gernot Wagner Dave Winer Valenti...
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    Heide (The Bed, filmed by Andy Warhol), Paul Foster (Tom Paine), Jean-Claude van Itallie (America Hurrah), and Lanford Wilson (Burn This); directors Tom...
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    Garson's play, The Co-op. Also at TNC he appeared in Chile ’73 by Jean-Claude van Itallie which toured to the Teatro Regio in Parma, Italy and in 1976 he...
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  • Hall). In 1976, the New York Shakespeare Festival commissioned Jean-Claude van Itallie to retranslate The Cherry Orchard into English. He provided them...
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  • such as the violence of the 1960s. An Open Theatre exercise by Jean-Claude van Itallie, "Interview," became part of the play America Hurrah, and Chaikin...
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  • His stage work includes premieres of new plays by David Mamet, Jean-Claude van Itallie, Richard Nelson, Dusty Hughes, David Hare, John Osborne, and Tom...
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    a member of a local summer theater project, he co-starred in Jean-Claude van Itallie's America Hurrah in 1972. After graduating from high school in 1972...
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  • Two-Character Play. Other dramatists whose works were featured included Jean-Claude van Itallie, Richard Scheckner, Andrei Serban, and Elizabeth Swados. Ruas initiated...
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  • Union) Jaco Van Dormael (born 1957, Belgium) John Vanbrugh (1664–1726, England) John William Van Druten (1901–1957, England) Jean-Claude van Itallie (1936–2021...
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    Bernadette Peters Robert Heide Bette Midler Johnny Dodd Doric Wilson Jean-Claude van Itallie Rosalyn Drexler Marshall W. Mason Tom O'Horgan Charles Kerbs Magie...
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  • Twist). Jean-Claude van Itallie, 85, Belgian-born American playwright (America Hurrah), pneumonia. Alicia Iturrioz, 94, Spanish painter and author. Jean-Paul...
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    included plays by Richard Foreman, Charles Ludlam, Miguel Piñero and Jean-Claude van Itallie. Theater for the New City also began its Annual Summer Street Theater...
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  • has collaborated, among others, with award-winning playwright Jean-Claude van Itallie, and Anaïs Nin, who documented Spanier's performance in her last...
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  • Sam Shepard, Ronald Tavel, María Irene Fornés, Emanuel Peluso, Jean-Claude van Itallie, Soren Agenoux, H. M. Koutoukas, and William M. Hoffman, and others...
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  • City. The following year he directed two of the short plays in Jean-Claude van Itallie's America Hurrah. In 1969, Levy directed the successful off-Broadway...
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  • The Open Theater to work with fellow playwrights Sam Shepard and Jean-Claude van Itallie on the company's final production, Nightwalk, in 1973. Following...
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    of the Dead, a liberation through hearing, Ricky Ian Gordon and Jean-Claude van Itallie, 1996 Florencia en el Amazonas, Daniel Catán and Marcela Fuentes-Berain...
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    Antoni Słonimski, poet Tereska Torrès, novelist Julian Tuwim, poet Jean-Claude van Itallie, actor and playwright King Vidor, film director Journalists Hamilton...
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  • Fink's production of Ancient Boys was described in Gene A. Plunka's Jean-Claude van Itallie and the off-broadway theater (1990). Fink is quoted in Jim Volk's...
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