Jack Gelber (April 12, 1932 – May 9, 2003) was an American playwright best known for his 1959 drama The Connection, depicting the life of drug-addicted...
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Look up gelber in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Gelber is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Alexis Gelber, Goldsmith Fellow at the...
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feature; she had made several short films over the previous decade. Jack Gelber wrote the screenplay, adapting his play of the same name. The film was...
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The Connection is a 1959 play by Jack Gelber. It was first produced by the Living Theatre, directed by Living Theatre co-founder Judith Malina, designed...
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Festival Theatre in Lake Forest, Illinois The production was directed by Jack Gelber who had been enlisted by Page's husband Rip Torn (who played Stanley)...
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written for the Los Angeles production of the play The Connection by Jack Gelber in 1960. Dexter Calling was Gordon's second album for Blue Note, and...
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and Patricia Conolly as Stella. in 1976, Rip Torn enlisted director Jack Gelber to helm a revival at the once celebrated Academy Festival Theatre in...
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Gianni Toti as himself / panelist David Viñas as himself / panelist Jack Gelber as himself Before the film's release, both the director, Tomás Gutiérrez...
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and David Campton; in the United States, Edward Albee, Sam Shepard, Jack Gelber, and John Guare; in Poland, Tadeusz Różewicz; Sławomir Mrożek, and Tadeusz...
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Foster Amy Freed Ketti Frings Charles Fuller George Furth Herb Gardner Jack Gelber Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros Alice Gerstenberg William Gibson D. B. Gilles...
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known for writing music to accompany The Connection (1959), a play by Jack Gelber. According to Peter Watrous, writing in The New York Times: "Mr. Redd...
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America?" Her first feature film The Connection (1961), from the play by Jack Gelber, concerns heroin-addicted jazz musicians, and was part of the emergence...
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out of complacency. This took different forms. In one example, from Jack Gelber's The Connection (1959), a drama about drug addiction, actors playing...
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Jones, William Styron, Norman Mailer, Philip Roth, Harold "Doc" Humes, Jack Gelber, Jules Feiffer, Blair Fuller, Gore Vidal, Kenneth Tynan, the Aga Khan...
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(1923–1995, United States) Larry Gelbart (1928–2009, United States) Jack Gelber (1932–2003, United States) Gratien Gélinas (1909–1999, Canada) in French...
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Redd, one of which, The Connection, used music written for the play by Jack Gelber and its film version. In 1963, Lee Morgan scored a significant hit with...
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an album by the Freddie Redd Quartet, recorded as the soundtrack for Jack Gelber's 1959 play The Connection on February 15, 1960 and released on Blue Note...
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The album featured music from the off-Broadway play The Connection by Jack Gelber, featuring music composed by Redd. A slightly earlier recording of the...
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Lab at T. Schreiber Studio, and earned his MFA in playwriting under Jack Gelber at Brooklyn College. Parra is the winner of a National Endowment for...
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Paddy Chayefsky in the 1950s, the avant garde movement of Jack Richardson, Arthur Kopit, Jack Gelber and Edward Albee the 1960s, and the maturation of black...
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period, Brooks was McLean's understudy in The Connection, a play by Jack Gelber with music by Redd, and performed on an album of music from the play...
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of Phi Beta Kappa, and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom Jack Gelber, playwright and theater director; taught at Brooklyn College 1972–2003...
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Julius Caesar and John Grass in Indians by Arthur Kopit, directed by Jack Gelber. In 1969 Daniels became a director and worked for five years directing...
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the Future (1988) Les J3 (1946) Jack Goes Boating (film) (2010) Jack of All Trades (1936 film) Jack Straw (1920 film) Jack Tar (film) (1915) Jacques Brel...
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play by Jack Gelber, performed by the Living Theater The Music From The Connection (Freddie Redd Quartet), a jazz album of music for Jack Gelber's 1959 play...
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first professional role in Arnold Wesker's The Kitchen, directed by Jack Gelber, with Rip Torn. She has won Obie Awards for three acting performances:...
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Jack Klugman (April 27, 1922 – December 24, 2012) was an American actor of stage, film, and television. He began his career in 1949 and started television...
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productions of Kenneth Brown's The Brig (c. 1964), also filmed, and of Jack Gelber's controversial play The Connection and its 1961 film rely upon and illustrate...
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Fallen Hero: The Jack Trice Story. Logan, Iowa: Perfection Learning. ISBN 0-7807-9043-X. Gelber, Jonathan (2022). The Idealist : Jack Trice and the battle...
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choreographer, dies at 88". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2023-06-09. "Jack Gelber". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2022-11-04. "Errol...
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