#Sam Norkin

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Cover art to Der Ring des Nibelungen and Parsifal: Orchestral highlights vol. II, Franz Konwitschny conducting the Munich State Opera (Bayerische Staatsoper), Urania Records (URLP 7065), 1952.

Artist uncredited, possibly Siegmund Forst, Frank Parisi, or Robert Galster. UPDATE: Jonas as Midcentury Classical dot com attributes it to Sam Norkin.

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Do you have more Richard Burton illustrations/caricatures? I've only seen the Hirschfeld ones..

There's this one!

There may be more in the depths of Newspapers.com - I only looked around the time of Hamlet.

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Original Broadway cast of Chicago (1975) / Illustration by Sam Norkin

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A scene from the musical Do Re Mi. Sam Norkin, dated 20 August 1961.

Opening Night, the 1963 CBS season preview. Clockwise from Phil—Lucille Ball, Garry Moore, Danny Thomas, Jack Benny and Andy Griffith.

New York’s Daily News, 3 April 1966. Bruce Stark.

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Danai Jekesai Gurira I have to be honest the first time I had encountered Danai Gurira’s work was last Friday event at the premier of Black Panther in South Africa. Danai plays the role of Okeye I Marvels. Black Pantehr.

In my series of saluting black excellence within the arts, I have decided to research and educate myself on who this powerful screen goddess is. To my great excitement, she is of Zimbabwean ancestry, who speaks four languages: French, Shona, basic Xhosa, and English.

So who is Danai?

Danai was born in Grinnell, Iowa, to Josephine Gurira, a university librarian, and Roger Gurira, a lecturer in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin–Platteville. Her parents moved to the United States from Zimbabwe, in 1964. She is the youngest of four siblings; Shingai and Choni are her sisters and Tare, her brother, is a chiropractor. Gurira lived in Grinnell until December 1983, when at age five she and her family moved back to Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe, after the country gained independence. She attended high school at Dominican Convent High School. Afterwards, she returned to the United States to study at Macalester College, in Saint Paul, Minnesota, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in psychology. Gurira also earned a Master of Fine Arts in acting, from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.

Danai the playwright: As a playwright, she has been commissioned by Yale Repertory Theatre, Center Theatre Group, Playwrights Horizons, and the Royal Court. She co-wrote and co-starred in the off-Broadway play In the Continuum, which won her an Obie Award, an Outer Critics Circle Award, and a Helen Hayes Award for Best Lead Actress. In December 2011, In the Continuum commemorated World AIDS Day 2011. The play, sponsored by the U.S. Embassy in Zimbabwe, was performed at Harare’s Theatre and featured the story of two women who were navigating the world after contracting the AIDS virus. In 2009, Danai made her acting debut on Broadway in August Wilson’s play Joe Turner’s Come and Gone playing Martha Pentecost. Danai received the Whiting Award for an emerging playwright in 2012. In January 2015, Familiar, a play written by Danai and directed by Rebecca Taichman, opened at Yale Repertory Theatre. It later premiered Off-Broadway in New York at Playwrights Horizons. The play is about family, cultural identity, and the experience of life as a first-generation American, and Danai has said that it was inspired in part by family and friends of hers.

In 2015, Lupita Nyong’o starred in Gurira’s 2009 play, Eclipsed, Off-Broadway at The Public Theater. It was announced the play would move to Broadway in 2016 at the John Golden Theatre. It was the first play to premiere on Broadway with an all female and black cast and creative team. The play is set in war-torn Liberia and focuses on three women who are living as sex slaves to a rebel commander, and is about how they deal with this difficult situation. The play was inspired by a photograph of female fighters and their tale of survival. She received the 2016 Sam Norkin Award, for Eclipsed. Eclipsed was also nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play, and won the Tony Award for Best Costume Design in a Play.

Danai on film and television.

Danai starred in the 2007 film The Visitor, for which she won Method Fest Independent Film Festival Award for Best Supporting Actress. She has appeared in the films Ghost Town, 3 Backyards, My Soul to Take, and Restless City, as well the television shows Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Life on Mars, and Law & Order. From 2010 to 2011, she appeared in the HBO drama series Treme. In 2013, Danai played a lead role in director Andrew Dosunmu’s independent drama film Mother of George, which premiered at 2013 Sundance Film Festival. Gurira received critical acclaim for her performance as a Nigerian woman struggling to live in the United States. In June 2013, Danai won the Jean-Claude Gahd Dam award at the 2013 Guys Choice Awards. In January 2016, it was announced Gurira had been cast as Tupac Shakur’s mother, Afeni Shakur, in All Eyez on Me, a biopic about the rap star.

The Walking Dead. In March 2012, Danai joined the cast of their horror-drama series The Walking Dead, where she plays Michonne, a relentless, katana-wielding character who joins a close-knit group in an apocalyptic world. Together they are forced to relentlessly fight flesh-eating zombies and certain of the few surviving humans, some of whom are even more diabolical and dangerous than the zombies themselves.

Activism In 2008 Danai appeared at the Global Green Sustainable Design Awards to read a letter written by a New Orleans native displaced by Hurricane Katrina. In 2011 she co-founded Almasi Arts Inc., an organisation dedicated to continuing arts education in Zimbabwe. Gurira currently serves as the Executive Artistic Director. In 2015 Danai signed an open letter begun by the ONE Campaign. The letter was addressed to Angela Merkel and Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, urging them to focus on women as they serve as the head of the G7 in Germany and the AU in South Africa respectively. The following year Gurira founded the non-profit organization Love Our Girls, which aims to highlight the issues and challenges that specifically affect women throughout the world. In 2016 Gurira partnered with Johnson & Johnson in the fight against HIV/AIDS.

African Global Excellence: Honouring Danai Gurira. Danai Jekesai Gurira I have to be honest the first time I had encountered Danai Gurira’s work was last Friday event at the premier of Black Panther in South Africa.

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Juan Castano Bio, Age, Life, Ethnicity, Religion, Dating, Is Juan Castano Gay?, Boyfriend, Net Worth, Girlfriend, Wiki

Juan Castano Bio, Age, Life, Ethnicity, Religion, Dating, Is Juan Castano Gay?, Boyfriend, Net Worth, Girlfriend, Wiki

Juan Castano is an actor who is best known for his roles in The Wilde Wedding (2019), as Marcos Ruiz in What/If (2019) and has starred in New York theater productions of A Parallelogram at 2nd Stage and the Public Oedipus El Rey as Oedipus and was honored with the Drama Desk’s Sam Norkin Award given for off-Broadway excellence. To learn more about him, read the article below.

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HARTFORD, CT — August 9, 2018 — Hartford Stage Artistic Director Darko Tresnjak and Managing Director Michael Stotts today announced the cast and creative team for Make Believe, written by Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle award-winning playwright Bess Wohl. The world premiere play will perform Thursday, September 6, through Sunday, September 30, to open the Tony Award-winning regional theatre’s 55th season. Jackson Gay will direct.

Bess Wohl’s uncanny, gently funny and touching play, set in the 1980s, follows four young siblings as their childhood is upended by the mysterious problems of the adults in their lives and tracks how moments from our childhood resonate with us forever. The talented cast features four adult and four youth actors.

“I had the pleasure of meeting Bess Wohl and Jackson Gay two decades ago at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. Since then, Bess has evolved into one of our most innovative playwrights and Jackson one of our finest directors. It is a pleasure to be reacquainted with them and to welcome them to Hartford Stage for the world premiere of Make Believe,” Tresnjak said.

“I couldn’t be happier to be opening our season with Bess Wohl’s Hartford Stage commission, Make Believe,” Hartford Stage Associate Artistic Director Elizabeth Williamson said. “I’ve worked with Bess for almost a decade, beginning with premiering her plays Touch(ed) and Inat Pioneer Theatre Company. As with all of Bess’ work, Make Believe is surprising and funny, but it’s also a serious play about childhood, performed by children. It’s exciting, theatrical, and deeply moving. We’re very grateful to the Toulmin Foundation for making this commission possible and delighted to have Jackson Gay on board to direct.”

Wohl’s most recent work, Small Mouth Sounds, was hailed as a critic’s pick by The New York Times, New York Magazine, and Time Out New York. Wohl was also honored with the 2017 Outer Critics Circle’s John Gassner Award for American plays by new playwrights for Small Mouth Sounds, which completed a national tour last April. She received the 2015 Drama Desk Sam Norkin Off-Broadway Award for establishing herself as an important voice in New York theatre. Wohl’s other plays include American Hero, Barcelona (Ovation award nominee), and the original musical Pretty Filthy (2015 Lucille Lortel and Drama Desk nominations for Outstanding Musical). Wohl also writes for film and television. Her film, Irreplaceable You, premiered on Netflix last February. Wohl won an Athena Award for her original screenplay, Virginia; and Inwas included on the 2007 Hollywood Black List. Wohl has also developed film and television projects for HBO, ABC, USA, Disney and Paramount.

The company of Make Believe includes Megan Byrne (The Wolves, TheaterWorks; The Hatmaker’s Wife, The Playwrights Realm) as Adult Kate; Chris Ghaffari (Romeo & Juliet, Hartford Stage; Sex with Strangers, Westport Country Playhouse) as Adult Chris; Brad Heberlee (Small Mouth Sounds, Ars Nova/Signature and Philadelphia Theatre Company; These Paper Bullets, Atlantic Theatre Company and Yale Repertory Theatre) as Adult Carl; Roman Malenda (History Mystery, TADA! Youth Theater; All My Sons, French Woods Festival of the Performing Arts) as Chris; Alexa Skye Swinton (Billions, Showtime; The Department Party, Playwrights Horizons) as Addie; RJ Vercellone (A Christmas Carol–A Ghost Story of Christmas, Hartford Stage; The Who’s Tommy, Curtain Call) as Carl; Molly Ward (Othello, Hartford Stage; Bathsheba Dorin’s Kin, Playwrights Horizons) as Adult Addie; and Sloane Wolfe (Annie, Paper Mill Playhouse; Samson-original cast, Sight & Sound Theatres) as Kate.

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Director Jackson Gay’s credits include Lucy Thurber’s Transfers at MCC Theater; The Cake and the world premiere of Suzanne Vega’s Lover, Beloved: An Evening with Carson McCullers, with music by Vega and Duncan Sheik, at the Alley Theatre; These Paper Bullets! – an adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing by Rolin Jones with music by Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong – at Atlantic Theatre Company, The Geffen and Yale Repertory Theatre; and The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow at Atlantic Theatre Company and Yale Repertory Theatre. Gay is a founding member of the theatre-television-music company New Neighborhood. She is the Director of Artistic Programs for Fuller Road Artist Residency and has taught directing and acting at Columbia University, Yale University, Primary Stages’ Marvin and Anne Einhorn School of Performing Arts (ESPA), Sarah Lawrence College and Fordham University.

In addition to Gay, the creative team is comprised of Set Designer Antje Ellermann (An Opening in Time, Hartford Stage; Stuffed, Women’s Project Theater; The Broken Heart, Theatre for a New Audience); Costume Designer Jonghyun Georgia Lee (The Cake, PlayMakers Repertory Company; Caught, The Play Company; Sense and Sensibility, Guthrie Theater); Lighting Designer Paul Whitaker (Lover, Beloved: An Evening with Carson McCullers, Alley Theatre; These Paper Bullets, Geffen Playhouse and Atlantic Theatre Company; Rigoletto, Minnesota Opera); and Sound Designers Broken Chord Collective (A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hartford Stage; Eclipsed and The Parisian Woman, Broadway). Hartford Stage Associate Artistic Director Elizabeth Williamson (The Inheritance, Young Vic and West End; Anastasia and A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, Hartford Stage and Broadway) will serve as Dramaturg.

Rob Chikar (These Paper Bullets, Yale Repertory Theatre; Kill Local, La Jolla Playhouse) will serve as Production Stage Manager, with Kelly Hardy (A Christmas Carol–A Ghost Story of Christmas, Anastasia, Hartford Stage) as Assistant Stage Manager.

The National Endowment for the Arts awarded an Art Works grant to Hartford Stage in June 2017 to support the development and production of Make Believe. The theatre was also awarded one of the first grants from the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation to commission new theatrical works from women.

The development and production of new work at Hartford Stage is funded, in part, by grants from Burry Fredrik Foundation, The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, and The Lucille Lortel Foundation.

The 2018/19 season is also sponsored by the Greater Hartford Arts Council and the Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development.

Special Dates

Previews begin at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, September 6 Opening Night: 8 p.m., Friday, September 14 Closes: 2 p.m., Sunday, September 30 Wed Matinee at 2:00 p.m. on September 26 only Weekly schedules vary. For details, visit www.hartfordstage.org.

Tickets & Performances

Tue, Wed, Thu, Sun at 7:30 p.m.—Fri, Sat at 8 p.m.—Sat, Sun at 2 p.m.

Tickets for all shows start at $25. Student tickets: $18.

For group discounts (10 or more individuals), email groupsales@hartfordstage.org or call 860-520-7125.

For all other tickets, please call the Hartford Stage box office at 860-527-5151 or visit www.hartfordstage.org.

Special Events

HPL @ Hartford Stage. Hartford Public Library and Hartford Stage invite you to dig deeper into the world of the plays onstage. Check out a book from the HPL @ Hartford Stage micro branch at Guest Services. Select books available at the theatre and at each Hartford branch library.

Sunday Afternoon Discussion, September 16. Enjoy a discussion with artists and scholars connected with the production immediately following the 2 p.m. matinee. Free with admission.

AfterWords Discussion—Tuesday, September 18 and 25; Wednesday, September 26. Join members of the cast and our Artistic staff for a free discussion, immediately following select 7:30 p.m. performances on Tuesday or the 2 p.m. Wednesday matinee.

Open Captioned Performances—Sunday, September 23, 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. For patrons who are deaf or have hearing loss — free service with admission.

Audio Described Performance—Saturday, September 29, 2 p.m. For patrons who are blind or have low vision — free service with admission.

Hartford Stage Announces Casting for “Make Believe” by Bess Wohl HARTFORD, CT — August 9, 2018 — Hartford Stage Artistic Director Darko Tresnjak and Managing Director Michael Stotts today announced the cast and creative team for Make Believe, written by Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle award-winning playwright Bess Wohl.

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New York caricaturist and illustrator Sam Norkin has passed away . He worked for the New York Herald Tribune and the New York Daily News. 

Image from the Library’s Digital Gallery. 

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Obit of the Day: Quite a Caricaturist Sam Norkin drew over 4000 cartoons representing Broadway shows, musical performances, operas, and films (above, Long Day's Journey Into Night) in his sixty year career. Working originally for the New York Herald Tribune he moved over to the New York Daily News and spent the remainder of his career there. Norkin was a prodigy entering muralist Mordi Gassner's program for teenagers at age nine. He also studied at the Metropolitan Art School and Cooper Union. He became a professional artist when the Herald-Tribune purchased his illustration advertising the play Mr. and Mrs. North directed by Alfred Hitchcock. (OOTD had no idea that Hitchcock directed on Broadway. The Norths, btw, were a husband and wife detective team.) He was paid $15. They hired him full-time in 1940 and he stayed with the paper until he moved to the Daily News in 1956. Norkin was also a member, and one-time president, of the Drama Desk Board, one of several groups that present awards to the theater industry in New York. Beginning in 2012, the Sam Norkin Off-Broadway Award will be presented for the first time. Norkin was 94. (Image courtesy of amazon.com. The version of LDJIN that Norkin captured starred, from left to right, Katherine Hepburn, Jason Robards (All the President's Men), Dean Stockwell (Quantum Leap), and Sir Ralph Richardson (Dragonslayer). Hepburn was nominated for an Academy Award. It was directed by the late Sidney Lumet.)

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A scene from Hamlet drawn by cartoonist Sam Norkin. The original caption reads:

MY SON, THE NUT—Richard Burton, as Hamlet, sees his father’s ghost and Eileen Herlie, as his mother, thinks he’s lost his marbles in this scene from the new production. This version of the Shakespeare play, at Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, uses no scenery or formal costumes.