Margo Jones, the Glossary
Margo Jones (December 12, 1911 – July 24, 1955), nicknamed the "Texas Tornado", was an American stage director and producer, best known for launching the American regional theater movement and for introducing the theater-in-the-round concept in Dallas, Texas.[1]
Table of Contents
85 relations: A Midsummer Night's Dream, After the Fall (play), Albert McCleery, ANTA Washington Square Theatre, Anton Chekhov, Arthur Miller, As You Like It, Barton MacLane, Ben Jonson, California, Cameo Theatre, Candida (play), Carbon tetrachloride, Cock-a-Doodle Dandy, Dallas, Documentary film, Dorothy Parker, Edwin Justus Mayer, Eugene Raskin, Fair Park, Franklin D. Roosevelt, George Bernard Shaw, George Sessions Perry, Geraldine Page, Ghosts (play), Hamlet, Heartbreak House, Hedda Gabler, Henrik Ibsen, Houston, Ingrid Bergman, Inherit the Wind (play), Jacques Offenbach, Jean Giraudoux, Jerome Lawrence, Joan of Arc, Joan of Arc (1948 film), Joan of Lorraine, Joseph Hayes (author), Judith Ivey, Kidney failure, Lady Windermere's Fan, Les Femmes Savantes, Lesley Storm, Livingston, Texas, Magnolia Petroleum Company, Man of La Mancha, Maxwell Anderson, Molière, New York City, ... Expand index (35 more) »
A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy play written by William Shakespeare in about 1595 or 1596.
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After the Fall (play)
After the Fall is a play by the American dramatist Arthur Miller.
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Albert McCleery
Albert McCleery (December 30, 1911 – May 13, 1972) was an American pioneering television producer during the 1950s.
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ANTA Washington Square Theatre
The ANTA Washington Square Theatre was a theatre located on 40 West Fourth Street, in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York City.
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Anton Chekhov
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (29 January 1860 – 15 July 1904) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer.
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Arthur Miller
Arthur Asher Miller (October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005) was an American playwright, essayist and screenwriter in the 20th-century American theater.
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As You Like It
As You Like It is a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 and first published in the First Folio in 1623.
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Barton MacLane
Barton MacLane (December 25, 1902 – January 1, 1969) was an American actor, playwright, and screenwriter.
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Ben Jonson
Benjamin Jonson was an English playwright and poet.
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California
California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.
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Cameo Theatre
Cameo Theatre is an American anthology series that aired on NBC during the Golden Age of Television, from 1950 to 1955, three times as a summer replacement and once as a mid-season replacement for other series.
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Candida (play)
Candida (Shavian: 𐑒𐑩𐑯𐑛𐑦𐑛𐑳), a comedy by playwright George Bernard Shaw, was written in 1894 and first published in 1898, as part of his Plays Pleasant.
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Carbon tetrachloride
Carbon tetrachloride, also known by many other names (such as carbon tet for short and tetrachloromethane, also recognised by the IUPAC) is a chemical compound with the chemical formula CCl4.
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Cock-a-Doodle Dandy
Cock-a-Doodle Dandy is a 1949 play by Irish dramatist Seán O'Casey.
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Dallas
Dallas is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the most populous metropolitan area in Texas and the fourth-most populous metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 million people.
Documentary film
A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a historical record".
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Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker (née Rothschild; August 22, 1893 – June 7, 1967) was an American poet and writer of fiction, plays and screenplays based in New York; she was known for her caustic wisecracks, and eye for 20th-century urban foibles.
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Edwin Justus Mayer
Edwin Justus Mayer (November 8, 1896 – September 11, 1960) was an American screenwriter.
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Eugene Raskin
Eugene Raskin or Gene Raskin (September 5, 1909 in Bronx, New York – June 7, 2004 in Manhattan, New York),, IMDb.com was an American musician and playwright, author of the lyrics of the English version of the Russian song "Those Were the Days" and also of three books on architecture and adjunct professor at Columbia University (1936–1976).
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Fair Park
Fair Park is a recreational and educational complex in Dallas, Texas, United States, located immediately east of downtown.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882April 12, 1945), commonly known by his initials FDR, was an American politician who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945.
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George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist.
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George Sessions Perry
George Sessions Perry (May 5, 1910 – December 13, 1956) was an American novelist, World War II correspondent, and one of the highest paid popular magazine contributors of his time.
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Geraldine Page
Geraldine Sue Page (November 22, 1924June 13, 1987) was an American actress.
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Ghosts (play)
Ghosts (Gengangere) is a play by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen.
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Hamlet
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, usually shortened to Hamlet, is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601.
Heartbreak House
Heartbreak House: A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes is a play written by George Bernard Shaw, first published in 1919.
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Hedda Gabler
Hedda Gabler is a play written by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen.
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Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Johan Ibsen (20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906) was a Norwegian playwright and theatre director.
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Houston
Houston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and in the Southern United States.
Ingrid Bergman
Ingrid Bergman (29 August 191529 August 1982) was a Swedish actress.
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Inherit the Wind (play)
Inherit the Wind is an American play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee, which debuted in Dallas under the direction of Margo Jones in 1955.
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Jacques Offenbach
Jacques Offenbach (20 June 18195 October 1880) was a German-born French composer, cellist and impresario.
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Jean Giraudoux
Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux (29 October 1882 – 31 January 1944) was a French novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright.
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Jerome Lawrence
Jerome Lawrence (born Jerome Lawrence Schwartz; July 14, 1915 – February 29, 2004) was an American playwright and author.
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Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc (translit; Jehanne Darc; – 30 May 1431) is a patron saint of France, honored as a defender of the French nation for her role in the siege of Orléans and her insistence on the coronation of Charles VII of France during the Hundred Years' War.
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Joan of Arc (1948 film)
Joan of Arc is a 1948 American hagiographic epic film directed by Victor Fleming, and starring Ingrid Bergman as the eponymous French religious icon and war heroine.
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Joan of Lorraine
Joan of Lorraine is a 1946 play-within-a-play by Maxwell Anderson.
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Joseph Hayes (August 2, 1918 – September 11, 2006) was an American playwright, novelist and screenwriter born in Indianapolis, Indiana, the son of Harold Joseph, a furniture dealer, and Pearl M. Arnold Hayes.
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Judith Ivey
Judith Lee Ivey (born September 4, 1951) is an American actress and theatre director. Margo Jones and Judith Ivey are American theatre directors and American women theatre directors.
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Kidney failure
Kidney failure, also known as end-stage renal disease (ESRD), is a medical condition in which the kidneys can no longer adequately filter waste products from the blood, functioning at less than 15% of normal levels. Kidney failure is classified as either acute kidney failure, which develops rapidly and may resolve; and chronic kidney failure, which develops slowly and can often be irreversible.
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Lady Windermere's Fan
Lady Windermere's Fan, A Play About a Good Woman is a four-act comedy by Oscar Wilde, first performed on Saturday, 20 February 1892, at the St James's Theatre in London.
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Les Femmes Savantes
Les Femmes savantes (The Learned Ladies) is a comedy by Molière in five acts, written in verse.
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Lesley Storm
Lesley Storm was the pen-name of Mabel Cowie (1898–1975), also known by her married name of Mabel Clark.
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Livingston, Texas
Livingston is a town in and the county seat of Polk County, Texas, United States.
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Magnolia Petroleum Company
The Magnolia Petroleum Company was an early twentieth-century petroleum company in Texas.
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Man of La Mancha
Man of La Mancha is a 1965 musical with a book by Dale Wasserman, music by Mitch Leigh, and lyrics by Joe Darion.
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Maxwell Anderson
James Maxwell Anderson (December 15, 1888 – February 28, 1959) was an American playwright, author, poet, journalist, and lyricist.
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Molière
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (15 January 1622 (baptised) – 17 February 1673), known by his stage name Molière, was a French playwright, actor, and poet, widely regarded as one of the great writers in the French language and world literature.
New York City
New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.
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Oliver Goldsmith
Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1728 – 4 April 1774) was an Anglo-Irish writer best known for his works such as The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), The Good-Natur'd Man (1768), The Deserted Village (1770) and She Stoops to Conquer (1771).
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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright.
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PBS
The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and non-commercial, free-to-air television network based in Crystal City, Virginia.
Ray Walston
Herman Raymond Walston (November 2, 1914 – January 1, 2001) was an American actor and comedian.
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Reginald Denham
Reginald Denham (10 January 1894 – 4 February 1983) was an English writer, theatre and film director, actor and film producer.
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan (30 October 17517 July 1816) was an Anglo-Irish playwright, writer and Whig politician who sat in the British House of Commons from 1780 to 1812, representing the constituencies of Stafford, Westminster and Ilchester.
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Richard Thomas (actor)
Richard Earl Thomas (born June 13, 1951) is an American actor.
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Rinehart & Company
Rinehart & Company was an American publishing company founded in 1946.
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Robert E. Lee (playwright)
Robert Edwin Lee (October 15, 1918 – July 8, 1994) was an American playwright and lyricist.
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Robin Maugham
Robert Cecil Romer Maugham, 2nd Viscount Maugham (17 May 1916 – 13 March 1981), known as Robin Maugham, was a British author.
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Samson Raphaelson
Samson Raphaelson (March 30, 1894 – July 16, 1983) was an American playwright, screenwriter and fiction writer.
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Scopes trial
The Scopes trial, formally The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes, and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was an American legal case from July 10 to July 21, 1925, in which a high school teacher, John T. Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which had made it illegal for teachers to teach human evolution in any state-funded school.
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Seán O'Casey
Seán O'Casey (Seán Ó Cathasaigh; born John Casey; 30 March 1880 – 18 September 1964) was an Irish dramatist and memoirist.
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She Stoops to Conquer
She Stoops to Conquer is a comedy by Oliver Goldsmith, first performed in London in 1773.
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Summer and Smoke
Summer and Smoke is a two-part, thirteen-scene play by Tennessee Williams, completed in 1948.
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Tennessee Williams
Thomas Lanier Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983), known by his pen name Tennessee Williams, was an American playwright and screenwriter.
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The Apollo of Bellac
The Apollo of Bellac (L'Apollon de Bellac or L'Apollon de Marsac) is a comedic one-act play written in 1942 by French dramatist Jean Giraudoux.
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The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs is a 1957 play by William Inge about family conflicts during the early 1920s in a small Oklahoma town.
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The Glass Menagerie
The Glass Menagerie is a memory play by Tennessee Williams that premiered in 1944 and catapulted Williams from obscurity to fame.
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The Importance of Being Earnest
The Importance of Being Earnest, a Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde.
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The Master Builder
The Master Builder (Bygmester Solness) is a play by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen.
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The Merchant of Venice
The Merchant of Venice is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1596 and 1598.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The Saturday Evening Post
The Saturday Evening Post is an American magazine, currently published six times a year.
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The Sea Gull
The Sea Gull is a 1968 British-American drama film directed by Sidney Lumet.
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The Taming of the Shrew
The Taming of the Shrew is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1590 and 1592.
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Theatre director
A theatre director or stage director is a professional in the theatre field who oversees and orchestrates the mounting of a theatre production such as a play, opera, dance, drama, musical theatre performance, etc.
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Theatre in the round
A theatre in the round, arena theatre, or central staging is a space for theatre in which the audience surrounds the stage.
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Theatrical producer
A theatrical producer is a person who oversees all aspects of mounting a theatre production.
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Twelfth Night
Twelfth Night, or What You Will is a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written around 1601–1602 as a Twelfth Night entertainment for the close of the Christmas season.
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Volpone
Volpone (Italian for "sly fox") is a comedy play by English playwright Ben Jonson first produced in 1605–1606, drawing on elements of city comedy and beast fable.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States.
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William Goyen
Charles William Goyen (April 24, 1915 – August 30, 1983) was an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, poet, editor, and teacher.
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William Inge
William Motter Inge (May 3, 1913 – June 10, 1973) was an American playwright and novelist, whose works typically feature solitary protagonists encumbered with strained sexual relations.
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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare (23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margo_Jones
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