Search

GETTING TINA PACKER AND JON JORY IN THE same room for an interview is not an easy task. The two of them spend much of their time crisscrossing the country [...]

Profiles two of the south's leading storytellers, playwright-director Jon Jory, the creative force of Actors Theatre of Louisville, and producer-writer-television show creator Linda Bloodworth-Thomason. Styles; Careers; Backgrounds; Impact on acting world. INSET: Spotlight south (artist from/in south)..

Reviews two plays "The Queen and the State," directed by Waris Hussein and written by Ugo Betti and "Talking With," directed by Jon Jory and written by Jane Martin.

The author, in this article, presents information about Humana Festival by Actors Theatre of Louisville in Kentucky. When Actors Theatre's artistic director Jon Jory began the festival in 1976, few regional theaters were soliciting unproduced scripts. The festival burst on the scene with a string of early successes. In its first five years alone, two festival plays won Pulitzer Prizes. In the three decades since, plenty of other regional theaters have begun to nurture new playwrights. While Actors Theatre no longer has the market cornered on brilliant new dramas. INSET: ITINERARY.

Comments on the 1982 Festival of New American Plays held at the Actor's Theatre in Louisville, Kentucky. Role of playwright Jon Jory in the event; Participation of Doug Riske, artistic director of Alberta Theatre Projects, and Frank Moher, literary manager of Northern Light Theatre, in the event; Views on several plays presented in the festival.

The article offers information on the third Derby Kentucky's Festival of New American Plays organized by Jon Jory of the Kentucky's Actors Theater of Louisville in March 1979. The two-day event will feature six plays and three workshop productions. The festival will show two relatively short works of James McLure such as "Pvt. Wars," a story about brain-bruised veterans of war confined in a mental ward and "Lone Star," a story of a Vietnam war veteran named Roy who wanted to escape from a changed Texas and preserve his youthful past. Moreover, playwright Olwen Wymark will show a searing anatomy of pain of an American woman who lives in England in her play "Find Me," while Beth Henley's "Crimes of the Heart" spins out a web of relations among three sisters in Mississippi.

The article offers information on the sixth annual festival of new American plays by the Actors Theater of Louisville. Established by director Jon Jory, the festival offers several U.S. dramas "The New Girl" by Vaughn McBride, "Handler," and "Oldtimers Game" by Lee Blessings. It also features adaptations of "The Grapes of Wrath" and "The Informer."

After more than 30 years as the artistic director of the Actors Theatre of Louisville (ATL), Jon Jory will join Seattle's School of Drama at the University of Washington as [...]

The dark side of the American experience dominates Jon Jory's farewell edition of the Humana Festival 'The American theatre is in a shitload of trouble!' proclaims the stage manager in [...]

This article reviews a revival of Jane Austen's play "Pride and Prejudice," directed by Jon Jory performed at the Alliance Theater Co. in Atlanta, Georgia through February 12, 2006.

This article reports that the play "Pride and Prejudice" will be staged in Atlanta, Georgia during January 11, 2006 to February 12, 2006. This tale of romance is directed by Jon Jory. It is adapted from the book "Pride and Prejudice," by Jane Austen. Austen explores social status and matters of the heart in the book.

Lists several tips or laws from retiring theater director Jon Jory. Jory's regrets; Plays that are guaranteed to make money; Significance of cost in play productions.

The article reviews the plays "Talking With," directed by Jon Jory, and starring Margo Martindale, Lisa Goodman, and Anne Pitoniak, performed at the Manhattan Theater Club, and "Baseball Wives," directed by Grubb Graebner, and starring Lynn Goodwin and Marcella Lowery, performed at the Harold Clurman.

Reports that theatrical director Jon Jory has decided to leave his post at the Actors Theater of Louisville, to accept a teaching position at the University of Washington in Seattle. Future career plans of Jory; Driving factors for the director's decision to leave his post; Legacy left by Jory after his departure.

The article reports that the new theatre season in Arizona includes the premiere of Jon Jory's latest work and a disappointing offering from the state's largest dinner theatre just when it will soon be facing its first true competition. Arizona Theatre Co. asked Jory to direct his adaptation of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice." Jory has cleverly crafted a narrative structure in which everyone moves the plot forward with description and commentary; he has also shrunk the novel's regiment of characters to a core of 25. Mesa Arts Center's Broadway Palm Dinner Theatre opens its season not so much with a flourish but a halfhearted wave in its presentation of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's "Camelot."

Focuses on Jon Jory, a former artistic director of the Actors Theatre of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky. Future plans of Jory; Information on Jory's wife; Comments from Jory.

Announces the resignation of Jon Jory as the producing director of the Actors Theater of Louisville (ATL) in Kentucky. Reason for his resignation at ATL; Accomplishments of ATL under Jory; Views of writer Marsha Norman on ATL and Jory.