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Jerry Zaks

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Jerry Zaks (born September 7, 1946) is a German-born American stage and television director, and actor. [1]

73 relations: A Bronx Tale (musical), A Bronx Tale (play), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Actor, American Theater Hall of Fame, Anything Goes, Beyond Therapy, Broadway theatre, Bye Bye Birdie, Christopher Durang, City centre, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Dartmouth College, Doctorate, Drama Desk Award, Encores!, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Epic Proportions, Everybody Loves Raymond, Frasier, George Abbott, Germany, Girl Crazy, Grease (musical), Guys and Dolls, Hello, Dolly! (musical), Hope & Faith, Husbands and Wives, La Cage aux Folles (musical), Laughter on the 23rd Floor, Lend Me a Tenor, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Little Shop of Horrors (musical), M*A*S*H (TV series), Marvin's Room (film), Master of Fine Arts, Meteor Shower (play), NAACP Image Awards, New Jersey, Obie Award, Off-Broadway, Outer Critics Circle Award, Outrageous Fortune (film), Playwrights Horizons, Sigourney Weaver, Sister Act (musical), Six Degrees of Separation (play), Smith College, Smokey Joe's Cafe, Stage (theatre), ..., Stuttgart, Swing!, Television director, The 101 Dalmatians Musical, The Addams Family (musical), The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, The Civil War (musical), The Edge of Night, The Front Page, The Holocaust, The House of Blue Leaves, The Man Who Came to Dinner, The New York Times, The Public Theater, The Tap Dance Kid, Tintypes, Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical, Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play, Two and a Half Men, United States, Who Do You Love? (2008 film), 20th Moscow International Film Festival, 45 Seconds from Broadway. Expand index (23 more) »

A Bronx Tale (musical)

A Bronx Tale is a musical based on the play by the same name with a book by Chazz Palminteri, music by Alan Menken, and lyrics by Glenn Slater.

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A Bronx Tale (play)

A Bronx Tale is an autobiographical one-man show written and performed by Chazz Palminteri.

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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart.

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Actor

An actor (often actress for women; see terminology) is a person who portrays a character in a performance.

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American Theater Hall of Fame

The American Theater Hall of Fame in New York City was founded in 1972.

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Anything Goes

Anything Goes is a 1934 musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter.

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Beyond Therapy

Beyond Therapy is a play by Christopher Durang.

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Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre,Although theater is the generally preferred spelling in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many Broadway venues, performers and trade groups for live dramatic presentations use the spelling theatre.

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Bye Bye Birdie

Bye Bye Birdie is a stage musical with a book by Michael Stewart, lyrics by Lee Adams and music by Charles Strouse.

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Christopher Durang

Christopher Ferdinand Durang (born January 2, 1949) is an American playwright known for works of outrageous and often absurd comedy.

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City centre

A city centre is the commercial, cultural and often the historical, political and geographic heart of a city, especially those in the Western world.

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Crimes and Misdemeanors

Crimes and Misdemeanors is a 1989 American existential comedy-drama film written and directed by Woody Allen, who stars alongside Martin Landau, Mia Farrow, Anjelica Huston, Jerry Orbach, Alan Alda, Sam Waterston and Joanna Gleason.

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Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College is a private Ivy League research university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States.

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Doctorate

A doctorate (from Latin docere, "to teach") or doctor's degree (from Latin doctor, "teacher") or doctoral degree (from the ancient formalism licentia docendi) is an academic degree awarded by universities that is, in most countries, a research degree that qualifies the holder to teach at the university level in the degree's field, or to work in a specific profession.

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Drama Desk Award

The Drama Desk Awards are presented annually and were first awarded in 1955 to recognize excellence in New York theatre productions on Broadway, Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway.

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Encores!

Encores! is a Tony-honored concert series dedicated to performing rarely heard American musicals, usually with their original orchestrations.

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Ensemble Studio Theatre

The Ensemble Studio Theatre (EST) is a non-profit membership-based developmental theatre located in Hell's Kitchen, New York City.

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Epic Proportions

Epic Proportions is a play by Larry Coen and David Crane.

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Everybody Loves Raymond

Everybody Loves Raymond is an American sitcom television series created by Philip Rosenthal that aired on CBS from September 13, 1996 to May 16, 2005, with a total of 210 episodes spanning over nine seasons.

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Frasier

Frasier is an American sitcom that was broadcast on NBC for 11 seasons, premiering on September 16, 1993, and concluding on May 13, 2004.

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George Abbott

George Francis Abbott (June 25, 1887 – January 31, 1995) was an American theater producer and director, playwright, screenwriter, and film director and producer whose career spanned nine decades.

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Germany

Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.

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Girl Crazy

Girl Crazy is a 1930 musical with music by George Gershwin, lyrics by Ira Gershwin and book by Guy Bolton and John McGowan.

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Grease (musical)

Grease is a 1971 musical by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey.

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Guys and Dolls

Guys and Dolls is a musical with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows.

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Hello, Dolly! (musical)

Hello, Dolly! is a 1964 musical with lyrics and music by Jerry Herman and a book by Michael Stewart.

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Hope & Faith

Hope & Faith is an American television sitcom, starring Faith Ford and Kelly Ripa as Hope Shanowski and Faith Fairfield.

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Husbands and Wives

Husbands and Wives is a 1992 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Woody Allen.

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La Cage aux Folles (musical)

La Cage aux Folles is a musical with a book by Harvey Fierstein and lyrics and music by Jerry Herman.

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Laughter on the 23rd Floor

Laughter on the 23rd Floor is a 1993 play by Neil Simon.

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Lend Me a Tenor

Lend Me a Tenor is a comedy by Ken Ludwig.

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Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts is a complex of buildings in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of the borough of Manhattan in New York City.

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Little Shop of Horrors (musical)

Little Shop of Horrors is a horror comedy rock musical, by composer Alan Menken and writer Howard Ashman, about a hapless florist shop worker who raises a plant that feeds on human blood and flesh.

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M*A*S*H (TV series)

M*A*S*H is an American television series that aired on CBS from 1972 to 1983.

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Marvin's Room (film)

Marvin's Room is a 1996 American drama film directed by Jerry Zaks.

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Master of Fine Arts

A Master of Fine Arts (MFA or M.F.A.) is a creative degree in fine arts, including visual arts, creative writing, graphic design, photography, filmmaking, dance, theatre, other performing arts—or in some cases, theatre management or arts administration.

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Meteor Shower (play)

Meteor Shower is a 2016 play written by Steve Martin.

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NAACP Image Awards

The NAACP Image Award is an annual awards ceremony presented by the American National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) to honor outstanding people of color in film, television, music, and literature.

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New Jersey

New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the Northeastern United States.

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Obie Award

The Obie Awards or Off-Broadway Theater Awards are annual awards originally given by The Village Voice newspaper to theatre artists and groups in New York City.

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Off-Broadway

An Off-Broadway theatre is any professional venue in Manhattan in New York City with a seating capacity between 100 and 499, inclusive.

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Outer Critics Circle Award

The Outer Critics Circle Awards are presented annually for theatrical achievements both on Broadway and Off-Broadway.

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Outrageous Fortune (film)

Outrageous Fortune is a 1987 American comedy film written by Leslie Dixon, directed by Arthur Hiller and starring Shelley Long and Bette Midler.

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Playwrights Horizons

Playwrights Horizons is a not-for-profit Off-Broadway theater located in New York City dedicated to the support and development of contemporary American playwrights, composers, and lyricists, and to the production of their new work.

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Sigourney Weaver

Susan Alexandra Weaver (born October 8, 1949), known professionally as Sigourney Weaver, is an American actress.

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Sister Act (musical)

Sister Act is a musical based on the hit 1992 film of the same name, with music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Glenn Slater, book by Bill and Cheri Steinkellner and additional book material by Douglas Carter Beane.

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Six Degrees of Separation (play)

Six Degrees of Separation is a play written by American playwright John Guare that premiered in 1990.

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Smith College

Smith College is a private, independent women's liberal arts college with coed graduate and certificate programs in Northampton, Massachusetts.

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Smokey Joe's Cafe

Smokey Joe's Cafe is a musical revue showcasing 39 pop standards, including rock and roll and rhythm and blues songs written by songwriters Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller.

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Stage (theatre)

In theatre and performing arts, the stage (sometimes referred to as the deck in stagecraft) is a designated space for the performance of productions.

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Stuttgart

Stuttgart (Swabian: italics,; names in other languages) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg.

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Swing!

Swing! is a musical conceived by Paul Kelly with music by various artists.

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Television director

A television director is in charge of the activities involved in making a television program, or section of a programme.

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The 101 Dalmatians Musical

The 101 Dalmatians Musical is a musical produced by Luis Alvarez, directed by Jerry Zaks, and sponsored by Purina Dog Chow.

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The Addams Family (musical)

The Addams Family is a musical comedy with music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa and the book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice.

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The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial

The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial is a two-act play, of the courtroom drama type, that was dramatized for the stage by Herman Wouk, which he adapted from his own novel, The Caine Mutiny. Wouk's novel covered a long stretch of time aboard the USS Caine, a Navy destroyer minesweeper in the Pacific.

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The Civil War (musical)

The Civil War is a musical written by Gregory Boyd and Frank Wildhorn, with lyrics by Jack Murphy and music by Wildhorn.

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The Edge of Night

The Edge of Night is an American television mystery series/soap opera produced by Procter & Gamble.

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The Front Page

The Front Page is a hit Broadway comedy about tabloid newspaper reporters on the police beat, written by former Chicago reporters Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur which was first produced in 1928.

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The Holocaust

The Holocaust, also referred to as the Shoah, was a genocide during World War II in which Nazi Germany, aided by its collaborators, systematically murdered approximately 6 million European Jews, around two-thirds of the Jewish population of Europe, between 1941 and 1945.

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The House of Blue Leaves

The House of Blue Leaves is a play by American playwright John Guare which premiered Off-Broadway in 1971, and was revived in 1986, both Off-Broadway and on Broadway, and was again revived on Broadway in 2011.

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The Man Who Came to Dinner

The Man Who Came to Dinner is a comedy in three acts by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Public Theater

The Public Theater is a New York City arts organization founded as the Shakespeare Workshop in 1954 by Joseph Papp, with the intention of showcasing the works of up-and-coming playwrights and performers.

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The Tap Dance Kid

The Tap Dance Kid is a musical based on the novel Nobody's Family is Going to Change by Louise Fitzhugh.

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Tintypes

Tintypes is a musical revue conceived by Mary Kyte with Mel Marvin and Gary Pearle.

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Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical

This is a list of winners and nominations for the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical.

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Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play

The Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play has been given since 1960.

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Two and a Half Men

Two and a Half Men is an American television sitcom that originally aired on CBS for twelve seasons from September 22, 2003, to February 19, 2015.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Who Do You Love? (2008 film)

Who Do You Love? is a 2008 film that is a biopic of American record producer Leonard Chess (1917-1969).

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20th Moscow International Film Festival

The 20th Moscow International Film Festival was held from 19 to 29 July 1997.

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45 Seconds from Broadway

45 Seconds from Broadway is a comedy by Neil Simon, his thirty-third.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Zaks

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