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Keanu Reeves Biography

Keanu Reeves actorBorn: 9/2/1964Birthplace: Beirut, Lebanon Despite a deadpan style, Keanu Reeves has developed an impressive portfolio of acting parts. His theatrical start at Shakespeare and…

Kenneth Branagh Biography

Kenneth Branaghactor, director, producerBorn: 12/10/1960Birthplace: Belfast, Northern Ireland Having escaped the poverty of his childhood in Belfast, Branagh moved to London to study at the Royal…

Plays by William Shakespeare

William ShakespeareContentsThe TempestDramatis PersonaeAct IScene IScene IIAct IIScene IScene IIAct IIIScene IScene IIScene IIIAct IVScene IAct VScene IEpilogueTwo Gentlemen of VeronaDramatis…

Mark Rylance

Name at birth: David Mark Rylance WatersMark Rylance is the celebrated British stage actor who won an Academy Award for playing Russian spy Rudolf Abel in the 2015 movie Bridge of Spies. Television…

Brewer's: Fuss

Much ado about nothing. (Anglo-Saxon, fus, eager.) So full of figure, so full of fuss, She seemed to be nothing but bustle. Hood: Miss Kilmansegg, part iii. stanza 12. Source: Dictionary…

1972–1973 Obie Awards

Best American PlayJoseph A. Walker, The River NigerLanford Wilson, The Hot L BaltimoreBest Foreign PlaySamuel Beckett, Not IPeter Handke, KasparDistinguished PlaysJ.E. Gaines, What if It Had…

Brewer's: Midi

Chercher midi à quatorze heures. To look for knots in a bulrush; much ado about nothing; to explain prosily what is perfectly obvious. There is a variant of this locution: Chercher midi où…

1985 Tony Awards

PlayBiloxi BluesMusicalBig RiverReproduction—Play or MusicalJoe EggActor—PlayDerek Jacobi, Much Ado About NothingActress—PlayStockard Channing, Joe EggFeatured Actor—PlayBarry Miller, Biloxi…

Kenneth Branagh

Name at birth: Kenneth Charles BranaghKenneth Branagh was 29 years old when he became an instant Hollywood celebrity as the writer, director and star of the 1989 film adaptation of William…

Brewer's: Fiddle About

(To). To fiddle about a thing means to “play” business. To fiddle with one's fingers is to move them about as a fiddler moves his fingers up and down the fiddle-strings. “Mere trifling, or…