TV: DOUBT: In Conversation with John Patrick Shanley

By: Dec. 18, 2008
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Last month, BroadwayWorld.com's own Eddie Varley flew to Los Angeles to attend the press junket for the highly aniticipated big screen adapation of John Patrick Shanley's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Doubt.

Oscar, Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright-director John Patrick Shanley brings his searing drama Doubt to the silver screen. Shanley wrote the screenplay and directs the film adaptation of his Tony winning hit. He spent time with BroadwayWorld to reveal his excitement on telling his story on a bigger visual canvas, the movie casting and why the story is so affecting to an audience.

Shanley's first musical, "Romantic Poetry," recently opened Off-Broadway at Manhattan Theatre Club.

John Patrick Shanley's plays include Defiance; Danny and the Deep Blue Sea; Savage in Limbo; the dreamer examines his pillow; Beggars in the House of Plenty; Welcome to the Moon; Four Dogs and a Bone; Italian American Reconciliation; The Big Funk; Where's My Money; Dirty Story; Sailor's Song; and Romantic Poetry (a musical) which will open Manhattan Theatre Club's Fall season. His play DOUBT was awarded the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the 2005 Tony Award for Best Play. In addition to his works for the stage, Shanley adapted the films Alive and Congo; his original screenplays include Five Corners, The January Man, Joe Versus the Volcano, and Moonstruck, for which he received an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.

Doubt opened on Broadway on March 9th, 2005 and ran through July 2nd, 2006; it had originally played a hit run at Manhattan Theatre Club. With Tony-winning performances by Cherry Jones and Adriane Lenox, and Tony-nominated work by Brian F. O'Byrne, the show won the 2005 Tony Award for Best Play in addition to the Pulitzer Prize. Doug Hughes won a Tony for directing the play.

"Set against the backdrop of a Bronx Catholic school in 1964, the show is the story of a strong-minded woman faced with a difficult decision. Should she voice concerns about one of her male colleagues...even if she's not entirely certain of the truth?," stated press notes for the show's Broadway run.

Doubt will be released in the United States this month, with a limited release beginning on December 12th.



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