Leaving the theatre after the performance, I had a flash of intuition that life, after all ( as Rilke said ), is just a search for the nonexistent cup of hot coffee, and that this unpretentious, moving, clever, bitter slice of life was the greatest thing to happen to the American theatre since Brooks Atkinson retired.

* Broadway, by Brooks Atkinson.

New York Times critic Brooks Atkinson said of the play, " a peach ... a roaring Western melodrama ... Humphrey Bogart does the best work of his career as an actor.

** Brooks Atkinson, American theater critic ( b. 1894 )

Slapstick continues to maintain a presence in modern comedy that draws upon its lineage, running in film from Buster Keaton and Louis de Funès to Mel Brooks to the Jackass movies to the Farrelly Brothers, and in live performance from Weber & Fields to Jackie Gleason to Rowan Atkinson.

* Benefactors by Michael Frayn ( Brooks Atkinson Theatre, December 1985 )

* Death and the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman ( Brooks Atkinson Theatre, February 1992 )

Brooks Atkinson of The New York Times praised the musical's integration, stating, " For once, the modest label " musical play " has a precise meaning.

An abridged version opened on Broadway on 26 February 1964 at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, with Emlyn Williams as Pius XII and Jeremy Brett as Father Fontana.

Brooks Atkinson of The New York Times called it " fast, loud, and funny " and added Merman " has never loosed herself with quite so much abandon.

Although Brooks Atkinson thought the score was " hardly more than adequate ", he called Merman " as brassy as ever, glowing like a neon light whenever she steps on the stage.

In the New York Post, Richard Watts called her " a brilliant actress ," and Brooks Atkinson of The New York Times said " she gives an indomitable performance, both as actress and singer ".

The play opened at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre on 9 November 1981 and ran for 200 performances, with Tom Courtenay repeating his performance as Norman and Paul Rogers as " Sir ".

On December 11, 1983, a production directed again by Blakemore and starring Dorothy Loudon, Victor Garber, Brian Murray, Deborah Rush, Douglas Seale, and Amy Wright opened in New York City at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, where it ran for 553 performances.

Sams ' production transferred to Broadway, again at the Brooks Atkinson, on November 1, 2001, with Patti LuPone, Peter Gallagher, Faith Prince, T. R.

" The play opened in February 1935 and Garfield was singled out by critic Brooks Atkinson for having a " splendid sense of character development.

New York Times critic Brooks Atkinson wrote: " After this declaration of ethics, it will be impossible to dismiss Mr Kaufman and Mr Hart as clever jesters with an instinct for the stage.

After four previews, the play's Broadway production opened on June 1, 1978 at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre.

Of her performance in the stage musical, Brooks Atkinson wrote in The New York Times: " Nothing has happened to the shrill little moll whom the town loved in Born Yesterday.

* Atkinson, Brooks.

So unflinching was the portrait that critic Brooks Atkinson famously asked in his review " Although it is expertly done, how can you draw sweet water from a foul well?

She was singled out by The New York Times critic Brooks Atkinson for her early work.

2046 was called the best film of 2005 by Michael Atkinson ( The Village Voice ), Daryl Chin ( Journal of Performance and Art ), Josef Brown ( Vue Weekly ), Sean Burns ( Philadelphia Weekly ), Will Sloan ( The Martingrove Beacon ), and Justine Elias ( The Guardian ), and was ranked among the top ten best films of the year by Manohla Dargis ( The New York Times ), Richard Corliss ( Time Magazine ), Same Adams ( Philadelphia City Paper ), Leslie Camhi ( The Village Voice ), Jason Anderson ( eye Weekly ), Gary Dretzka ( Movie City News ), Godfrey Cheshire ( The Independent Weekly ), Ty Burr ( The Boston Globe ), Liza Bear ( indieWIRE ), Edward Crouse ( The Village Voice ), Jeffrey M. Anderson ( The San Francisco Examiner ), John DeFore ( Austin American Statesman ), Brian Brooks ( indieWIRE ), Chris Barsanti ( Filmcritic. com ), F. X.

After 11 previews, a revival directed by Leonard Foglia opened on April 5, 1998 at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, where it ran for 97 performances.

Brooks Adams preferred the chronicles of Froissart or the style and theorizing of Edward Gibbon, for at least they took a stand on the issues about which they wrote.

`` Take a ride on this one '', Brooks Robinson greeted Hansen as the Bird third sacker grabbed a bat, headed for the plate and bounced a third-inning two-run double off the left-centerfield wall tonight.

After a comparison of the substances half-lives determined by Debierne, Hariett Brooks in 1904, and Otto Hahn and Otto Sackur in 1905, Debierne's chosen name for the new element was retained because it had seniority.

In the " Question and Answer " section of his website, Brooks explains that the " Double Quarter-Pounder with Cheese " meal from McDonald's possesses a special " base frequency " and that he thus recommends it as occasional food for beginning breatharians.

Her almost 60-year career crossed most media frontiers with both supporting and leading roles, but she may be best-remembered for playing the sardonic but engaging title character, a high school teacher, on Our Miss Brooks, and as the Rydell High School principal in the films Grease and Grease 2.

Kaye's show lasted one season, but Arden's display of comic talent and timing set the stage for her to be cast in her most well-known role, Madison High School English teacher Connie Brooks in Our Miss Brooks.

Desilu Productions, jointly owned by Desi Arnaz and Ball during their marriage, was the production company for the Our Miss Brooks television show, which filmed during the same years as I Love Lucy.

It was Ball, according to numerous radio historians, who suggested Arden for Our Miss Brooks after Shirley Booth auditioned for but failed to land the role and Ball – committed at the time to My Favorite Husband – could not.

Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr. ( born April 19, 1931 ) is a software engineer and computer scientist, best known for managing the development of IBM's System / 360 family of computers and the OS / 360 software support package, then later writing candidly about the process in his seminal book The Mythical Man-Month.

In addition to The Mythical Man-Month, Brooks is also known for the paper No Silver Bullet — Essence and Accident in Software Engineering.

In 1964, Brooks founded the Department of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and chaired it for 20 years.

In a 2010 interview by Kevin Kelly for an article in Wired Magazine, Brooks was asked " What do you consider your greatest technological achievement?

Brooks has enjoyed one of the most successful careers in popular music history, breaking records for both sales and concert attendance throughout the 1990s.

He was the youngest child of Troyal Raymond Brooks, a draftsman for an oil company, and Colleen Carroll, a 1950s-era country singer who recorded on the Capitol Records label and appeared on Ozark Jubilee.

After spending time in Los Angeles during the 1992 riots, Brooks co-wrote the gospel-country-rock hybrid " We Shall Be Free " to express his desire for tolerance.

Despite the disdain of the British media, Brooks's overall popularity in the country was evident, with a top disc jockey, Nick Barraclough, referring to Brooks as Garth Vader ( a play on Darth Vader ) for his " invasion " of the charts and his success in the country genre.

Unlike Alan Jackson, who refused to return to the UK after being treated in a similar manner by the press, Brooks returned in 1996 for more sold-out concerts, although this time his media appearances were mostly restricted to country radio and interviews with magazines.

To create buzz for the project, Brooks took on the identity of Gaines in the October 1999 album Garth Brooks in ...

Brooks also subsequently appeared as Gaines in a television mockumentary for the VH1 series Behind the Music and as the musical guest on an episode of Saturday Night Live which he hosted as himself.

Although critics admired Brooks for taking a musical risk, the majority of the American public was either totally bewildered, or completely unreceptive to the idea of Garth Brooks as anything but a pop-country singer.