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J.B. Priestley

Date of Death: August 14, 1984 (89)

Birth Place: ENGLAND

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Rosedale Community Players to Present AN INSPECTOR CALLS This Month


Join the Rosedale Community Players in Southfield, Michigan for their gripping production of AN INSPECTOR CALLS. Learn more about the show and see how to purchase tickets.

EGTG Celebrates 70 Years Of Amateur Theatre In Edinburgh


Local amateur theatre company, Edinburgh Graduate Theatre Group (EGTG), will celebrate 70 years of producing theatre in 2024, with a bumper season of theatrical productions, drama workshops, and more. 

Photos: First Look at Kentwood Players' AN INSPECTOR CALLS at Westchester Playhouse


Kentwood Players will present J.B. Priestley’s suspenseful drama An Inspector Calls directed by James Rice and produced by Lyndsay Palmer and Marty Feldman for Kentwood Players with rights secured from Dramatists Play Service. Performances take place Friday, September 15 through Saturday, October 7 on Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm, and Sundays at 2pm. Check out photos here!

Kentwood Players Awarded Grants to Support Pandemic Recovery


Kentwood Players has been awarded grants totaling $18,700.52 through the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture and Community Partners' Creative Recovery LA Initiative as part of over 750 arts, cultural, and equity-building organizations, reflecting a historic County investment in the nonprofit creative sector.

Corn Exchange Newbury Announces Summer 2023 Programme


It’s a summer of fun in Newbury, as Corn Exchange announce their April-July programme. This inclusive and exciting season highlights some of the best and brightest of theatre, comedy, music, circus and dance, celebrating talents from Newbury and beyond.

AN INSPECTOR CALLS Comes to The Barnstable Comedy Club


The Barnstable Comedy Club, located at 3171 Main Street in Barnstable, will present AN INSPECTOR CALLS by J.B. Priestley. James F. Ring directs this classic British thriller which opens on Thursday, March 2 at 7:30 and continues through March 19 with performances at 7:30 on Friday and Saturday evenings and Sunday matinees at 2:30 PM.

The Belgrade Theatre Announces Its Autumn / Winter 2022 Season; SIX, ROCKY HORROR, and More!


The Belgrade Theatre has announced the first shows in its Autumn / Winter 2022 season, with highlights including West End musical smash hits SIX, The Rocky Horror Show and Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, brand new musical Bombay Superstar, classic drama An Inspector Calls and The Mousetrap, as well as Malorie Blackman's Noughts & Crosses.

New Hampshire Theatre Project's 2021-22 MainStage Season Concludes With AN INSPECTOR CALLS


New Hampshire Theatre Project's 2021-22 MainStage season concludes May 6-22 with the classic mystery drama An Inspector Calls by J. B Priestley. A young girl commits suicide and an eminently respectable upper middle class family is subject to a routine inquiry in connection with her death. An inspector calls to interrogate the family about their possible roles in her undoing. 

BWW Review: CONSTELLATIONS at Bakehouse Theatre


Fluid and superlative performances.

Former Shaw Festival Artistic Director Christopher Newton Passes Away at 85


The Shaw Festival is mourning the death of Christopher Newton, former artistic director, who died peacefully yesterday morning at the age of 85. Actor, stage manager, playwright, artistic director, Mr. Newton made a momentous impact and life-long contributions to the Canadian theatre landscape and performing arts.

New Hampshire Theatre Project Announces 2021-22 MainStage Season


Emerging from an 18-month pandemic-induced hiatus from MainStage productions, NHTP is planning only four major productions this season, with many additional outreach activities, guest appearances and Elephant-in-the-Room Series programs to be announced at a later date.

Mint Theater Company Continues Silver Lining Streaming Series With WOMEN WITHOUT MEN


Mint Theater Company will continue its Silver Lining Streaming Series with the on-demand streaming of the three-camera archival recording (filmed in HD!) of Women Without Men by Hazel Ellis, directed by Jenn Thompson beginning Monday, February 22nd, and continuing through March 21st.

Mint Theater Continues Silver Lining Streaming Series With KATIE ROCHE by Teresa Deevy


Mint Theater Company will continue its Silver Lining Streaming Series with the on-demand streaming of the three-camera archival recording (filmed in HD!) of Katie Roche by Teresa Deevy, directed by Jonathan Bank, beginning February 1st and continuing through March 28th The price of admission is FREE.

Mint Theater Kicks Off Silver Lining Streaming Series With DAYS TO COME


Mint Theater Company will kick off its Silver Lining Streaming Series today with the on-demand streaming of the HD recording of Days To Come by Lillian Hellman (The Little Foxes, Watch on the Rhine, Toys in the Attic, The Children's Hour), directed by J.R. Sullivan, beginning January 4th and continuing through February 21st. 

Mint Theater Company Continues Free Streaming Series With DAYS TO COME, KATIE ROCHE and More


Mint Theater Company Artistic Director Jonathan Bank today announced the line-up for Mint’s popular Streaming Series for 2021, featuring HD recordings of past productions: Days To Come by Lillian Hellman, directed by J.R. Sullivan (will begin airing January 4th and continue through February 21st); plus much more!

AN INSPECTOR CALLS Comes to the Historic Arcade Theatre


Florida Repertory Theatre has announced the opening of 'An Inspector Calls' by J.B. Priestley to continue it's 2019-2020 Season. Playing in the Historic Arcade Theatre Dec. 6-22, the run includes four nearly sold-out previews Dec. 3-5.

Belgrade Theatre Unveils Spring Season 2020 And My Belgrade Subscriptions


With its Autumn 2019 Season now in full swing, the Belgrade Theatre is already looking forward to another exciting year ahead with the announcement of its Spring Season 2020. 

BWW Review: AN INSPECTOR CALLS at ARTS Theatre


This was Priestley's indictment of the British class system and it is still relevant.

BWW Review: AN INSPECTOR CALLS: Gripping Revival Rings True


The U.S. tour of the National Theatre's multiple award-winning production of J.B. Priestley's classic thriller, AN INSPECTOR CALLS, presented by ArtsEmerson at Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre, features masterful direction by Stephen Daldry (who also directed the 1992 West End revival), Ian MacNeil's grand-scale set, spectacular design elements (lighting, sound, and music), as well as a sterling cast of British actors in the principal roles, making you feel as if you have crossed the pond and are in attendance at the venerable National Theatre. Written in 1945 at the end of World War II, Priestley set the action in the fictional town of Brumley, England, in 1912, when the winds of the Great War were in the offing, and these bookends provide a sociopolitical arc to the plot. Pitting the attitudes of the wealthy proponents of industrial capitalism against the socialist view of the needs of the working class, the play strikingly resonates with the current climate of privilege, income inequality, and #MeToo.

BWW Review: AN INSPECTOR CALLS at Chicago Shakespeare Theater


AN INSPECTOR CALLS is a gripping theatrical experience from start-to-finish. Director Stephen Daldry's breathtaking revival of J.B. Priestley's 1946 thriller had its origins in 1992 and comes to Chicago Shakespeare Theater now as part of an international tour from the National Theatre of Great Britain. Though Daldry originally conceived of this staging decades ago and Priestly has set his play in 1912, this production possesses both a timeliness and a timelessness that make it deeply impactful now.

J.B. Priestley FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

How many shows has J.B. Priestley written?

J.B. Priestley has written 15 shows including The Good Companions (Playwright), Dangerous Corner (Playwright), Laburnum Grove (Playwright), Eden End (Playwright), Time and the Conways (Playwright), I Have Been Here Before (Playwright), When We Are Married (Playwright), The Linden Tree (Playwright), Dragon's Mouth (Playwright), A Severed Head (Playwright), The Good Companions (Source Material), An Inspector Calls (Playwright), Dangerous Corner (Playwright), I Have Been Here Before (Playwright), The Glass Cage (Playwright).

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