Ian Shaw (actor)
| Born | December 18, 1969 |
| Hometown | London, England |
| Parents | Robert Shaw, Mary Ure |
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Jaws Star Richard Dreyfuss Was ‘Hurt’ by The Shark Is Broken Play
- Jaws is one of the best animal attack movies about the hunt for a great white shark who went after beachgoers. Ian Shaw, son of the late Robert Shaw, who played shark hunter Quint, wrote all about that movie in the play The Shark is Broken. This play centers on the behind-the-scenes relationship between Shaw, […] The post Jaws Star Richard Dreyfuss Was ‘Hurt’ by The Shark Is Broken Play appeared first on ComingSoon.net - Movie Trailers, TV & Streaming News, and More.
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Inside ‘The Shark Is Broken,’ the Meta Play About the Making of ‘Jaws’
From Ian Shaw, the son of Jaws star Robert Shaw, the play examines how Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, and Roy Scheider battled their way to a masterpiece
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Ian Shaw: Broadway's 'Shark is Broken' play is a love letter to late dad and 'Jaws'
Ian Shaw told UPI his new Broadway show, "The Shark is Broken," is intended to honor his late father, Robert Shaw, and his co-stars Roy Scheider and Richard Dreyfuss from the classic 1975 movie "Jaws."
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‘The Shark Is Broken’ Review: Broadway Play About the Making of ‘Jaws’ Is No Blockbuster
Anything that has to do with Steven Spielberg’s award-winning 1975 film “Jaws” should be fun. After all, it’s a movie about the sudden appearance of a freakishly large, man-eating shark in a quaint New England vacation spot on a packed Fourth of July weekend, and the trio of men — a weathered shark hunter, an …
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Review: ‘The Shark Is Broken’ Takes a Very Funny Bite Out of ‘Jaws’
Matthew MurphyFirst, all Jaws fans be fair warned: There is no shark in Ian Shaw and Joseph Nixon’s excellent Broadway play, The Shark Is Broken (Golden Theatre, booking through Nov. 19). The only semblance of the iconic 1975 serial killer and wanton dismemberer of unfortunate swimmers are a few seconds of familiar forbidding music and the sight of that fin scything through Nina Dunn’s watery video design that forms the backdrop to the stage. Then we see that fin blowing up and sinking.The image
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Theater Review: A play about the making of the movie 'Jaws' makes a nice splash on Broadway
Not what you might be expecting with “The Shark Is Broken,” the lyrical play that opened Thursday about the trio of actors who enlivened the pioneering Steven Spielberg -directed movie “Jaws.” It stars Colin Donnell as Roy Scheider, the police chief Brody; Alex Brightman as Richard Dreyfuss, the oceanographer Hooper; and Ian Shaw as Robert Shaw, the shark hunter Quint. The play instantly earns legitimacy because Ian Shaw is Robert's lookalike son and a co-writer.
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‘The Shark Is Broken’ Broadway Review: Gentle Comedy Snatches Life From Jaws Of Movie History
There’s at least one shark that’s not showing up in New York City these days: Bruce, the famous mechanical predator of Steven Spielberg’s sea horror classic Jaws, is the Godot-like presence in the Ian Shaw-Joseph Nixon comedy The Shark Is Broken, an amiable, slight new behind-the-movie-scenes play opening a 16-week engagement on Broadway tonight. Set …
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The Shark Is Broken review: Jaws takes a bite out of Broadway
Broadway's latest addition already has its sea legs.
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‘The Shark Is Broken’ Broadway Review: Bruce from ‘Jaws’ Pulls a No-Show
The notoriously temperamental mechanical fish wisely skips this on-the-set story The post ‘The Shark Is Broken’ Broadway Review: Bruce from ‘Jaws’ Pulls a No-Show appeared first on TheWrap.
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The Shark Is Broken brings Jaws (and Robert Shaw's son playing his dad) to Broadway
Broadway's going to need a bigger boat.
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Alex Brightman, Colin Donnell Join Broadway-Bound Jaws Comedy ‘The Shark Is Broken’
Beetlejuice‘s Alex Brightman and Chicago Med‘s Colin Donnell will portray Richard Dreyfuss and Roy Scheider, respectively, in the upcoming Broadway making-of-Jaws comedy The Shark Is Broken, joining the previously announced Ian Shaw (who will play his own father, Robert Shaw). The full casting announcement was made today by producers Sonia Friedman Productions, Scott Landis, and […]
