Frank Galati is a two-time Tony Award-winning and Academy Award-winning artist. He won Tonys for best adaptation and best direction of Steppenwolf's production of The Grapes of Wrath on Broadway and his Oscar for best adaptation of The Accidental Tourist. Although he is known primarily as a director of epic plays and musicals (Homebody/Kabul and Ragtime), he is an equally adept actor (The Drawer Boy). He is also an Associate Director at The Goodman Theatre and Professor of Performance Studies at Northwestern University. What is popularly called the Tony Award (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theater, including musical theater, primarily honoring productions on Broadway in New York. ... Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ... Tony can mean any of the following: a slang word for Cocaine Tony Award a nickname for the male names Antoine, Antony, Antonio, Anthony, and Manraj, and for the female name Antoinette. ... For the book, see Steppenwolf (novel) Steppenwolf album cover Steppenwolf is a 1960s and 1970s rock n roll band, best known for the hits Born to Be Wild and Magic Carpet Ride. They were named after the novel Steppenwolf by German author Hermann Hesse. ... This article is about the novel. ... Broadway theatre[1] is the most prestigious form of professional theatre in the U.S., as well as the most well known to the general public and most lucrative for the performers, technicians and others involved in putting on the shows. ... Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ... The Accidental Tourist is a novel by Anne Tyler that won the 1985 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. ... The New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW) is a non-profit off-Broadway theater in New York City. ... Look up ragtime in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The Drawer Boy is a play by Michael Healey. ... A theatre director is a principal in the theatre field who oversees and orchestrates the mounting of a play by unifying various endeavors and aspects of production. ... The meaning of the word professor (Latin: one who claims publicly to be an expert) varies. ... Performance studies is a growing field of academic study focusing on the critical analysis of performance and performativity. ... Northwestern University is a private, coeducational, non-sectarian research university located in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois. ...