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Theatergoing is a communal act, movie going a solitary one.
Theatergoing is a communal act, movie going a solitary one.
The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to read more
The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.
My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl, that's read more
My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl, that's pretty seductive.
The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends read more
The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the author, and where for one unique evening the audience is almost expurgated of idiots.
All of the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visible arts, the theater, must singly and together create the most comprehensive read more
All of the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visible arts, the theater, must singly and together create the most comprehensive art of all, a humanized society, and its masterpiece, free man
Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.
Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.
The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to read more
The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.
The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what read more
The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work read more
It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work -- the night watchman.
