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Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.

W. R. Inge
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He steps on stage and draws the sword of rhetoric, and when he is through, someone is lying wounded and thousands of others are either angry or consoled.

Pete Hamill
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The center of the stage is where I am. -Martha Graham
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In the theater the audience wants to be surprised but by things that they expect.

Tristan Bernard
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Whoever becomes the head of the National Theater finds himself in a position like that of Nelson's Column-pigeons dump on you because you're there.

Peter Hall
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I believe in the theater; I believe in it as the first glamorizer of thought. It restores dramatic dynamics and their relations to life size. -Laurence Olivier, Sir
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Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.

Alan Jay Lerner
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The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.

Arthur Miller
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We used to work in two great black houses: Chicago's Regal Theater, and the Apollo Theater on 125th Street in New York. -Donald O'connor
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The theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything -- gestures, sounds, words, screams, light, darkness -- rediscovers itself at precisely the point where the mind requires a language to express its manifestations. To break through language in order to touch life is to create or recreate the theatre.

Antonin Artaud
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In student theater, you see a lot of political plays. But this piece sees things from both sides. On one hand, it gives this perspective of harsh, fascist law and how terrible that is, but it also shows the other side and their perspective. I respect that in a play.

John Byrom
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I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more. -Marc Chagall
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I'm learning how tough it is to do the lead, to carry the show. This is definitely something I'll continue to do, whether in community theater, professionally or whatever.

Mark Kennedy
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There were volunteers who would go to that theater at, say, 9 o'clock in the morning and work upstairs on the third floor. They were so devoted that they would stay for the evening performance.

Marjorie Belka
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John always wanted to do a theater piece. -Hal Thau
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Listening to the CD and coming to the theater are very different experiences. I've always had the feeling that piano could be kind of a snooze if you just place one song after another. I'm the only thing to look at onstage, so it's up to me to make it as entertaining as possible.

Jim Brickman
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If somebody interested in theater wants to come along and pick it up, I'll obviously help them transition in that. But it's just time for me.

Ron Kaminski
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[In 1999, he was cast opposite Bernadette Peters --] the queen of musical theater, ... Annie Get Your Gun. -Tom Wopat
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I thought it would be neat because if these students go on in acting, they will likely be doing dinner theater. Insert joke about actors being waiters and waitresses here.

Amy Coleman
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We strongly encourage (theater owners) to keep the ads limited in duration and make them entertaining in their own right. We hope there will be a migration toward fewer ads that don't replicate what's on television, because people can't stand that.

John Fithian
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We had many luxuries, such as books an the theater, but not many of the necessities. -Marion Ross
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It's stunning to me, the barrage of articles about the impending death of the movie theater.

John Fithian
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Every year it's like a straight line. Last year our traffic increased 60%. Now we're supported by ads. The consumer wants information, especially about genre films, even anime. We're very democratic. Even though genre films get the most hits, even if a movie opens in only one theater, we still cover it.

Senh Duong
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We hope to be expanding. We're starting off with three theater productions this year. We hope to expand it to four next year. We just want to have a real diverse season. -Mark Swezey
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No matter who you are, there's a theater that suits you and a story you can relate to, ... You can wear your tux or you can wear your jeans; this night's for everyone.

Bill Schroeder
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I love pure music, but you get a more complete package with opera. It's theater, it's music, it's drama, it's scenic design.

Frank Mcclain
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The oldest form of theater is the dinner table. It's got five or six people, new show every night, same players. Good ensemble; the people have worked together a lot. -Michael J. Fox
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When I was in a play in a theater, and all was going well on stage, I felt that the audience and I were somehow joined into one.

Conrad Veidt
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I remember when (graffiti film) 'Wild Style' came to the (Honolulu) Academy of Arts. We loaded up the family in the station wagon. At the theater it was us and a couple of hippies from UH.

Jeff Chang
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Whenever we are not doing a show in our main theater or after the main show, we will do things down here. -Jason Bruffy
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