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“DeFrantz's study...is not the first book about the protean Ailey, who was born in hardscrabble Texas in 1931 and died in 1989 after creating close to 80 works. But it is perhaps the most comprehensive, combining biography, criticism, the analysis of dance criticism, and a sort of corporate history, siting the now firmly established Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in the international cultural landscape.”

Firsts Book Born Study Creating Criticism Died Theater International Landscape Corporate Analysis Texas Biographies Comprehensive Combining

Author:Alvin Ailey

“I don't care about my "impact" - I only care about the theater as an art form and criticism as an act of writing.”

Writing Art Care Form Criticism Theater Impact Don't Care I Don't Care

Author:Neil Patrick Harris

“I have criticisms of Ronald Reagan, but he lives in another universe from the kind of political theater that is represented by people, like Sarah Palin, who aren't really public servants.”

People Kind Political Universe Criticism Theater Servant Palin Public Servants

Author:Eugene Jarecki

“We find that Good and Evil happen alike to all Men on this Side of the Grave; and as the principle Design of Tragedy is to raise Commiseration and Terror in the Minds of the Audience, we shall defeat this great End, if we always make Virtue and Innocence happy and successful.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Joseph Addison (Illustrated)

“The English Writers of Tragedy are possessed with a Notion, that when they represent a virtuous or innocent Person in Distress, they ought not to leave him till they have delivered him out of his Troubles, or made him triumph over his Enemies.”

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Book:The spectator

Source: The spectator

“... actresses require protection in their art from blind abuse, from savage criticism. Their work is their religion, if they are seeking the best in their art, and to abuse that faith is to rob them, to dishonor them.”

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Author:Nance O'Neil

“Theater really gets damaged when there is a paucity of good criticism around.”

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Author:Tony Kushner