“My parents are not theatrical people, but my dad took me to the theater.” PeopleParentDadTheaterMy DadTheatrical Author:Kate Fleetwood
“One of the things that gives me a lot of pleasure about both the solo show and the book is that it tells people about my dad. He really was an important man. He was a kind of pioneer of regional theater. He was the first American producer to ever produce all of Shakespeare plays.” PeopleMenGivingFirstsKindImportantBookPlayShowsPleasureProduceDadGive MeTheaterMy DadProducersSoloPioneersShakespeare Play Author:John Lithgow
“I come from Nova Scotia, and I'd never seen a theater or been inside of a theater. When I was 17, my dad asked me what I wanted to do, and I said I thought I would like to be an actor. I didn't have any idea what it was to be an actor. None. I'd wanted to be either an actor or a sculptor, which are both essentially the same thing. That's how it all started for me.” SaidIdeasWantedActorsDadTheaterMy DadSculptorsNova ScotiaNovas Author:Donald Sutherland
“I love martial-arts movies. I grew up with my dad watching kung-fu theater every Sunday. So it was kind of my thing.” KindArtGrewDadGrew UpTheaterMy DadSundayMartial ArtsKung Fu Author:Milla Jovovich
“My dad is a big extrovert - he's a doctor - but he always loved [William] Shakespeare and he took us to tons of theater.” BigsDadDoctorsTheaterMy DadExtroverts Author:Vanessa Kirby
“My dad's a prominent theatre director in Toronto, so I grew up in that world, directing and producing theater since I was a teenager. I always loved movies but they seemed too complicated until I got a job as an assistant on a movie-of-the-week and the technical process became demystified, like peeking behind a magician's curtain. Not long after that I switched to movies and never looked back.” WorldLongJobsProcessBehindsWeekGrewDadDirectorsGrew UpTheaterMy DadComplicatedTheatreTeenagerCurtainsMagicianAssistantsProminentTorontoPeekingTheatre Directors Author:Ed Gass-Donnelly
“I grew up listening to a lot of player-piano music in my house and a lot of old Tin Pan Alley songs and American standards. My dad listened to a lot of traditional Irish music and I grew up doing musical theater. So most of the music I was exposed to as a kid was pre-rock n' roll.” KidsSongHousePlayerRocksListeningGrewDadGrew UpStandardsTheaterMusicalMy DadTraditionalPianoExposedRock N RollAlleysTinMusical TheaterPiano MusicPlayer PianoIrish MusicTin Pan Alley Author:John C. Reilly
“Going to the theater is such a joyous experience. My dad would take my sister and me to plays when we were very young, like six or seven years old.” YearsPlayYoungDadSixTheaterSevenMy DadMy SisterSeven YearsJoyous Author:Julia Roberts