“The show can go on without me, and probably will, but I want to come back to act in Chicago. My wife and I just bought a condo downtown, and I want to do theater.” WantShowsWifeGoes OnTheaterMy WifeChicagoDowntown Author:William Petersen
“I think so many great artists are flocking to LA because the downtown art scene is so vibrant, there is cheap living and you can really flourish as an artist there. There is an unbelievably supportive and really smart, talented theatre audience in LA full of young, hungry, vibrant people. It's something that sort of makes me think of what New York must have been like in its downtown theater scene in the 1980s - before my time.” PeopleThinkingHas BeensArtYoungArtistAudienceNew YorkSceneSmartTheaterTheatreHungryMy TimeSupportiveGreat ArtGreat ArtistDowntownReally Smart Author:Jon Bernthal
“I became interested in film as a viewer when I was a teenager. I would spend entire afternoons in an arthouse theater in downtown Santiago. I didn't really expect to be a filmmaker back then. But it was clearly an interest.” FilmInterestTheaterTeenagerFilmmakerAfternoonViewersDowntownSantiago Author:Omar Zuniga
“I don't know why people always compare me [ with Amiri Baraka] I was never part of the Black Arts Repertory Theater or the Black Arts Movement; people who claim that I was are wrong. I was downtown. I was living in Chelsea when they were operating in Harlem.” PeopleKnowsArtBlackMovementClaimsTheaterCompareDowntownHarlemChelseaBlack Art Author:Ishmael Reed
“In Brazil, there is a fear and a denial of our past. Downtown Rio used to display the history of colonialism in Brazil. They had beautiful buildings and theaters, and there was a bakery that was threatened to be demolished, but people insisted against it. They laid down in front of it and said, "You're going to have to go over my body to destroy it." It frustrates me when I see people on Facebook posing in front of old buildings while on vacation, because they could've posed in front of equally beautiful buildings at home in Rio.” PeopleSaidHomeBodyPastBeautifulUsedFrontsBuildingTheaterDenialVacationDisplayColonialismOur PastThreatenedBrazilDowntownPosingRioOld BuildingsBakeries Author:Sonia Braga
“My parents used to park us kids at the public library in downtown Honolulu every Saturday. They'd leave us there at 8 A.M. and pick us up at 4 P.M. - so between those hours, you'd better find something to do! I sat upstairs in the picture room and went through opera, ballet, and theater books. I loved the photographs of people wearing elaborate makeup and costumes - they really pulled at me inside. I was in that library every week for years, until I was about 13. I had a rich interior life, because I didn't have much of a social life.” PeopleYearsBookKidsUsedSocialParentHoursRoomsRichWeekPicksTheaterLibraryPhotographSatParksMakeupBalletOperaSaturdayInteriorsCostumesSocial LifeDowntownUpstairsPublic LibraryHonolulu Author:Bette Midler
“I go a lot to see young people downtown in little theaters. It's great. If you start somebody's career, it's so exciting.” PeopleIfsLittlesYoungCareersExcitingTheaterDowntown Author:Mikhail Baryshnikov
“My mother had been an actress and we came from that world in New York, the theater world and the downtown sort of theater scene, and so I guess we didn't really have what you'd call like a Hollywood kind of life at all.” WorldKindMotherNew YorkSceneHollywoodTheaterActressesDowntown Author:Martha Plimpton