“Back when I was in theater school, trying to figure out what I was going to do with my life, 'Sweeney Todd' was a huge touchstone for me, my favorite musical for sure.” TryingSchoolFiguresHugeTheaterMusicalMy FavoriteBack WhenTouchstonesSweeneySweeney Todd Author:Eric McCormack
“Theater is the best. That's where you get the work done. You just really get in there and figure something out about a story or a character or life or the world. That's where magic stuff happens.” WorldDoneCharacterStoriesHappensStuffMagicFiguresTheaterWork DoneStuff Happens Author:Michael Shannon
“When real actors are approaching their work, we could be on a little stage somewhere, doing community theater. It's all the same. They're just trying to make the scene work. They're just trying to do the best they can and figure it out.” TryingLittlesRealActorsCommunityStageFiguresSceneTheaterDo The Best Author:Kurt Fuller
“In Milly Barranger, Margaret Webster has found the perfect biographer. In Margaret Webster, Milly Barranger has found her perfect subject. She brings to vivid life a fascinating and important theater figure whose public and private lives were of equal interest. In this carefully researched book, Webster's colleagues, lovers, and friends shine as brightly as she did. I wish she were here to read it.” ImportantBookFoundWishInterestPerfectSubjectsFiguresLoversEqualTheaterShiningFascinatingColleaguesVividPrivate LifeBiographersLovers And Friends Author:Marian Seldes
“The greatest experience I've ever had in a movie theater was watching "Star Wars." It shaped how I look at the world. My imagination was so small before I went in that theater and there was an explosion in my head. I just couldn't figure out how someone came up with it.” WorldLooksWarStarsImaginationFiguresTheaterMy ImaginationExplosionsMovie Theater Author:Will Smith
“I've always enjoyed performing. I was in figure skating before, and then I joined my first school play. Ever since that, you have not been able to get me out of the theater.” FirstsPlayAbleSchoolFiguresTheaterEnjoyedPerformingSkatingFigure SkatingSchool Plays Author:Daniela Bobadilla
“Theatrical times are different from concert times, to put it simply. Taking a figure like [Mahatma] Gandhi and setting him on a stage requires thinking about what theater is about and what the whole experience is about and what we're trying to communicate in that way, so you get into certain less abstract considerations.” ThinkingWayTryingDifferentWholeCertainStageFiguresTheaterCommunicateSettingSettingsAbstractConsiderationConcertsTheatrical Author:Philip Glass
“Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.” WorldInspirationalYearsDoeHas BeensArtInfluenceFiguresPaintingBirthMajorsPerformancesTheaterDanceProfoundPopsGenreVisualsOperaDeclineSculptureMinimalismVisual ArtPop ArtMusic And Dance Author:Camille Paglia