“When I was 13 years old, a professional theater company in my town needed a kid actor. I auditioned, and I got the part, so for just a few weeks I became a member of the company and I met some professional actors.” YearsKidsActorsCompanyWeekNeededMetsMembersTheaterTowns Author:Trevor Nunn
“I came out of school just at the time regional theater was first expanding. All of a sudden, lots of new companies needed actors.” FirstsSchoolActorsCompanyNeededTheaterExpandingNew Company Author:Charles Kimbrough
“[To actors on opening night:] You have had good equipment to work with. You've had a theater with everything you needed, and you are involved with the play; but all the way through you have been handicapped. One essential has been denied you. Tonight the audience is there; now they are sitting out front; you have everything you need.” WayNeedsHas BeensPlayNightActorsAudienceFrontsNeededInvolvedEssentialsSittingTheaterOpeningTonightDeniedEquipmentHandicappedOpening Night Author:Hallie Flanagan
“Traditionally, digital projects, when you project them, they get really washed out. It's complicated stuff with gamma, but basically your blacks get very milky and the colors get very weak, and we made so many different versions of it to just pump more color into it, so it would look just as good in the theater as it does on your screen at home. And color was my constant whine. It needed to be very oversaturated.” LooksDoeMadeDifferentHomeStuffColorNeededProjectsWeakTheaterConstantComplicatedScreensVersionsDigitalGet RealPumps Author:Don Hertzfeldt
“I married him [Chris Sarandon] my senior year, and after I graduated, he went to the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, and I tagged along and was doing some local modeling and commercials and things like that. A woman named Jane Oliver, who handled Sylvester Stallone, saw Chris at the theater and asked him to come in and audition. We went in and auditioned - he needed someone to read with him. I read with him, and she said, "Well, why don't both of you come back in the fall."” YearsWellsLongSaidFallSawsHavensNeededMarriedTheaterTheatreLocalsSeniorAuditionsModelingJaneSenior YearTaggedNeeded Someone Author:Susan Sarandon
“(Mariners) have written one of its most brilliant chapters. They have delivered the goods when and where needed in every theater of operations and across every ocean in the biggest, the most difficult and dangerous job ever undertaken. As time goes on, there will be greater public understanding of our merchant's fleet record during this war.” WorldWarJobsDifficultUnderstandingRecordsGreaterWrittenDangerousGoes OnNeededOceanTheaterBrilliantOperationsWar Of The WorldsGoodsChaptersWorld War 2MerchantsTime Goes OnMarinersMerchant MarineDangerous Jobs Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Depression is something that seems really obscure when you see it in a theater, but when you talk to people who come to see it and hear their reactions, you realize that it is such a prevalent part of life and our society today that it really needed to be told, and still needs to be told.” PeopleNeedsStillsSeemsTodayRealizingNeededTheaterReactionsOur SocietyObscureParts Of LifeSociety Today Author:Aaron Tveit