“Young people have got to start their own theaters, really. All good theater is a kind of mom-and-pop operation. Start your own theater.” PeopleKindYoungMomTheaterPopsOperations Author:Terrence McNally
“We live in a time which has created the art of the absurd. It is our art. It contains happenings, Pop art, camp, a theater of the absurd... Do we have the art because the absurd is the patina of waste...? Or are we face to face with a desperate or most rational effort from the deepest resources of the unconscious of us all to rescue civilization from the pit and plague of its bedding?” ArtFacesEffortCivilizationWasteHappeningsArt IsResourcesTheaterPopsRationalAbsurdDesperateUnconsciousCampsRescueAbsurdityPlaguePitsFace To FacePop ArtBedding Author:Norman Mailer
“I would ask: Given the nature of free-market capitalism - where the rule is to rise to the top at all costs - is it possible to have a financial industry hero? And by the way, this is not a pop-culture trend we're talking about. There aren't many financial heroes in literature, theater or cinema.” WayCultureAsksLiteratureGivenTalkingIndustryHeroCostCapitalismTheaterFinancialPopsCinemaTrendsFree MarketPop CultureFree Market Capitalism Author:Martin Scorsese
“I'm definitely curious. I love pop culture. I'm glued to it. I can watch garbage TV, but then I can also watch great theater.” I CanCultureWatchesTvsTheaterPopsCuriousGarbagePop Culture Author:Michael Kors
“Twentieth-century culture's disease is the inability to feel their reality. People cluster to TV, soap operas, movies, theater, pop idols and they have wild emotion over symbols. But in the reality of their own lives, they're emotionally dead.” PeopleFeelsRealityCultureEmotionCenturyTvsDiseaseTheaterPopsSymbolsOperaIdolsInabilityTwentieth CenturySoapSoap OperasMovie TheaterClusters Author:Jim Morrison
“At one time musical theater, particularly in the '40s and '50s, was a big source of pop songs. That's how musical theater started, really - it was just a way of linking several pop songs for the stage.” WayBigsSongStageSourceTheaterMusicalPopsOne TimePop SongMusical Theater Author:Neil Tennant
“I sing songs from the theater and pop songs. When I say 'pop songs,' I mean from the 90's. And I tell jokes. So it's sort of a stand up show meets a concert - not your traditional lounging across a piano cabaret show. It's much looser.” MeanShowsSongJokesTheaterPopsTraditionalPianoConcertsShow MePop SongCabaretLounging Author:Laura Benanti
“I love to pop up at the movie theaters. I love to treat the people who are there.” PeopleTreatsTheaterPopsMovie Theater Author:Kevin Hart
“I grew up in the time just when cassettes were waning and CDs were growing. And so mix tapes - and not mix CDs - mix tapes were an important part of the friendship and mating rituals of New York adolescents. If you were a girl and I wanted you - to show you I like you, I would make you a 90-minute cassette wherein I would show off my tastes. I would play you a musical theater song next to a hip-hop song next to an oldie next to some pop song you maybe never heard, also subliminally telling you how much I like you with all these songs.” IfsImportantPlayShowsWantedSongGirlNextGrowingHeardMinutesNew YorkLike YouGrewTasteGrew UpTheaterMusicalHip HopPopsHipsHopsRitualTapeCdsShowing OffI Like YouPop SongMatingMusical TheaterCassettesHip Hop Song Author:Lin-Manuel Miranda
“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
“We thought it would be great to see if you could put pop music back into musical theater.” IfsWould BeTheaterMusicalPopsPop MusicMusical Theater Author:Neil Tennant