“DeFrantz's study...is not the first book about the protean Ailey, who was born in hardscrabble Texas in 1931 and died in 1989 after creating close to 80 works. But it is perhaps the most comprehensive, combining biography, criticism, the analysis of dance criticism, and a sort of corporate history, siting the now firmly established Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in the international cultural landscape.” FirstsBookBornStudyCreatingCriticismDiedTheaterInternationalLandscapeCorporateAnalysisTexasBiographiesComprehensiveCombining Author:Alvin Ailey
“The theater is a school we shall never have done with studying and learning.” DoneSchoolStudyTheater Author:Robert Edmond Jones
“I was always drawn to performing, but I never thought I could. I have no idea what I wanted to do outside of the old cowboy-or-fireman. When I was in college, I got serious about acting. I started examining history and then everything related to the theater. History, art, all the other studies, if I could link them into the theater, then it became alive for me. It just opened up my eyes.” IfsArtIdeasEyeWantedActingStudyAliveCollegeSeriousTheaterNo IdeaPerformingRelatedIf I CouldLinksCowboyExaminingFireman Author:Billy Crystal
“As a student studying acting, I was always broke, so going to see any live theater was almost impossible.” ActingStudyImpossibleStudentsTheaterBrokeLive Theater Author:Jesse L. Martin
“And then it was like, wait, you can go to college and study theater? And act in plays? This is almost a racket, you know. And then when the opportunity came along to do it professionally, I thought I'd won the lottery.” KnowsPlayOpportunityWaitingStudyCollegeTheaterLotteryRacket Author:Tom Hanks
“Last House offended a lot of people. The results in the theaters, even in Boston, reminded me a bit of things from when I was studying theater of the absurd, and the rise and the appearance of Ionesco plays, and things like that. Thinking, "My God, people actually are getting into fistfights. People are having heart attacks. People are actually trying to get into the projection booth to destroy the print."” PeopleThinkingTryingHeartPlayLastsHouseBitsResultsStudyTheaterAppearanceAbsurdPrintOffendedBostonProjectionHeart Attack Author:Wes Craven
“I'd done some acting in high school. Then I went to Kenyon College and got thrown in jail and kicked off the football team. Since I was determined not to study very much, I majored in theater the last two years. Got my degree in speech; they didn't actually have a degree in theater. I graduated at two o'clock in the afternoon, and at three-thirty I was on the train for Williams Bay, Wisconsin, for summer stock, and then I did winter stock.” YearsTwoDoneSchoolLastsThreeActingStudyTeamFootballCollegeSpeechDegreesSummerHigh SchoolTheaterTrainWinterDeterminedClockThirtyThrownTwo YearsJailAfternoonFootball TeamWisconsin Author:Paul Newman
“The churches had left me cold, but I thought there's got to be a God. I remember going out, this is in Charleston, South Carolina, and my desire then was to be a playwright, and I was studying theater, and I went out one night, late at night, and I asked, "What can God be if there is a God?" I wasn't sure there was a God, but if there is a God, what must he be? Well, he can't be a judge, who's up there just waiting for us to make a mistake so he can clap us into hell. There's got to be something more than that.” IfsWellsRememberDesireNightLeftWaitingChurchMistakeHellStudyJudgingColdLateTheaterSouthGoing OutOne NightPlaywrightCarolinaIf There Is A GodSouth CarolinaCharlestonCharleston South Carolina Author:Goswami Kriyananda
“I was really lucky for the friends that I had and loved every minute of it. I don't think I was a geek, but I loved the studies and we had a really good theater company at our school.” ThinkingSchoolCompanyStudyMinutesLuckyTheaterGeek Author:Jenna Coleman
“I dropped out in middle school. I dropped out in, towards the beginning of the ninth grade. And then I started studying -I started taking acting classes at a, well first I was like in a community theater at that time in Torrance, California, so I finished up like my season with that community theater just acting in, you know, acting in a small part on this play or a big part on that play or a stage manager or assistant stage manager in another play.” KnowsFirstsWellsPlayBigsSchoolCommunityActingClassStudyMiddleStageSeasonsTheaterFinishedManagersCaliforniaGradesAssistantsSmall PartsMiddle SchoolActing ClassesNinth GradeStage Managers Author:Quentin Tarantino
“I went to the University of Minnesota to study art. I left the university to come to New York and live in Soho. I got involved with like a small kind of like experimental theater-mime company and we discovered that Étienne Decroux, a great mime, was still teaching in Paris so I went to study with him for several years.” YearsKindArtStillsLeftCompanyStudyTeachingNew YorkInvolvedTheaterUniversityAll KindsParisMinnesotaMimeSoho Author:Jessica Lange
“I've worked with some teachers and coaches over the years, but I didn't really study theater or technique or voice or any of that stuff extensively.” YearsStuffVoiceStudyTeacherTheaterTechniqueCoaches Author:Jessica Lange
“When I am lonely for boys it’s their bodies I miss. I study their hands lifting the cigarettes in the darkness of the movie theaters, the slope of a shoulder, the angle of a hip. Looking at them sideways, I examine them in different lights. My love for them is visual: that is the part of them I would like to possess. Don’t move, I think. Stay like that, let me have that.” ThinkingDifferentBodyHandsLightMovingBoysDarknessStudyMissingLonelyLet MeTheaterShouldersHipsVisualsCigaretteAngleLiftingSlopesSidewaysMovie TheaterI Am Lonely Author:Margaret Atwood
“I not only loved studying theater, I loved being a theater major. It gave me an excuse to brood, to grow a beard, to wear black 'at' people. I didn't just want to play Hamlet, I wanted to be Hamlet.” PeopleWantPlayWantedGrowsBlackStudyMajorsTheaterExcuseBeard Author:Stephen Colbert
“At our theaters we only see feeble copies of the copies that have proceeded them, renounce that slavish routine which keeps your art in its infancy; examine everything relative to the development of talents; be original; form a style for yourselves based on your private studies; if you must copy, imitate nature, it is a noble model and never misleads those who follow it.” IfsArtFormStudyTalentStyleDevelopmentModelsTheaterOriginalsNobleCopiesRoutineRelativeBalletMisleadInfancyRenounce Author:Jean-Georges Noverre