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EMILY: Good-by, Good-by, world. Good-by, Grover's Corners... Mama and Papa. Good-by to clocks ticking...and Mama's sunflowers. And food and coffee. And new-ironed dresses and hot baths... and sleeping and waking up. Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do human beings ever realize life while they live it? - Every, every minute?" STAGE MANAGER: No.

Our Town, Thornton Wilder

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Bertold Brecht speaks in the House Committee on Un-American Activities

#brecht

I ask of doctors and of dock workers and of whoever stitches up my coat.

Things should be done with magnificence. No matter what a thing is, nothing should be mediocre. Down from buildings to pairs of rubber boots. The mediocre is unnatural. What is false is not natural. Command yourself. Be famous. The lack of greatness is a matter of shame. They shall every one be great.

- Yevgeny Yevtushenko

#little nemo

#albee

“The thing I have a passionate feeling about is that it should be live,” she said. “If the conductor is going to have to lead, and you’re using projected media of any kind, it has to have the flexibility of an instrument. It has to be that malleable.”

- Netia Jones

#sendak #opera

JM: Well, it is collaboration, it is community those kinds of things are rare in television or film, or in my experience they’re rare. But also, you can do things in the theater that can’t be replicated by the other two. There are moments in theater that are pure theater, like in Dancing at Lughnasa. Right before they all dance there’s this moment where she turns and throws white flour on her face, and lets out this primal scream. Then one by one all of the sisters start dancing. It’s something you can’t articulate, it’s not cerebral. And the audience can go from doubling over with laughter to complete silence, sitting on the edge of their seats in a second. That’s what I love about the theater.

#mantello #director

Wanderlust by Gabriel Kahane.

#gabriel kahane #february house #the public #record #theater

David Cromer's production of Sweet Bird of Youth at the Goodman.

#set design #Tennessee williams

“Sunday after Dinner,” by Russel Vernon Hunter

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“Never. I would pick it out if I saw it and throw it on the floor.” -Julia Child, when asked if she would ever eat cilantro.

It is a law of our civilization that as soon as a man proves he can contribute to the well-being of the world, there be created an immediate conspiracy to destroy his usefulness, a conspiracy in which he is usually a willing collaborator. Sometimes he awakens to his danger and does something about it. That is the story of ALLEGRO.

Oscar Hammerstein II

#hammerstein #allegro