Quotes About Culture

Theater for me at one point was a lifestyle, too.

So I've done my fair share of theater. I have also been very fortunate in that I've been able to come to New York two or three times a year just to see as many shows as possible. I think the live theater culture here is incredible.

So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater.

I want to make 'Broadway' a word that doesn't have pejorative connotation. I don't want 'musical theater' to be a dismissive term. I want it to be something that people can be proud of, that people can say, 'Look at the possibilities.'

We all need to go to good theater; that is what I believe will save it.

I don't want the kind of theater that I love and grew up seeing to die out.

People who are interested in the arts and theater are such a minority.

A theater is being given over to market forces, which means that a whole generation that should be able to do theater as well as see it is being completely deprived.

I happened to happened to land in a time, in the middle '60s, that without knowing it, and without being told by the history of theater - which we now see from a historical point of view was an explosive time.

Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film.

I did a lot of theater in the South side of Chicago.

I've always wanted to do theater in Chicago. Chicago is a big theater town-and, in some ways, I think this city is savvier and smarter than New York. Sometimes, I think it's a little too chic to go to theater in New York these days.

My mother had been an actress and we came from that world in New York, the theater world and the downtown sort of theater scene, and so I guess we didn't really have what you'd call like a Hollywood kind of life at all.

When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when it's packaged as the Night Out, then that's the death of it.

If you want to see theater you go to New York.

The first 45 or 50 years of the regional theater movement, all these folks, they built these theaters. The job of the next generation is to maintain them.

We don't have Latina heroines in theaters; I haven't seen Marvel doing it.

Other theaters exist here solely to entertain the white audience and keep South Africa on a par with what's going on in the West End or Broadway. The Market concerns itself with theater of this country, for this country.

The mainstream is generally garbage. Look at the heavily subsidized theaters.

Let's put it this way: art house theaters are vanishing. They have almost disappeared completely, and that means there's a shift in what audiences want to see. And they have to be aware of that and be realistic. It's as simple as that.

In mainland China, there are many good theaters - sometimes better than Hong Kong.

I'll be going to the granddaddy of the Los Angeles theaters.

The idea of a film staying in theaters for a year is something of a fantasy today.

I'm still a big believer in movie theaters, and going to see movies in public.