The Helen Hayes Awards are given for acting in resident theatre productions in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. The awards are generally divided between male and female performers, between lead and supporting performers, and since the early 1990s between dramatic plays and musicals.
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“I cry out for order and find it only in art.”
—Helen Hayes (1900–1993)
“Babies are beautiful, wonderful, exciting, enchanting, extraordinary little creatures—who grow up into ordinary folk like us.”
—Doris Dyson. quoted in What Is a Baby?, By Richard and Helen Exley.
“Conscience is the authentic voice of God to you.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
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—Richard Dean Rosen (b. 1949)