Mission
According to the MTC, its mission is:
- "to produce a season of innovative work with a series of productions as broad and diverse as New York itself;
- to encourage significant new work by creating an environment in which writers and theatre artists are supported by the finest professionals producing theatre today;
- to nurture new talent in playwriting, musical composition, directing, acting and design;
- to reach out to young audiences with innovative programs in education and maintain a commitment to cultivating the next generation of theatre professionals."
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Famous quotes containing the word mission:
“When you’re dealing with monkeys, you’ve got to expect some wrenches.”
—Alvah Bessie, Ranald MacDougall, and Lester Cole. Raoul Walsh. Captain Nelson, Objective Burma, giving a subaltern a mission (1945)
“Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.”
—Umberto Eco (b. 1932)
“I cannot be a materialist—but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let Belgravia go laughing to a vicious luxury, and Whitechapel cursing to a filthy debauchery—such suffering, such dreadful suffering—and shall the short years of Christ’s mission atone for it all?”
—D.H. (David Herbert)