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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“People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach “retirement” age seem very admirable to me.”
—Helen Hayes (1900–1993)
“Perhaps the happiest moment of my life was then, when I saw that our line didn’t break and that the enemy’s did.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
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—Dame Sybil Thorndike (1882–1976)