These Helen Hayes Awards are given for resident theatre productions in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. They include awards for the production itself, the direction, and the plays themselves.
Famous quotes containing the words helen hayes, helen, hayes and/or production:
“Actors work and slave—and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end.”
—Helen Hayes (1900–1993)
“Today in Germany, everyone is being watched—even the watchers.”
—Abraham Polonsky, U.S. screenwriter, Frank Butler, and Helen Deutsch. Mitchell Leisen. Otto Krosigk (Reinhold Schunzel)
“The bold enterprises are the successful ones. Take counsel of hopes rather than of fears to win in this business.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“The growing of food and the growing of children are both vital to the family’s survival.... Who would dare make the judgment that holding your youngest baby on your lap is less important than weeding a few more yards in the maize field? Yet this is the judgment our society makes constantly. Production of autos, canned soup, advertising copy is important. Housework—cleaning, feeding, and caring—is unimportant.”
—Debbie Taylor (20th century)