Theater
- James Stacy Barbour, Played Leon Czolgosz in Assassins, Mr. Rochester in Jane Eyre, Officer Lovestock in Urinetown, on Broadway. Toured with National Company of The Secret Garden. Played The Beast in Beauty and the Beast (Los Angeles and Broadway). TV: Sex and the City, Just Shoot Me and The District
- Nancy Cassaro, creator of the stage show Tony and Tina's Wedding. Cassaro wrote the show for her theatre company, Artificial Intelligence, and starred in the first production in New York.
- Peter Friedman, Appeared on Broadway in Twelve Angry Men, The Heidi Chronicles and Common Pursuit. Starring role in the Broadway musical Ragtime. (Tony nomination); off-Broadway in The Loman Family Picnic. Recurring role in TV series Brooklyn Bridge
- Susan H. Schulman, American theater director
- Charles Ludlam, American playwright
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Famous quotes containing the word theater:
“When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet’s task to turn it into an audience.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)
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Tony Pastor, the pioneer of vaudeville, played the theater in 1876.... He had been preceded by P.T. Barnum, and an occasional performer such as Professor Simmons, “Great, Weird, Wondrous, and Invincibly Incomprehensible ... Basiliconthamaturgist.””
—State of Utah, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)