"Most of the theater you love and adore and find intelligent is way ahead of its time. The grace of it is people catch up to it."
"I want to have faith that this democracy can survive. I want to have faith that that the polarization can stop that. There's a way to communicate humanely with one another."
"I'm looking at this group of assassins and it's less about the individual acts, but more of who is this collective body of Americans who have to resort to this or feel that they have to resort to this violence to be seen and heard."
"Yes, you can be an actor and you don't have to play a guy that works at a Chinese laundry. You can be a prince, you can be a cowboy, you can be a rich boy from Upper Class England."
Happy New Year to everyone. Very soon we'll begin new interviews and highlights for 2022. But before we do, here is my list of the Top 10 of 2021:
#1: The Return of Live Performances
There isn't any one show...
"What the future holds? I don't know. I mean, it's the first time in 36 years of working that I'm leaving a job without knowing what the next job is."
"In a way we are kind of messengers of humanity. I remember when we shot the thing, we had a feeling that we had something really special, but we didn't know to what extent."
"I imagined, perhaps fantasized, that we would have one more conversation in person. Another glass of wine to be shared. Another letter in the mail."
Let's not just have on for Mahler, let's have one for Sondheim!
"I think how we've approached this, from looking at it with the Playhouse, was as an invitation back. Welcome home. Welcome back!" - Jenny Koons