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"Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked."

"New York is not conductive to theater. New York does not encourage its young. It does not encourage experimentation."

"At the turn of the century theatre does not have to be prescriptive."

"I see only defects because I'm not following the scene as it were. I'm not following the other person. It's like the best thing to clarify this is the theater."

"I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I'll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence."

"In theater, you have a rehearsal period and you know just who to be."

"I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far."
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"In next five to 10 years I probably would have done my best work, but I was afraid of having another 10 or 15 years ahead of me and feeling stale, so this was an opportunity to reinvigorate myself."

"There's been a big spur in downtown development with new business, restaurants and a lot of loft buying. The buses run, and there's a subway that runs through downtown."

"I went into this job to do plays, but that's here for 10 weeks, and the rest of the year I do a lot of other things-the administrative work of planning, reading plays."

"The trick is to have my own particular taste and feel for the theater to audiences who have been used to one particular style and taste for nearly 40 years."
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