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American life Quote by John Lahr

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“I know in an existential sense that life can change on a dime ... something has instantly and inexorably changed in American life.”

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The British playwright Nina Raine is one of her generation's most promising talents.

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The pigeons are shitting on George M. Cohan. I shoo them off. They fly up and perch on his hat. Cohan would've never given…

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I go to the theatre expecting to have a good time. I want each play and performance to take me somewhere. Naturally, this doesn't…

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Dame Edna is that rarest sighting in our time of the absolute comic, an inspired personification of caprice whose comedy answered the primal call…

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Momentum was part of the exhilaration and the exhaustion of the twentieth century which Coward decoded for the British but borrowed wholesale from the…

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Death of a Salesman' is a brilliant taxonomy of the spiritual atrophy of mid-twentieth-century white America.

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I detest literature. I abominate the theatre. I have a horror of culture. I am only interested in magic!

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Entertainment is not politically neutral.

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In 1957, 'West Side Story' had introduced the musical to the reckless dark side of teen-age life; 'Bye Bye Birdie,' set in Sweet Apple,…

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