"Questions about political theatre always overlook America's most powerful and effective political theatre, which is always thriving: the American musical. The politics is conservative but, to my mind, effective and insidious."

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Source : "Questions for John Lahr" by John Lahr, www.newyorker.com. January 23, 2009.

John Lahr

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“This Christmas and every Christmas will be richer by sharing and enjoying gifts that cannot be held but only felt.”
“Acquiring an aggressive, honest, and communicative agent with actual relationships in real-live New York publishing houses is, in my opinion, the single most important move that a writer who aspires to be successful can make.”
“.....the research on the brain does not validate that we are singularly processing input or learning with a single sensory input.”

Source : Eric Jensen (1995). “Brain-based Learning & Teaching”, Brain Store Incorporated
“Without a past you can't have a future.”
“And Thou, vast Ocean! on whose awful face Timeâ€™s iron feet can print no ruin-trace, By breezes lullâ€™d, or by the storm-blasts drivâ€™n, Thy majesty uplifts the mind to heaven.”
“When a man's life is under debate, The judge can ne'er too long deliberate.”
“Art is community's medicine for that worst disease of the mind, the corruption of consciousness”
“She that asks Her dear five hundred friends, contemns them all, And hates their coming.”

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