“The thing I have a passionate feeling about is that it should be live,” she said. “If the conductor is going to have to lead, and you’re using projected media of any kind, it has to have the flexibility of an instrument. It has to be that malleable.”

- Netia Jones 

JM: Well, it is collaboration, it is community those kinds of things are rare in television or film, or in my experience they’re rare. But also, you can do things in the theater that can’t be replicated by the other two. There are moments in theater that are pure theater, like in Dancing at Lughnasa. Right before they all dance there’s this moment where she turns and throws white flour on her face, and lets out this primal scream. Then one by one all of the sisters start dancing. It’s something you can’t articulate, it’s not cerebral. And the audience can go from doubling over with laughter to complete silence, sitting on the edge of their seats in a second. That’s what I love about the theater.

David Cromer’s production of Sweet Bird of Youth at the Goodman.

“Sunday after Dinner,” by Russel Vernon Hunter

modernmatthew:

“Never.  I would pick it out if I saw it and throw it on the floor.”
-Julia Child, when asked if she would ever eat cilantro.

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