Director Dale Franzen rightfully boasts, "The Broad Stage is intimate but world class theater, with extraordinary acoustics in a beautiful and accessible setting with free parking in the heart of Santa Monica.
Join choir, band, take an art class, theater, writing and/or reading classes, sewing club, dancing, sports, exercise, even run for student council!
But it also becomes a touching valentine to a whole tradition of working-class theater, from secular miracle plays to Mr. Pinter's world of weighted pauses and monosyllables.
Opting for easy parking over world-class theater, museums and horse-drawn carriage rides, preferring the backyard to major-league stadiums, sports arenas and restaurants are decisions I made -- till I grew up.
Opting for easy parking over world-class theater, museums and horse-drawn carriage rides, preferring the backyard to major league stadiums are decisions I made -- till I grew up.
For decades, the only radio available in the Soviet Union aside from a few Eastern European stations on a little-used wavelength was on the single wired channel -- an eclectic mix of stupefying ideology and world-class theater, interviews with tractor workers and gripping hockey games.
Shakespeare in the Park is a wonderful tradition that makes world-class theater accessible to all who are willing to wait for it.
"That's what's guided us in our lives, and beyond that, it feeds our souls," he said, naming art, drama and dance classes, theater games and a "fun Olympics" among his previous volunteer activities at various medical facilities, "wherever kids need a little fun, something to take their minds off their difficulties".
"We went from three shows last year to 15 shows on tour in first-class theaters this year," Ms. Hopkins said.
With Boz's Juba as its newest member, the company toured middle-class theaters and lecture halls in the British Isles for the next 18 months.
Even then, the race belongs to the swift, as Robert LuPone, a founder of the Manhattan Class Company theater group in Chelsea, found out when he starting looking for a space bigger than the current 99-seat theater.
