For invited actors, musicians, jugglers or poets it can be more complicated.
Describing the events variously as "parallel portraits" and "a marriage of historical fiction and the art of chamber music," Mr. Clark has invited actors to join with singers and instrumentalists in pursuit of "the most intimate and passionate music, along with interconnections among the great artists who produced it".
In November of 2005, a college kid named Adam Sterling invited actor-turned-activist Don Cheadle to the University of California, Los Angeles to discuss the humanitarian nightmare underway in Sudan's western region of Darfur.
On the eve of the election, late-night TV hosts Samantha Bee and James Corden both invited actors on their shows to do what they do best: read. .
I set a date and invited actors I knew to my house to read my new screenplay, which had not yet been written.
Film Forum regularly invites actors, directors and producers to attend its film screenings.
Ms. O'Donnell does not just periodically trot out the cast of "The Lion King," the monster-hit Disney musical over which she rhapsodizes on a regular basis; she also invites actors in straight plays for a chat and a plug.
Nor can one explain how a woman who is the chief executive of a cosmetics company, who invites actors and business moguls to dine at her table, can be so fundamentally down to earth that she still colors her own hair, with a mixture of four shades of Clairol.
He invited an actor on the show, Ted McGinley, to move his family to New York.
Whatever the case, he invited the actor to address a congressional panel about Aids, and she agreed.
John Major, who first tried to detoxify the party, invited the actor Ian McKellen for a meeting about gay issues.
