Local Arts Quotes

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They are the kinds of things that make us a community: attachment to place, attachment to local arts traditions, the ability to read literature, the ability to look at paintings, the sense of connectedness to the land, the sense of community that comes from people taking care of their own.

I belong to the Richmond Concert Society, who put on very good concerts.

I used to do community theater with Conor Oberst.

Theater in Chicago will always be my first love.

All this thing that L.A. doesn't have any love for the theater isn't true.

Growing up in Houston, the music scene is super boring.

When I lived in Chicago, it often felt like the same people who were going to all the little theater companies were the people who were working in them.

Now, all of a sudden, every college and every university has an opera theater. Every little city has its little group.

I live in Philadelphia, and my wife and I do a lot of theater out in the Philadelphia community.