Pirate Productions - An English speaking musical theatre group comprising of singers, actors and musicians of varying nationality. Information about the group and their shows.
Round Tower Players - This Irish theatre group produces and performs a wide range of English language plays.
New World Theatre Club - English speaking theatre. Includes information on several productions and events of interest to English speaking audiences.
Munsbach Summer School - Intensive training for committed and enthusiastic amateur theatre enthusiasts, held in an 18th century château in Luxembourg, the first week in August every year. History, student contributions and booklist.
Ant's Theatre Stuff - Information about past and present stage performances from several English speaking amateur theatre groups.
I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Theater Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Theater
It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Theater "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Theater
"And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Theater This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Theater
The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Theater I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Theater
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Theater Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Theater
Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Theater That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Theater
Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Theater "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Theater
Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Theater I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Theater
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Theater Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Theater
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Theater Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Theater
We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Theater They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Theater
