Activities include theater, singing, drawing competition, debate, and recitation.

This year, the nonprofit theater will draw 75 to 80 acts for a season scheduled to last from October to June.

Last year the theater drew about 40,000 visitors, he said.

The theater draws 15 to 20 percent of its audience from tourists.

Clearly, the theater is drawing more than neighborhood residents.

He said that although the theater had drawn more than 100,000 people to its productions, it has not made a profit.

Ever since, the visual arts, film and theater have drawn on the 'Roots' metaphor, he said.

Before the "refrigeratory process" came along, theaters could not draw customers during the summer because of the unbearable heat in confined space.

However, it is understood that the theatre drew a net profit in its final season two years later.

Only live theater can draw us into interior lives so intimately and intensely.