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And in more than a decade of professional theatregoing, I've yet to see a single one.

Enjoy your theatregoing, but if you decide to take a bit of a breather this week, I don't blame you.

Has the credit crunch curbed your theatregoing?

John Munder Ross, a psychologist and the author of "The Sadomasochism of Everyday Life," said that we all have an unconscious desire to experience pain vicariously, and that theatregoing can ritualize these tendencies.

But the evening is never less than essential theatergoing.

Theatergoing becomes an adjunct of tourism, indoor sightseeing, if you will.

Throughout "Copenhagen," it was extraordinary the way the act of theatergoing supports the various concepts in the play.

It is by its theater and its theatergoing, as much as anything else, that a city defines itself.

Our family's recent theatergoing has been driven less by my own interests than a desire to keep my two daughters enthused about theater.

Mr. Fugard's understanding of South Africa's people makes for arresting theatergoing.

Mrs. Powell said her Washington theatergoing was pretty much confined to the Kennedy Center, where she serves on the board.

Theater making and theatergoing captured the mass imagination: Great actors and playwrights had stature not unlike that of rebbes in the old country.

An expatriate American freind of mine who has devoted five years to voracious London theatergoing is thinking of moving home to New York.

While visitors to London often bypass homegrown fare in search of plays unavailable in New York, comparison theatergoing has its rewards.

All this is by way of prelude to saying that one of the pleasures of London theatergoing is about to take root in New York.

All this theatergoing meant that very little time was spent at our hotel, St. Margaret's, although I had come to admit that it was very pleasant.

And he persuasively evokes the inequity of English theatergoing, as in "lowlier patrons" being "generally assigned their own entrances in adjoining alleyways."

It is an annoying intrusion that almost invariably ruins the mood of the play and destroys the willing suspension of disbelief that theatergoing is all about.

But the whole enterprise of summer theater is pressure-free, and taking part in it feels untaxing and purely enjoyable in a way that city theatergoing is not.

We were converted one summer after a week of constant theatergoing in London, when we realized that we often needed to eat at hours good restaurants didn't want to serve us.

Having seen this season's productions by the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival, has the young playwright enhanced his theatergoing with trips to Broadway and Off Broadway?

If artists start to feel that they are irrelevant and that theatergoing is no longer a passion but a diversion for the privileged, I think the artists are going to start drying up.

For residents of Westchester County, the four plays and a musical remaining in New York Stage and Film's 11th summer season, which began on June 24, is an alternative to conventional theatergoing.

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One of the greater disappointments of my own youthful theatergoing was Miss Hayes's overly cute portrayal of Amanda Wingfield in a revival of Tennessee Williams's "The Glass Menagerie."

But serious ballet can make for serious theatergoing, as the Eifman Ballet of St. Petersburg proved on Tuesday night when its marvelously intense dancers returned for a two-week engagement at City Center.

Although we often ascribe the allure of live theater to its immediacy, the experience of Broadway theatergoing has been mediated by mechanization for some time now, ever since musicals began using amplification to enhance the orchestra and the vocals.

The show had a Champagne director (Mike Nichols) and a deluxe roster of stars (William Hurt, Christopher Walken, Sigourney Weaver, Harvey Keitel) that made the play seem the last word in sophisticated theatergoing.

But the West End's summer season wants to change my theatregoing habits.

World War I brought a change in the tastes of the theatregoing public.

Revived many times on stage (with Brynner starring in revivals until 1985), the musical has remained a favourite of the theatregoing public.

Each class attends a Broadway or Off-Broadway performance and participates in eight in-class workshops that include scene writing, improvisation, etc., which serves as preparation for their theatregoing experience.

Of course, she couldn't altogether join the dots so as to make out the crushing dramatic irony - the terror for which Kirov's killing (almost certainly ordered by his theatregoing companion) was the curtain-raiser had yet to be played out.

As a theatre director he has staged several productions at the Shakespeare's Globe, including his lively 'Prologue Production' of The Two Gentlemen of Verona starring Mark Rylance as Proteus, which opened the Globe to the theatregoing public in August 1996, a year before the formal opening Gala.

"We're trying to build a theatergoing culture in the area," she said.

And also as an example of what's shameful in the British theatergoing character.

The audiences pay to see what interests them and the theatergoing public is not very Latin."

Somewhere in there you have to have the traditional theatergoing audience."

Must the "winners and losers" paradigm infect the theatergoing experience?

These playwrights are mostly unknown to a large theatergoing audience, and their work will need financial subsidy.

Without expectations I went to see it, mainly because the week before Christmas there wasn't much else on my theatergoing schedule.

"I think there was obviously an assumption that there would be a huge theatergoing audience going to a lot of shows.

"The New York Shakespeare Festival has been the most important theater in my theatergoing life," he said.

By New York standards, Washingtonians are positively genteel in their theatergoing habits.

Or has the nature of the American theatergoing public forced Mr. Nichols to make a dangerous drama less threatening?

"There is an existing, aware and interested theater community here, with a theatergoing habit," Ms. Ekstrand said in a recent telephone interview.

The result is "Swine Lake," a rewarding collaboration that serves as a wonderful introduction for young children to the theatergoing habit.

"It raised everybody's consciousness about deaf people and the possibility of inclusion into mainstream theatergoing audiences," Ms. Penn said.

"Broadway producers just have to take a realistic point of view, to make the theatergoing public aware of Off Broadway.

Despite the inconveniences of attending a performance with the President, having Mr. Clinton in the audience provided a theatergoing experience not soon forgotten.

This was a highlight not just of my theatergoing year, but of my theatergoing life.

Since its establishment in 1969, KCACTF has reached more than 17.5 million theatergoing students and teachers nationwide.

His stylized renditions of Shakespeare shocked a theatergoing public that expected to see faithful renditions of British originals.

StageVision is a new step toward commercialization, but Mr. Whitacre said those involved have been careful not to detract from the theatergoing experience.

No wonder, then, that "Runway" made my theatergoing companion remark that burlesque shows as well as fashion shows feature runways with bodies on display.

The play, for all its limitations, does traffic in the sort of intellectually garnished gossip that is often catnip for a hefty element of the theatergoing audience.

The mellifluousness associated with an education from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London may be music to the ears of many theatergoing Americans.

Two summers ago Mr. Ayckbourn's hauntingly lovely "Private Fears in Public Places" was a highlight of my theatergoing year.

"This is a theatergoing community," said Lori A. Dunn, a reporter for The Texarkana Gazette, in her Texas drawl.