Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

David Binder

American Broadway, Off-Broadway, and West End theater producer, Four-time Tony nominee as well as staging events and festivals

"Festivals promote diversity, they bring neighbors into dialogue, they increase creativity, they offer opportunities for civic pride, they improve our general psychological well-being. In short, they make cities better places to live."

"[Twenty-first-century arts festivals] ask the audience to be a player, a protagonist, a partner, rather than a passive spectator."