The best performers, he insisted, know themselves and their audiences.

These performers know that theater is the only way to find the past you want and trump the present you've got.

The guests are getting more famous, and the performers no longer know everyone in the audience.

The performers are now better known if not necessarily more distinguished.

Most good performers I know suffer from an excess of energy.

But often performers do not even know that they are providing grief counseling.

But a performer who has prepared a piece knows it better than anyone else.

It is after all something that only the performer can know and may not be able to articulate.

The messages can be questions for the deceased, or simply statements that the performer could not know.

But these performers know just how to take off the chill.