11.   He worked as a director and lecturer in community theaters around the country.

12.   High-school theater led to community theater, then to Queens College.

13.   His father was an actor at Columbia Studios, and both his parents were active in community theater.

14.   It was at a community theater in Torrance, Calif.

15.   Just try participating in community theater.

16.   Krier went to Macalester College and worked in community theater.

17.   Later he joined a community theater in Hempstead, N.Y., not far from his hometown of Elmont.

18.   Latimer said her husband let her use part of it to start a community theater, the Unicorn, which still exists.

19.   Most took up community theater because they could not bear a life of bit parts and odd jobs on Broadway.

20.   Most have worked in professional theater and view community theater with high seriousness, making it a year-round second career packed with evenings of rehearsals and weekend performances.