Organizer Osvaldo Dragún declared that "today the open theatre belongs to the entire nation."

I went to M. Blond to beg he would speak to the patrician, to whom the theater belonged, and who, I believe, was named Zustinian, that he might discharge Veronese, who had engaged in the name of the king.

The theater belonged to me.

In 1835 he bought Djurgårdsteatern jointly with Ulrik Torsslow and Sara Torsslow; the theatre and its licence belonged to his wife's family.

It is very hard to say who the theater belongs to then - the artistic director, the board, the subscribers, the audience?

About the importance of theater in Dana's life, Mrs. Parker said: "He was brought up as a theater brat, dragged all over the country when Ken was playing in regional theaters in Seattle and in Chicago, and he feels that the theater belongs to him."

The theaters now belong to the local governments, Montecarlo's having just barely been saved from demolition for a proposed car park.

"This theatre belongs not only to Greece, but to the universe," says Periklis Koukos, the festival's artistic director.

By then more than thirty local theaters belonged to the Skouras Brothers Co. of St. Louis.

In an interview, Mr. Briggs maintained that the theaters rightfully belonged to all Americans, "or at least to all of us who have ever had to take grandma to see 'Fiddler on the Roof.' "