“ A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening. ”
- Kenneth Tynan- Copy
- 3K
“ Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred. ”
- Walter Benjamin- Copy
- 2.6K
“ The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled. ”
- Denis Diderot- Copy
- 3.2K
“ The theatre is supremely fitted to say: "Behold! These things are." Yet most dramatists employ it to say: "This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.". ”
- Thornton Wilder- Copy
- 4K
“ The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form. ”
- George Santayana- Copy
- 2.1K
“ Once I achieved stardom, the whole apparatus of the theater palled on me. ”
- Tallulah Bankhead- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Drama lies in extreme exaggeration of the feelings, an exaggeration that dislocates flat everyday reality. ”
- Eugene Ionesco- Copy
- 1.2K
“ The fixation of the theater in one language — written words, music, lights, noises — betokens its imminent ruin. ”
- Antonin Artaud- Copy
- 3.2K
“ The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to one's office for a job. ”
- Tennessee Williams- Copy
- 598
“ I think the theatre is as essential to civilization as safe, pure water. ”
- Vanessa Redgrave- Copy
- 3.4K
“ The theater is the only branch of art much cared for by people of wealth; like canasta, it does away with the bother of talk after dinner. ”
- Mary McCarthy- Copy
- 1.1K
“ There are those who go to the theatre as they would go to a brothel. ”
- Antonin Artaud- Copy
- 1K
“ I have never regarded any theater as much more than the conclusion to a dinner or the prelude to a supper. ”
- Max Beerbohm- Copy
- 3.6K
“ I thought we had outgrown the idea of theatre as a mystic rite born of secret communion between author, director, actors and an empty auditorium. ”
- Kenneth Tynan- Copy
- 3.7K
“ A good many inconveniences attend playgoing in any large city, but the greatest of them is usually the play itself. ”
- Kenneth Tynan- Copy
- 450
“ The theater is a great equalizer: it is the only place where the poor can look down on the rich. ”
- Will Rogers- Copy
- 2.7K
“ Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances. ”
- Victor Hugo- Copy
- 2.5K
“ A theater requires two good producers: one to produce the play, and the other to produce the cash. ”
- Evan Esar- Copy
- 372
“ The theatre is certainly a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely vanished pantomimes. ”
- Iris Murdoch- Copy
- 1.7K
“ It isn't a shortage of good scripts that ails the theater; it is a shortage of producers who know a good script when they see one. ”
- George Jean Nathan- Copy
- 3.8K
“ I think that's just the dichotomy of the theater, who funds and who comes to watch. ”
- Anna Deavere Smith- Copy
- 1.2K
“ This is where you will win the battle — in the playhouse of your mind. ”
- Maxwell Maltz- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave. ”
- Richard Lamm- Copy
- 893
“ I was not in favor of him uttering the line in the first place. But it was extremely good theater. ”
- Richard Darman- Copy
- 868
“ The theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything — gestures, sounds, words, screams, light, darkness — rediscovers itself at precisely the point where the mind requires a language to express its manifestations. To break through language in order to touch life is to create or recreate the theatre. ”
- Antonin Artaud- Copy
- 1.6K
“ By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door. ”
- Peter Ustinov- Copy
- 2.2K
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