Audience Quote by Alan Ayckbourn

I'm a big lover of Shakespeare. In fact, the only plays that I've ever done professionally in New York have been Shakespearian.

— Samira Wiley

The only theatre I ever saw was Shakespeare.

— Harold Pinter

London theatre is different: it is a commercial theatre that brings the whole of society into one place. And Shakespeare grasped, better than anyone…

— Neil MacGregor

What could be more fitting - or more exciting - than to restage Shakespeare's plays on the very spot where they were first performed,…

— Sam Wanamaker

I've done classical theaters. I played Hamlet myself and Romeo.

— Damian Lewis

I think it's sad that movies and television have caused the theatre to fade as a popular art form. I hope to get young…

— Kelly McGillis

I think its sad that movies and television have caused the theatre to fade as a popular art form. I hope to get young…

— Kelly McGillis

The wonderful thing about theater is that anything, no matter how tendentious, no matter how stupid it sounds at first glance, can be made…

— Terry Teachout

You can find a connection with any Shakespeare role you play.

— Michelle Dockery

From kings to groundlings, Shakespeare made his work profound for everybody. That is how it should be. There is no hierarchy in theatre. It…

— Lee Hall

Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare's theater.

— Michael Tippett

Theatre has to be theatrical. It has to draw attention to itself, like poetry.

— Tony Harrison