Concern Quote by Anna Deavere Smith

Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.

— William Ralph Inge

Theater will never, and never has, gotten audiences like film. But theater goes to work on society in a different and more subversive way.

— Athol Fugard

Most theatre is still really bad. It has to appeal to people who do jobs and have lives. Theatre about theatre is the most…

— Mike Bartlett

We live in what is, but we find a thousand ways not to face it. Great theater strengthens our faculty to face it.

— Thornton Wilder

Theater has an incredible capacity to move people to social change, to address issues, to inspire social revolution.

— Eve Ensler

Theater is a very changeable art. It responds to the moment in history the way the newspaper does, and there's no predicting what to…

— Arthur Miller

I believe that theater has to be utterly life-changing for the people watching it.

— Marianne Elliott

I think theater is a core need of a community.

— Sam Underwood

Theatre is expensive to go to. I certainly felt when I was growing up that theatre wasn't for us. Theatre still has that stigma…

— Christopher Eccleston

It's a shame how a lot of actors use theater as a stepping stone to film and television work; I think it shouldn't be…

— Peter Dinklage

Musical theater has sort of always been there for me, but I haven't always treated it with the same reverence as it's treated me.

— Gavin Creel

I don't know if cinema can change society, but if it can make us show some empathy, that's a good start.

— Shriya Saran