Back Quote by Arthur Penn

In the theatre we reach out and touch the past through literature, history and memory so that we might receive and relive significant and…

— Anne Bogart

To me, the job of a playwright is to explore and bring to light our lives. You can't hold back; you have to give…

— Ted Lange

Literature and film have a way of lifting you from your own existence and transporting you to some foreign place and putting you in…

— Khaled Hosseini

I don't pay much attention to how the plays relate thematically to each other. I think that's very dangerous to do, because in the…

— Edward Albee

Theatre takes place all the time - wherever one is - and art simply facilitates persuading one this is the case.

— John Cage

The theatre is a spiritual and social X-ray of its time.

— Stella Adler

I started to view theatre like a spiritual experience. You're on stage saying somebody else's lines, but you're saying them with full commitment of…

— Jim Sarbh

The books are always there, just the way you wrote them. The plays often don't turn out the way you wanted them to because…

— Stephen King

I wish I had read more and majored in literature rather than theatre. I think I would have been a better artist for it.…

— Idina Menzel

Theatre is the art form of the present: it exists only in the present, and then it's gone.

— Simon McBurney

We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations…

— Bertolt Brecht

For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to move on…

— August Wilson