Actors Quote by Bertolt Brecht

“The alienated audiences was one that was aware of the performance as an arbitrary construction of the real, of the difference between players and…

— John Fiske

Theater for me is about enduring human truth. Special effects can be part of that, but when they obscure what is the reason we…

— Neil Patrick Harris

When musical theatre is working and people are really connecting with the characters, and then the music adds that strong emotional element, it's really…

— Stephen Schwartz

Once in a while, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage,…

— Uta Hagen

“I am in favour of illusion, not alienation... Drama must create a factitious spell-binding present moment and imprison the spectator in it. The theatre…

— Iris Murdoch

Once in awhile, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and…

— Uta Hagen

The growing drama has outgrown such toys Of simulated stature, face, and speech: It also peradventure may outgrow The simulation of the painted scene,…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I think it's great to see that there is such a connection to film music and the way people react or connect to a…

— Ramin Djawadi

It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight.

— Jacki Weaver

Theatre is filled w/ passion, risk and drama (as much behind-the-curtain as on stage), perfect ingredients for documentary storytelling.

— Dori Berinstein

I think that's one of the things that has always put me in kind of an odd niche. It's that all of my understanding…

— Danny Elfman

The theatre infects the audience with its noble ecstasy.

— Anonymous