Flare Quote by Celeste Holm

Theatre is alive and it is now, and then it's gone.

— Kevin Spacey

Theater is so wonderful and brilliant but it lasts very much in the moment. It's there and then it's gone.

— James Corden

What I love about theatre is that it disappears as it happens.

— Lusia Strus

The true theater, because it moves and makes use of living instruments, continues to stir up shadows where life has never ceased to grope…

— Antonin Artaud

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

— Simon McBurney

Theatre is immediate, it's alive, you're there with the audience, it can't be done again and again and again and again, it's organic.

— Kim Cattrall

When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when it's packaged as the Night Out, then that's the death of it.

— Ralph Fiennes

Anything can happen in theater.

— Leslie Uggams

Theater is a living creature. It takes a while to break in, like a new pair of shoes.

— Darren Criss

Maybe the theatre isn't any place for a reasonable human being after all. It keeps your emotions in such a constant state of upheaval.…

— Madeleine L'Engle

I really am a theater person. That means you put something out there, and you let it go. Tomorrow night is a new performance.

— Harvey Fierstein

We are in the black theater of nonexistence. In an eye blink the curtain is up, the stage ablaze, for the vast drama of…

— Herman Wouk