Beckoning Quote by Chris Abani

What brought me to the theater, no matter you're a Jew or a Russian or Armenian or Latvian, are suddenly illuminated by stage light…

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

I had a high school girlfriend whose mother gave us theater tickets, so I saw the second night performance of 'A Streetcar Named Desire.'…

— Mike Nichols

The vision seemed to enter the house with me-the stretcher, the phantom-bearers, the wild crowd of obedient worshippers, the gloom of the forests, the…

— Joseph Conrad

“To Mrs Belton’s relief the lights in the hall were now put out and the curtains drawn apart. As all amateur theatricals are exclusively…

— Angela Thirkell

During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“I fought back the tears that came with experiencing something as perfect and powerful as the performance I'd just had. That was what theatre…

— Cora Carmack

They were all dressed in their finest as though life really were some magical stage play in which every moment ought to be illuminated…

— Anna Godbersen

I remember feeling the temperature change the first time the curtain came up, the difference between the audience temperature and the stage temperature. I'll…

— Sarah Paulson

“the old and worn buildings held a theatrical magic to their fading façades. They were weathered almost by design; they almost looked like they…

— Robertson Tait

I'm interested in putting something on stage that will have a very wide appeal without being condescending; that will reach an audience and make…

— Alvin Ailey

“To-night, for the first time in my life, I saw through the hollowness, the sham, the silliness of the empty pageant in which I…

— Oscar Wilde

I still remember the first time I was on stage. It was for a short play, 'Dilnaz and the Chocolate Cake.' And the only…

— Shriya Pilgaonkar