About Quote by Craig Brown

Don't be taken in by the guff that critics are killing the theater. Commonly they sin on the side of enthusiasm. Too often they…

— Tallulah Bankhead

I don't mean to be oily, but critics are very much part of the theatre.

— Diana Rigg

Mostly, theater becomes blander and blander as everyone wants the same thing they saw before. The good plays are the ones that don't allow…

— Roger Rees

I don't see that many plays, and for me, musicals are rarely pleasing.

— Wallace Shawn

Plays can outlast even the opinions of the chief film critic of The New York Times and that reviews, although they feel devastating in…

— Tony Kushner

I often think a play gets better and better as you hit a stride because you really find new things. One of the great…

— Jennifer Westfeldt

Fortunately, our audiences are used to a kind of boredom in the theatre, and if the writer is skillful, he will flatter them into…

— Gore Vidal

I've been pretty well treated by the critics, but the critics who didn't like my comedies hated them with an unbridled passion, and then…

— David Lindsay-Abaire

Even if the play is great, every day in theatre you have to question everything because the audience is new every day. I love…

— Clotilde Hesme

I don't think the audience always listens to the critics. That's been proven time and time again.

— Mel Gibson

The critics suppose that it is easy to write a play. They aren't aware that writing a good play is difficult and writing a…

— Anton Chekhov

When it is good, theatre takes a lot of beating both to watch and perform.

— Dan Stevens