Identity Quote by Cyril Cusack

I don't see the theater as an establishment. The National Theatre has always seemed to me a people's theater. It was never meant to…

— David Hare

American theatre, to me, represents zeroing down on what the need is to get inside the personal hearts of people. I think it's really…

— Kelli O'Hara

The theatre should reflect America as it's lived in today. And that is a multicultural America.

— Lynn Nottage

THEATRE HAS THE POWER TO MOVE, INSPIRE, TRANSFORM AND EDUCATE IN WAYS THAT NO OTHER ART FORM CAN. THEATRE REFLECTS BOTH THE EXTRAORDINARY DIVERSITY…

— Irina Bokova

Theatre is, at its roots, some very brave people mutually consenting to a make believe world, with nothing but language to rest on.

— Sarah Ruhl

A nation that does not support and encourage its theater is - if not dead - dying; just as a theater that does not…

— Federico Garcia Lorca

It seems to me, in this culture, you need to have a subsidy to do theatre, not that I put theatre above anything else.

— Jamey Sheridan

The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life…

— Stella Adler

Theatre has to be theatrical. It has to draw attention to itself, like poetry.

— Tony Harrison

I don't think it's the job of theatre at the moment to provide political propaganda; that would be simplistic. We have to explore our…

— Edward Bond

In Elizabethan England or classical Athens... theater was at the center of, not culture, but society and politics and religion and civic engagement. Those…

— Diane Paulus

Theatre is a form of knowledge; it should and can also be a means of transforming society. Theatre can help us build our future,…

— Augusto Boal