Athens Quote by Diane Paulus

It's not as though there aren't many, many art works and many other cultures, but there was something special about the civic nature of…

— Martha C. Nussbaum

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

We will get back to the earlier, instinctive and less inhibited nature of theatre. Today, spectators are passive, but Elizabethan, Greek and Roma; theatre…

— Sam Wanamaker

I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible…

— Laurence Olivier

The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place.

— Stella Adler

A theatre is the most important sort of house in the world, because that's where people are shown what they could be if they…

— Tove Jansson

The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks

— Edward Bond

The theater is the place where people create ideas and send messages out, and you learn, and I think it's a fair venue for…

— Joel Grey

I did theatre in the U.S. because there, content-wise, it's very light. In India, theatre tends to get preachy.

— Vir Das

It doesn't matter where you are: theater brings people together.

— Phillipa Soo

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

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