American Quote by Diane Paulus

Musical theater is an American genre. It started really, in America, as a combination of jazz and operetta; most of the great musical theater…

— Rachel Bloom

I'm passionate about music, and I feel that theatre has an extraordinarily musical ability in the way it operates on the audience.

— Simon McBurney

Theatre for a New Audience is one of America's most admirable and exciting theatre companites...some of the best acted and directed work to be…

— Tony Kushner

I am a big fan of musical theater.

— Josie Totah

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

Musical theater must adapt to the fact that music is done by people. The new generation will do something different. That is great! That…

— Claude-Michel Schonberg

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

— Lynn Nottage

I've found that musical theater is my passion.

— Samantha Barks

The one thing I have always felt about musical theatre is that it is, to an extraordinary degree, about construction.

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

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

I think we sublimated our Broadway desires by doing theater in Hollywood - not on stage but by doing the movies of 'Chicago' and…

— Craig Zadan

I've always loved musical theatre. It's my favorite thing in the world to do.

— Judy Norton