Able Quote by Edward Gordon Craig

Theatre is the art form of the present: it exists only in the present, and then it's gone.

— Simon McBurney

Performance art is going to be the future. Plays on Broadway are so restricted. But performance art is like haikus, just one line thing.…

— Yoko Ono

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another…

— Anonymous

To save the Theatre, the Theatre must be destroyed, and actors and actresses all die of the Plague ... they make art impossible.

— Eleanora Duse

Theatre takes place all the time - wherever one is - and art simply facilitates persuading one this is the case.

— John Cage

“The ‘role of the theatre’ is much debated (by almost nobody, of course), but the thing defines itself in practice first and foremost as…

— Tom Stoppard

Writing for the theatre is so different to writing for anything else. Because what you write is eventually going to be spoken. That's why…

— Sam Shepard

In the theater you can take your time and allow for people's artistry to surface.

— Amanda Bearse

Art cannot be looked at as an elite, sacred event anymore. It has to be embraced as an accessible, popular form, which is what…

— Diane Paulus

If you are a musician, you practise your instrument every day, but actors can't be on a set every day. Theatre is a way…

— Kalki Koechlin

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

— Tony Harrison

I think it's sad that movies and television have caused the theatre to fade as a popular art form. I hope to get young…

— Kelly McGillis