Needs Quote by Gore Vidal

The theater is a baffling business, and a shockingly wasteful one when you consider that people who have proven their worth, who have appeared…

— Ilka Chase

Theatrical work means too much work or none.

— Alec-Tweedie

It's a shame how a lot of actors use theater as a stepping stone to film and television work; I think it shouldn't be…

— Peter Dinklage

All actors say they're concerned about the state of the theatre, but what they're really concerned about is that there'll be less work around.

— Michael Gambon

The theater is a need for me. It's a terrible attraction, something I'm compelled to do. And one derives a form of nourishment from…

— Daniel Day-Lewis

Don't expect the theatre to satisfy the habits of its audience, but to change them.

— Bertolt Brecht

Nobody has yet proven that taking a chance and doing something unique that an audience isn't used to is a bad idea. What the…

— Harold Prince

What's missing in the musical theater is producers willing to nurture new work, raise the money and put it on.

— Harold Prince

The great thing about theatre is that the performance develops over the run - it changes each time.

— Karla Crome

There's always something more to be accomplished with a character. Theater is a human experience. There's nothing shellacked or finished off about it. I…

— Sada Thompson

Theater is a very changeable art. It responds to the moment in history the way the newspaper does, and there's no predicting what to…

— Arthur Miller

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