Ancestry Quote by Hallie Flanagan

It being a remarkable fact in theatrical history, but one long since established beyond dispute, that it is a hopeless endeavor to attract people…

— Charles Dickens

I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it's repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.

— Fiona Shaw

The theater is a weapon, and it is the people who should wield it.

— Augusto Boal

The theater is the only institution in the world which has been dying for four thousand years and has never succumbed. It requires tough…

— John Steinbeck

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

It's important for me, politically, to see that theater isn't just about the powerful.

— Tim Crouch

For me, theater will always be very, very much alive, but not necessarily in the theatrical tradition.

— Robert Lepage

Theater is such an absurd thing. It should be made fun of. But it's also produced some of the most beautiful things in the…

— Molly Gordon

The world has never before had as much drama as today. Radio, films, television and video inundate us with drama. But while these forms…

— Girish Karnad

...I have never known a movement in the theater that did not work direct and serious harm. Indeed, I have sometimes felt that the…

— Minnie Maddern Fiske

All great amusements are dangerous to the Christian life; but among all those which the world has invented there is none more to be…

— Blaise Pascal

I feel that if you're going to do theater, you've really got to throw yourself into the deep end. You have to commit your…

— Marianne Elliott