Attitude Quote by Harrison Birtwistle

Unfortunately, opera engagements tend to be made five years in advance, and I don't really agree with that.

— Danielle de Niese

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

You really, really, really have to love what you are going to do in theatre because it is an unmerciful life. It's six days…

— Harvey Fierstein

The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing…

— Gore Vidal

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

I believe that theater has to be utterly life-changing for the people watching it.

— Marianne Elliott

Normally our season is seven weeks in the Drama Theatre and four weeks in the Opera Theater.

— Graeme Murphy

Life is not an opera. Scenes belong on the stage.

— Loretta Chase

I hear what people have said about what they want to see the Opera House used for and what they don't want to see…

— Gladys Berejiklian

Maybe all theatre is going to be irrelevant for all time.

— Israel Horovitz

When you have the cast, the sets, the lights, an opera takes on its own life. I'm not one of those directors who marches…

— Maximilian Schell

The trick about the theater is at the end of the day you cannot take any of it personally.

— William Ivey Long