America Quote by John Lahr

The truth is that a lot of plays aren't political at all. In American theater history, political theater has tended to crop up when…

— Frank Rich

I'm a sort of political person, and I feel that there's a kind of ineradicably political dimension to theater, to all theater, whether it's…

— Tony Kushner

I love that theatre can be political. You can go watch a play; it sends out messages, and you can go away thinking differently…

— Cressida Bonas

Politics with me isn't theater. It's performance art. Sometimes, for its own sake.

— Roger Stone

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

— Tim Crouch

One of the things I find very little of in America - and certainly not on Broadway - are plays with political attitudes.

— Michael Lindsay-Hogg

A lot of theatre people are definitely not conservative, but I don't think liberals get to own the culture.

— Mike Gallagher

There are two kinds of theatre, good and bad. Much as I should like to see theatre in America, I would rather have no…

— Margo Jones

“Theater in America is a kind of weed sprouting up in the weirdest places. It's deeply democratic and deeply human, and I think it's…

— Mac Wellman

Theater is perhaps one of the few places left where we are in a dialogue right now. Everything has become so partisan, and the…

— Paula Vogel

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

American politics is theatre. There is a frightening emotionalism at national conventions.

— Robert Dallek