Audience Quote by Lynn Nottage

A real theatrical experience shakes the calm of the senses, liberates the compressed unconscious and drives towards a kind of potential revolt . . .

— Antonin Artaud

The success of a play, especially one's first success, is somewhat like pushing against a door which is suddenly opened that was always securely…

— Arthur Miller

I hoped the dramatic power of the play would rest on that tension between elegant structure - the underlying plan is that you see…

— Patrick Marber

When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases for itself,…

— Anonymous

I've always been more interested in the audience than I have in the plays. I like that idea of all those people sitting in…

— Liev Schreiber

Writing for the theater is a whole different can of fish. The music now has the responsibility of so many things. The plot could…

— Frank Wildhorn

A good play puts the audience through a certain ordeal,

— Howard Barker

I am writing a play which I probably will not finish until the end of November. I am writing it with considerable pleasure, though…

— Anton Chekhov

I'm doing this play right now, the new David Mamet play. It's called 'Race,' and it's very interesting how people really leave the theater…

— Kerry Washington

The happiest moments for me, creatively, are doing readings of a play around a table where there's no audience.

— Jesse Eisenberg

Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them,…

— Arthur Miller

“the theater is one of the few places left in the bright and noisy world where we sit in the quiet dark together, to…

— Sarah Ruhl