Church Quote by Marsha Norman

“This is not a place where theater is a tool for telling stories about God. This is a stage where the craft of theater…

— Aaron Hartzler

My conception of the audience is of a public each member of which is carrying about with him what he thinks is an anxiety,…

— Arthur Miller

Theatre is poetry that rises from the book and becomes human enough to talk and shout, weep and despair

— Federico Garcia Lorca

Theatre has to be theatrical. It has to draw attention to itself, like poetry.

— Tony Harrison

The heart of the theater is the play itself, how it dramatizes life to make it meaningful entertainment. To achieve depth and universality, the…

— F. Sionil Jose

The theater is a communal experience, and whatever the emotional connection between an audience member and the actors onstage, it ripples through the whole…

— Colin Callender

To me, a theater is a kind of a sacred space. It needs a kind of ceremony, like what happens when you consecrate a…

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

Theatre's great. It's such an act of faith. It's a wonderful art form where you suspend disbelief for a couple of hours. It's a…

— Israel Horovitz

Theater, at the end of the day, is about ideas. It's about very large ideas. And if the play is beautifully written or smartly…

— George C. Wolfe

The theatre is like a Catholic Mass of language.

— Jean Giraudoux

Theatre can be so patronising. So often, it's just proselytising for the theatre.

— Tim Crouch

Performing in the theater is a very ethereal profession because you do it once and it goes out into the ether and it goes…

— Brian Stokes Mitchell