Age Quote by Michel de Montaigne

It is the destiny of the theater nearly everywhere and in every period to struggle even when it is flourishing.

— Hyman Taubman

When I was very young, I thought the theatre was a place where higher beings went about their celestial business, as if they knew…

— Andrew O'Hagan

The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that…

— George Santayana

Many of my short fictions use theatre as a metaphor for situations in which characters find themselves estranged from the larger, uncontrollable world that…

— Norman Lock

I think in theater the playwright is king. Those words are unchangeable. They are the reason that everything else flows from.

— Greta Gerwig

I want to burn with the spirit of the times. I want all servants of the stage to recognize their lofty destiny. I am…

— Vsevolod Meyerhold

“All theatre, by virtue of its being a cultural construct and therefore ideologically inscribed, is political.”

— Mark S Weinberg

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

— Robert Lepage

The appearance and retirement of actors are the great events of the theatrical world; and their first performances fill the pit with conjecture and…

— Samuel Johnson

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

Wouldn't it be grand if we thought that theater could have that impact on the political life of a country?

— Patrick Stewart

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