Anyone Quote by Neil MacGregor

I've always longed for the theatre and acting to be popular. No actor wants to play to an empty house. We only do it…

— Ian Mckellen

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

From kings to groundlings, Shakespeare made his work profound for everybody. That is how it should be. There is no hierarchy in theatre. It…

— Lee Hall

Theatre is a concentrate of life as normal. Theatre is a purified version of real life, an extraction, an essence of human behaviour that…

— Eleanor Catton

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

— Tony Harrison

You could argue we are a different audience today,but on the other hand what is it that makes Shakespeare great? It is that he…

— Sam Wanamaker

The wonderful thing about the theater is that it can emphasize BOTH our diversity AND our common humanity. In many ways, the world of…

— Howard Gardner

THEATRE HAS THE POWER TO MOVE, INSPIRE, TRANSFORM AND EDUCATE IN WAYS THAT NO OTHER ART FORM CAN. THEATRE REFLECTS BOTH THE EXTRAORDINARY DIVERSITY…

— Irina Bokova

Theatre is very much concerned with the society, with the social situation... A theatre piece of itself, demands a confrontation with the audience. It…

— Griselda Gambaro

In our own, theatre can be the place where we come together, reaching with and through stories, to who we are and to who…

— Juliet Stevenson

Theatre is a form of knowledge; it should and can also be a means of transforming society. Theatre can help us build our future,…

— Augusto Boal

I like to keep up with London theatre, but it is a question of time.

— Charles Dance