Audience Quote by Robert Brustein

The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.

— Robert Brustein

In theatre, the main objective is to make the art happy, not the audience!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

— Tony Harrison

Don't expect the theatre to satisfy the habits of its audience, but to change them.

— Bertolt Brecht

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

I'm passionate about music, and I feel that theatre has an extraordinarily musical ability in the way it operates on the audience.

— Simon McBurney

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

— Tim Crouch

Theatre supposes lives that are poor and agitated, a people searching in dreams for a refuge from thought. If we were happier and freer…

— Romain Rolland

Theatre is immediate gratification

— Chita Rivera

Neither should the theater in our country be regarded as a luxury. It is a necessity because in order to make democracy work the…

— Hallie Flanagan

Unlike films, theatre allows you to experiment as an actor, which is fulfilling.

— Paresh Rawal

The idea with theatre is to come to an environment that you enjoy.

— Clive Rowe