Art Quote by Simon McBurney

Theatre is alive and it is now, and then it's gone.

— Kevin Spacey

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

— Tony Harrison

Theater is a very changeable art. It responds to the moment in history the way the newspaper does, and there's no predicting what to…

— Arthur Miller

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

Theatre takes place all the time - wherever one is - and art simply facilitates persuading one this is the case.

— John Cage

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

What I love about theatre is that it disappears as it happens.

— Lusia Strus

Theatre is simply what cannot be expressed by any other means; a complexity of words, movements, gestures that convey a vision of the world…

— Eugene Ionesco

Theatre is a very beautiful and interesting medium because it's a live show, unlike a film - once released, it's gone.

— Gulzar

Theatre is immediate, it's alive, you're there with the audience, it can't be done again and again and again and again, it's organic.

— Kim Cattrall

Theatre has nothing to do with buildings or other physical constructions. Theatre - or theatricality - is the capacity, this human property which allows…

— Augusto Boal

In much postmodern theatre ... the line between theatre and non-theatre is deliberately erased.

— Jeremy Begbie