Clever Quote by Terry Teachout

The wonderful thing about theater is that anything, no matter how tendentious, no matter how stupid it sounds at first glance, can be made…

— Terry Teachout

It's not that Shakespeare is frivolous, but you spend your time just getting people to dress up in other people's costumes and pretending to…

— Jonathan Miller

Any scene in Shakespeare can be vulgarised almost out of recognition with the wish to have a modern concept.

— Peter Brook

If you decide to do Hamlet in a funny hat staged in a ruined factory, it doesn't make you Shakespeare.

— William Monahan

As an audience, if you see 1800s or something, it more often seems that the actors are carrying the weight of the time. It…

— Franka Potente

There's been a kind of inverse snobbery about culture. I get the feeling some people would look at Shakespeare and say, that's a bit…

— Munira Mirza

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

I think it's sad that movies and television have caused the theatre to fade as a popular art form. I hope to get young…

— Kelly McGillis

Whether it's Shakespeare or Moliere, irony is a key component in the construction of theatre. A script would be pretty bad if it was…

— Jiang Wen

Even in the tragedies, [William] Shakespeare always put in parts for the comic actors because his audience was mixed. He puts in people who…

— Margaret Atwood

Most actors are either a shower of bloody scruffs or think they should dress like Hamlet off stage.

— Martin Freeman

I think its sad that movies and television have caused the theatre to fade as a popular art form. I hope to get young…

— Kelly McGillis