Art Quote by Tom Stoppard

Theatre is the art form of the present: it exists only in the present, and then it's gone.

— Simon McBurney

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

— Tony Harrison

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

— John Cage

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 can entertain, provoke, challenge, investigate, comfort and educate. It's arrogant of a playwright to think education is more important than anything else. Writing…

— Alistair Beaton

Writing for the theatre is so different to writing for anything else. Because what you write is eventually going to be spoken. That's why…

— Sam Shepard

In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the…

— Lee Hall

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

— Clive Rowe

Theatre is, at its roots, some very brave people mutually consenting to a make believe world, with nothing but language to rest on.

— Sarah Ruhl

It doesn’t make sense, it’s not logical, it’s not a safe profession or a smart profession if you wanna make money or have a…

— Santino Fontana

I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg. I believe in a theater where the director and the playwright work together to create…

— John Guare

Fortunately, our audiences are used to a kind of boredom in the theatre, and if the writer is skillful, he will flatter them into…

— Gore Vidal