Long Quote by Yolanda King

I feel there's a power in theatre, but it's an indirect power. It's like the relationship of the sleeper to the unconscious. You discover…

— Tony Kushner

We have the ability to change people's minds and hearts - that's what we want to do with theatre. That's what theatre does... period.

— Gavin Creel

...I have never known a movement in the theater that did not work direct and serious harm. Indeed, I have sometimes felt that the…

— Minnie Maddern Fiske

It's important for me, politically, to see that theater isn't just about the powerful.

— Tim Crouch

The theater requires an essential gullibility that you can't get through life without having. If all you can feel is skepticism-well , you meet…

— Tony Kushner

Performing in the theater is a very ethereal profession because you do it once and it goes out into the ether and it goes…

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

The theater, when it is potent enough to deserve its ancestry, is always dangerous; that is why it is instinctively feared by people who…

— Hallie Flanagan

To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you're always trying to understand character and motives.

— John Eldredge

The idea of making audiences feel like they matter, that the theatre matters, and that they're a partner in the event—that's what fuels me…

— Diane Paulus

The way theater can bring people together is so powerful.

— Phillipa Soo

Theater for me is about enduring human truth. Special effects can be part of that, but when they obscure what is the reason we…

— Neil Patrick Harris

Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't.

— Harvey Fierstein