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The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation.

I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture.

The myth that theater isn't for everybody is total nonsense. In the 18th and 19th centuries, everybody in America used to go to the theater all the time. The shows they went to see were big, crazy melodramas that had careening storylines and houses burning down and pretty girls in danger and comedy and death and destruction.

I did theatre in the U.S. because there, content-wise, it's very light. In India, theatre tends to get preachy.

A theatre is the most important sort of house in the world because that's where people are shown what they could be if they wanted and what they'd like to be if they dared to and what they really are.

Theatre has no national identity. It is something for the world, whether it is Irish, English, or French.

Theater is a public space. It is a spectacular space. It is a gathering place.

In our own, theatre can be the place where we come together, reaching with and through stories, to who we are and to who we can be.

The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation.

I think that theater is a unique way to communicate with people as they gather together with other people they may not even know. It creates a sense of shared community for the time of the performance that hopefully carries over into other aspects of the audience's life because they have shared this experience together.