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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.

In Elizabethan England or classical Athens... theater was at the center of, not culture, but society and politics and religion and civic engagement. Those things have a different audience.

I don't think it's the job of theatre at the moment to provide political propaganda; that would be simplistic. We have to explore our situation further before we will understand it.

But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.

I think there is no world without theatre.

Theatres, along with the likes of the Ulster Orchestra, for example, are the cultural heartbeats of our towns and cities, and without them, we are much poorer for it.

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

Theater is about language, so characters have to define themselves through language for an audience.

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.

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.