Quote

The theatre is a spiritual and social X-ray of its time.

I sometimes think that theatre is a torture.

There's a relationship in the reality with how theater is presented - you can't experience that anywhere else. When you mess up, you mess up obviously, when you sweat, you sweat obviously, when you cry, you cry obviously. There's no hiding in theater.

Theatre is an exclusive place that tends to be dominated by white men, or dying white men.

Theater is a dance of a different kind, a dance of rawness and characters stripped down.

Once in awhile, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often.

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

There's something wholesome about the theatre.

Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare's theater.

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.