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| Acting, Directing, General | It is not theatre that is indispensable, but something quite different. To cross the frontiers between you and me. | Grotowski | Jerzy | |
| Acting, Directing, General | Opening Night: The night before the play is ready to open. | Nathan | George Jean | |
| Acting, Directing, General | You can't make theater happen without actors. The actor is the central ingredient in making theater happen. Audiences may come to theaters to see the work of stage managers, directors and producers, but the only people who can communicate theater magic to audiences, through ideas and emotions, are the actors. They are the only ones who can communicate this by themselves, and if necessary, they can get along without you. But you can't make theater without the actor. | Stern | Lawrence | |
| Acting, Directing, General | I think that first nights should come near the end of a play's run--as indeed, they often do. | Ustinov | Peter | |
| Acting, Directing, General | The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster. | Wilde | Oscar | |
| Acting, Directing, General, Backstage | The director is responsible for interpreting the playwright's work through the cast with the help of the staff. It is the director's artistic concept of the play that the cast, staff, and crew work to obtain. | Stern | Lawrence | |
| Acting, General | God comes to us in theater [in] the way we communicate with each other, whether it be a symphony orchestra, or a wonderful ballet, or a beautiful painting, or a play. It’s a way of expressing our humanity. | Harris | Julie | |
| Acting, General, Directing | Although the theater is not life, it is composed of fragments or imitations of life, and people on both sides of the footlight have to unite to make the fragments whole and the imitations genuine. | Atksinson | Brooks | |
| Directing, General | The purpose of theatre is... making an event in which a group of fragments are suddenly brought together... in a community which, by the natural laws that make every community, gradually breaks up... At certain moments this fragmented world comes together and for a certain time it can rediscover the marvel of organic life. The marvel of being one. | Brook | Peter | |
| General | The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation. | Adler | Stella | |
| General | The theatre is a spiritual and social X-ray of its time. | Adler | Stella | |
| General | 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. | Adler | Stella |