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Theatergoing is a communal act, movie going a solitary one.
Theatergoing is a communal act, movie going a solitary one.
The novel is more of a whisper, whereas the stage is a shout.
The novel is more of a whisper, whereas the stage is a shout.
The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends read more
The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the author, and where for one unique evening the audience is almost expurgated of idiots.
The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what read more
The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
No theater could sanely flourish until there was an umbilical connection between what was happening on the stage and what read more
No theater could sanely flourish until there was an umbilical connection between what was happening on the stage and what was happening in the world.
I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is read more
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.
We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical read more
We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
In the theater the audience wants to be surprised but by things that they expect
In the theater the audience wants to be surprised but by things that they expect
You need three things in the theater - the play, the actors and the audience, - and each must give read more
You need three things in the theater - the play, the actors and the audience, - and each must give something
