312 Quotes About Plays

It's commonplace to describe theater—the activity underpinning the very existence of this book—as a collaborative artform in which the author's words are shaped, embodied and adapted by actors, directors, producers, designers, musicians and above all, audiences.

O, thou art fairer than the evening air     Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars;     Brighter art thou than flaming Jupiter     When he appear'd to hapless Semele;     More lovely than the monarch of the sky     In wanton Arethusa's azur'd armsExcerpt From: Christopher Marlowe. “The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus

Then in the spring something happened to me. Yes, I remember. I fell in love with James Tyrone and was so happy for time.

Emotions tend to entwine Earthlings together.

It is amazing how sharing of one’s intimate details can make human beings forget the formality of a relationship and bring them closer together.

Oh, come on! Nobody's favorite color is BROWN!

DANWhat do you want?ALICETo be loved.DANThat simple?ALICE It's a big want.

However much the plays and the masks on the world's stage may change it is always the same actors who appear. We sit together and talk and grow excited, and our eyes glitter and our voices grow shriller: just so did others sit and talk a thousand years ago: it was the same thing, and it was the same people: and it will be just so a thousand years hence. The contrivance which prevents us from perceiving this is time.

I set up and staged hundreds of ends-of-the-world and watched, enthralled, as they played themselves out.