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Quote by Robert Brustein
The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even

The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent. – Robert Brustein

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The stage is life, music, beautiful girls, legs, breasts, not talk or intellectualism or dried-up academics. – Harold Clurman

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The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled. – Denis Diderot

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