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Theatergoing is a communal act, movie going a solitary one. - Robe

Theatergoing is a communal act, movie going a solitary one. – Robert Brustein

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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 theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name. – Enid Bagnold

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…I have never known a movement in the theater that did not work direct and serious harm. Indeed, I have sometimes felt that the very people associated with various uplifting activities in the theater are people who are astoundingly lacking in idealism. – Minnie Maddern Fiske

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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. – Bertolt Brecht

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This…is an age of specialization, and in such an age the repertory theater is an anachronism, a ludicrous anachronism. – Minnie Maddern Fiske

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