Theatre
- Jacob Adler, Yiddish actor
- Alain Boublil, author and lyricist
- Peter Brook, director
- Maria Friedman, musical theatre actress
- Stephen Fry, comedian & actor (Jewish mother)
- Hermione Gingold, actress
- Henry Goodman, actor
- Nicholas Hytner, director
- Julia Pascal Playwright and director
- Meier Tzelniker, Yiddish actor
- Sam Wanamaker, actor – "The Globe Theatre" project
- Zoë Wanamaker, actress
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Famous quotes containing the word theatre:
“Mankind’s common instinct for reality ... has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism. In heroism, we feel, life’s supreme mystery is hidden. We tolerate no one who has no capacity whatever for it in any direction. On the other hand, no matter what a man’s frailties otherwise may be, if he be willing to risk death, and still more if he suffer it heroically, in the service he has chosen, the fact consecrates him forever.”
—William James (1842–1910)
“Compare ... the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama. Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown.”
—John Berger (b. 1926)
“The theatre is supremely fitted to say: “Behold! These things are.” Yet most dramatists employ it to say: “This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.””
—Thornton Wilder (1897–1975)