A good many inconveniences attend playgoing in any large city, but the greatest of them is usually the play itself.
Kenneth TynanA novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one.
Kenneth TynanA good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.
Kenneth TynanArt and ideology often interact on each other; but the plain fact is that both spring from a common source. Both draw on human experience to explain mankind to itself; both attempt, in very different ways, to assemble coherence from seemingly unrelated phenomena; both stand guard for us against chaos.
Kenneth Tynan