“I’ve knocked everything in this show except the chorus girls’ knees, and there God anticipated me.”

– George Jean Nathan on a musical in the 1920s.

“It is longeth and it stinketh.”

– Caroline Alice Lejeune on Eugene O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh, (1939).

“A bad play saved by a bad performance.”

– George S. Kaufman regarding Gertrude Lawrence in Skylark, (1939).