"When Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968, dissident playwright Pavel Kohout and actress Vlasta Chromostová, banned from state theatres, formed the Apartment Theatre, gathering in living rooms to perform his adaptation Play Makbeth."
-Robert Stanton, Theatre as Resistance, HowlRound

"And maybe it’s a place where you can bounce off walls, fight, fume, lose yourself, lie sleepless and then sit down to a meal, look around the table and know that you’re still all right, that you can let loose and still be loved."
-Todd London, In Search of the Artistic Home, HowlRound

"Should we be of like minds, hearts, eyes? Or should we be a collision of values and ideologies?
What chair is left empty for the people who will be in our circle not yet appeared?
A ghost is everywhere something known isn’t.
So I want to be where the ghosts are—especially when I’m in ensemble, making.
Which is why I’m here.
And why I ask--
What next?"
-Michael Rohd, About Ensembles and Universities: 100 Questions, 3 Ideas, 1 Story and a Ghost, Howl Round

"Today it is obvious that the Investigative Committee of Russia is losing ground on this situation…
“That is why we publish the list of those who, according to our information, were victims of the worst possible extrajudicial executions in Grozny.
“And now the investigation, which has a lack of living of witnesses, will have to deal with the special witnesses.
“Because only the dead have nothing to fear in Chechnya.”
-Benjamin Butterworth, Pink News, "Chechnya: Names of 27 men slaughtered and buried in bloody night revealed as gay purge continues"

“The most unique aspect of our work is that the primary decision-making power rests in the hands of the artists. Ensemble theater is the antithesis of the corporate model that dominates the theatrical landscape in America today… Our work is committed to the unique event of the living stage, where the imagination of artist and audience is linked in social communion and mutual creativity.”
-Manifesto of the Network of Ensemble Theaters (NET)