Quote of the Day (Robertson Davies, on The Theater, ‘Ever-Renewing, Like Spring’)

“The Theatre is a wonderful creature, ever-renewing, like Spring. Sometimes people—usually Broadway people, who do not know her as well as they imagine they do, refer to her as The Old Lady, but she is not old. Of course she makes such johnny-come-latelies as the lyric, the novel and the philosophical essay seem like babies, because she is as old as Prophecy and the Epic, with which she has a strong kinship. But that is not to be old; that is merely to be greater and wiser. She is wonderfully wise and generous, and large-minded enough to be proud of her bastards, the film and television, even though they are still somewhat embarrassing in their attempts to find their feet.”—Canadian man of letters (including plays) and former actor Robertson Davies (1913-1995), letter to Herbert Whittaker, May 7, 1984, in For Your Eye Alone: The Letters of Robertson Davies, edited by Judith Skelton Grant (1999)

Not a bad thought to keep in mind for those who watch the Tony Awards on June 9...