I am a big theater fan. It’s mostly just being pretentious, I think, and trying to look smart.

In the theatre, once you’ve gone about eight rows back, everybody else is just listening to you. You’re very small, and nobody can really see what you’re doing.

Did I tell you what happened at the play? We were at the back of the theatre, standing there in the dark, when all of a sudden I feel one of ’em tug at my...

After ‘Dexter’ and ‘La Lupe’, I would love to return to theater. I’m just ready for more.

Theater is hard.

Exit, pursued by a bear.

Well, this is an unfortunate part of the UN institution. It’s the – the theater of the absurd. It doesn’t only cast Israel as the villain; it often casts real villains in leading roles: Gadhafi’s...

Anyone going into theater should explore all the possibilities, from Stanislavsky to Stella Adler and Sanford Meissner,

I was truly happy. But my state was not that of any ordinary satisfaction. It was a joy which stemmed directly from creative, artistic achievement.

We thought it would be great to see if you could put pop music back into musical theater.

When a show ends, for a few days, my body sizzles with leftover energy, like a tree in the wake of a lightning strike.

The thing that I had saved up for myself and wanted most to bring off was a fully fledged professional production of Hamlet at the Royal Shakespeare Theater in Stratford.

That´s the problem with planning a late night supper after the opera, not only does the hero or the heroine die singing, but you end up famished after the last notes of the finale.

‘The Wire’ was a combination of great TV and great theater.

In theater, blood is ketchup; in performance, everything’s real.

We know the original relation of the theater and the cult of the Dead: the first actors separated themselves from the community by playing the role of the Dead: to make oneself up was to...

I’m very much interested in doing actual theater.

Theater for me at one point was a lifestyle, too.

Sir Larry could be very strict and a disciplinarian, too. He had many faces; he wore many hats. But, ultimately, he loved the theater and he loved actors.

I was a professional ballerina. After becoming an actress, I did a lot of theater, which included musical theater. The first musical play I did was Murray Schisgal’s ‘The Pushcart Peddlers.’

Why are you so anxious to destroy in the name of a vulgar, commonplace sense of truth, this reality which comes to birth attracted and formed by the magic of the stage itself, which has...

Before shooting, I prepare with the actors much more like it’s a theater play than a movie. Apparently, that way of working is very unusual.

Let’s just say that the theater is not for the faint of heart.

people see so many movies that when they finally see one not so bad as the others, they think it’s great. an Academy Award means that you don’t stink quite as much as your cousin.

Theater dressing rooms are my home away from home – my second home, really.

If you are looking for something, don’t go sit on the seashore and expect it to come and find you; you must search, search, search with all the stubbornness in you!

I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon it.

When you’re in a show, all through rehearsals Tech Week hovers out there like a magical holy grail. In reality, Tech Week is always a train wreck of missed cues, forgotten lines, malfunctioning set pieces...

When I was 13 years old, a professional theater company in my town needed a kid actor. I auditioned, and I got the part, so for just a few weeks I became a member of...

After ‘Peepshow,’ I really don’t know what my next project will be. But I would like to keep on doing theater. I think I could do that forever.

When teachers participate in a literary experience with a professionally presented children’s play, they are offering their students a text quite different from anything that they will experience within their classrooms. Within this literary experience,...

Theater is something that as a performance artist you have to hate.

I’m really very sorry for you all, but it’s an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatrical performances.

I think musical theater fans – obsessive fans – are very much like Comic Con fans in our personalities. We’re very possessive, and we’re very obsessive, and we’re very critical. So don’t screw with our...

The Arts are the only acceptable theatre of war for peace.

They were totally supportive, always saw everything I did. One of the thrills of my life was when they went to the theater to see something that I wasn’t in. It opened doors for them...

I got into theater at an early age.

I’m always trying to convince myself there’s something important about what I do. But some peoples’ lives are really altered by a night at the theater.

I sort of grew up doing theater. And that’s how I got into film, actually.

The Play’s the Thing, wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the King.

Two objects cannot occupy the same space at the same time. We’ve never quite made peace with that in the theater—set designer Robin Wagner

Will the theater disappear? No. Is it healthy? Also no.

Look, I’m 40, I’m single, and I work in musical theater – you do the math!

Film is new for me so I’m so fascinated by it and love it, but I would pass out if I could never do theater again. I’d be physically ill!

This was awkward to infinity. Alex living here would change my entire routine. I was sharing a bathroom with my boyfriend. How scary was that? I had tampons and pads and everything in there. He...

I’ve never had any feeling of disconnection between the classical theater, or the contemporary theater, or musical theater, or the thing that we call opera.

Theater cannot include only people. What acts on stage is matter.

world’s most remote movie theater.

We should have done more damage to the Iraqi forces before they withdrew from the Kuwaiti theater.

All the world’s a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.