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.

You aren’t allowed back until you’ve learned to willingly suspend disbelief.

Communication is very important. And the arts do that, whether it’s film or theater.

William looked up… through his tears… past the catwalk and lights… past the sky… through the dark and clouds and stars and into the void where he once knew God existed, then turned himself outside-in,...

In student theater, you see a lot of political plays. But this piece sees things from both sides. On one hand, it gives this perspective of harsh, fascist law and how terrible that is, but...

I believe in the theater; I believe in it as the first glamorizer of thought. It restores dramatic dynamics and their relations to life size.

Theater is the crucible where we can create the dynamics of life without suffering the flames of their combustion.

The plays should have the half-life of plutonium.

We like street theater.

At the end it was everybody’s fault, not one in particular, because the place wasn’t meant to be a theater,

The reason I was in most of the movies I’ve done is that they paid for me to be in the theater.

Theater is a way to keep challenging myself.

The first few weeks of school were always surreal, like you landed on an alien planet with strange teachers and unfamiliar classrooms, even though the lockers and cafeteria seemed familiar.

Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.

I am not interested in living in a city where there isn’t a production by Samuel Beckett running.

A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is an ability to articulate human relationships.

That will bring our total of stealth fighters up to 24 in the theater, and our total number of aircraft up to about 220.

I’m doing a play, a musical. The musical follows the Mamma Mia concept. It’s my first LA theater project.

Theater feeds my heart and soul.

Que les poètes morts laissent la place aux autres. Et nous pourrions tout de même voir que c’est notre vénération devant ce qui a été déjà fait, si beau et si valable que ce soit,...

Any earthly production would have been cancelled at the slightest suggestion of rain, but this was William’s Stage—it was William’s call—and if the children danced and the congregation remained transfixed, the show would go on.

There’re previews for it in the movie theater.

On those nights, the words were for me alone. They came up unbidden from my heart. They spilled over my tongue and spilled out my mouth. And because of them, I, who was nothing and...

One of my comics is read by more people – around 70,000 – than will see my entire run at Manhattan Theater Club. That puts things in perspective.

I do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I’m in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement park.

One of my favorite classes was horror in theater and psychology.

We were tremendously encouraged by the testing of Analyze That. Audiences loved it. They were telling us that they liked it as much as the original. We recorded the laughs in the theater.

Being back in theater is amazing. I get really excited about it because I’ve missed that. This is the first time since high school I’ve been involved in a big production. I’ve been relearning everything...

The theater is a communal event, like church. The playwright constructs a mass to be performed for a lot of people. She writes a prayer, which is really just the longings of one heart.

Well, I’m… first and foremost I’m a theater guy and everything that I know comes from the theater.

If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that.But, if you want to just alter the chemistry of the moral matrix, then theater has a longer half-life.

What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.

Physicality is the basis of performance.

it would turn into a major motion picture, coming to a theater near you.

Backstage was chaos distilled into a very small space.