If you want to create a masterpiece, you must always avoid beautiful lies.

My dream was to be a working actress that would be working in theater.

All life is theatre,’ he said. ‘We are all actors, you and I, in a play which nobody wrote and which nobody will see. We have no audience but ourselves….

Then everyone leaves, and you are left, each night, to your own devices with a crowd of interesting people – most of whom you don’t know – sitting in the dark.

I wasn’t even a theater kid in high school. I studied classical piano, and I ran track.

The only thing that matters is the theater!

In any case, the goal is the same: to connect.

TV is like theater. You can’t enjoy it without a program.

I take thee at thy word:Call me but love, and I’ll be new baptized;Henceforth I never will be Romeo.

I come from musical theater, and a lot of musical theater is about accepting fantasy. I think it is more about just being open and accepting.

You never get anywhere until you figure out the difference between passion and compassion.

I was a theater geek, and I was a surly cheerleader, and that’s really kind of a contradiction.

The stage is a magic circle where only the most real things happen, a neutral territory outside the jurisdiction of Fate where stars may be crossed with impunity. A truer and more real place does...

The words of his various writing instructors and professional mentors over the years came back to him at times like these, and he found a new understanding in their advice: Writing is rewriting. The rough...

In the commercial theater, I’ve been pretty fortunate. The producers that I’ve worked with have allowed me to define the artistic integrity, the artistic limits of the work.

You can’t show a four-hour movie in a theater, really.

I knew the Phoenix Theatre was going down, that’s why I looked for another facility to direct, to do theater.

So always avoid banality. That is, avoid illustrating the author’s words and remarks. If you want to create a true masterpiece you must always avoid beautiful lies: the truths on the calender under each date...

It’s about that applause I want to speak to you. I want you to remember that when you’ve done a little dance or a song or sketch, the applause which you get is not only...

I was pursuing the arts with theater in school, and I was doing after-school activities, but not in any real movement towards a professional career.

I’d love to go back and do theater. There’s nothing like that instant response and the connection to a live audience.

The first thing I ever did was play talent shows at the Uptown Theater and the Adelphi Ballroom.

To be working in the theater steadily and to be recognized and appreciated by the community means the world.

And if I sit in that room at the top of the house and I think about my life and if I shut my eyes from time to time and imagine being warm in the...

I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic, and a progressive religious experience.

All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.

If Patti Lupone was born to play Evita then Madonna was born to play Patti Lupone playing Evita.

I carry a little plastic tub with me, and I put my most valuable possessions in them—my means of travel, which are my feet. I soak them, sometimes for hours, while I watch a movie...

If you have a rifle, hanging on the wall in the first act, it should fire in the last act”.

The theater is where I belonged; I simply wanted to be an actress my whole life.

The pool was almost like a theater. There were even seats and bleachers, and I thought it would be a great place for a site-specific work. I would take dancers and videotape their movements in...

So, through all that early professional career I would occasionally do a musical, a pantomime or a play with songs. The next stop would be a Shakespeare, or an Ibsen, or a play by a...

Theatres are curious places, magician’s trick-boxes where the golden memories of dramtic triumphs linger like nostalgic ghosts, and where the unexplainable, the fantastic, the tragic, the comic and the absurd are routine occurences on and...

The theatre is a tragic place, full of endings and partings and heartbreak. You dedicate yourself passionately to something, to a project, to people, to a family, you think of nothing else for weeks and...

It’s good to learn early that every show is a family—complete with dysfunctional relationships, tough love, and plenty of occasion for forgiveness…

I want them to sell ‘Bubble’ DVDs in the theater lobby,

I don’t think that theater is the higher medium, that it’s better than film.

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.