They would have been very let down if they had to leave the theater and he had missed. He would feel badly. Everyone would feel badly. But he never let them down.

Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.

Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film.

I think that comes from being a dancer and from being in the theater since I was four years old. It teaches you discipline.

Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full...

Hockey is our national theater, our water cooler talk.

A lot of people I went to college with felt like they wanted to pursue theater exclusively, so I don’t think that I really was in competition with people that I went to school with.

I was involved with my theater program in high school, and I was involved in a festival where I could audition for a lot of different schools.

I think solo shows are starting to be viewed as legitimate theater.

Your boss takes a dim view of SEX?

I’ve just taken the decision that I’m going to now go full time back into the theater.

I love that feeling of going into a packed theater.

And the 442nd (Regimental Combat) Team emerged from the European theater as the single most decorated outfit to return from Europe.

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.