Quotes About Theater

Hubo así dos historias: una, de índole criminal, hecha de cárceles, torturas, prostituciones, robos, muertes e incendios; otra, de carácter escénico, hecha de necedades y fábulas para consumo de patanes".

Ese lunes la compañía Freie Deutsches Bühne estrenaba en la Casa del Teatro Die Unbesiegten, traducción al alemán de una pieza norteamericana antinazi, Watch on the Rhine, que el Argentinisches Tageblatt anunciaba como imperdible. Para asistir a la velada, él había elegido una corbata de seda

There's nothing grimmer than the tragedy that wears a comic mask.

É como acontece na maioria dos espetáculos: o público pode até se iludir, mas os atores sabem que a vida real está além das luzes da ribalta.

like a bell at the interval in the theater, and we all stood up and formed an orderly line to go in and meet our end. At the very last minute I panicked. I realized that my children would see it as an everlasting betrayal and so I went to an attendant and asked to be excused, to be allowed to turn back, except that it was too late.

People like theater that is safe, generally speaking — things that are easy, that are not too deeply troubling. In other words, people want to go to the theater and waste their time.

There was a young woman named Fleager Who was terribly, terribly eager To be all the rage On the tragedy stage, Though her talents were pitifully meagre.

The Great White Way.

One does not go to the theater to escape from himself, but to reestablish contact with the mystery that we all are.

I love costumes. I love getting dressed up because it really helps my imagination make the leap to believe that I am who I say I am.

Shakespeare's great." Duh. Shakespeare's cool, man.

There still remains, to mortify a wit,The many-headed monster of the pit.

The scenery in the play was beautiful, but the actors got in front of it.

I did 'Fences' off-broadway at the Beacon Theater, so it's amazing that Denzel Washington and Viola Davis brought it to Broadway.

Unfortunately I put the opening date on the 5th of December 1941 and on the 7th of December the Japanese bombarded Pearl Harbour. My dream of a theater in Washington D.C. came to a prompt end.

I grew up in Washington, D.C. But also loving the theater.

If you don't know what is being said, the rest of the actor's work is wasted.

I wasted too much time in my twenties. I worked, but I would do theater in the evening, and during the day I would surf and do irascible things. And then, for some reason, as I got closer to my thirties, I thought, 'Okay Joel, you've wasted enough time.'

I was terribly ambitious: I was always thinking why wasn't I in the West End. I really wasted my whole youth.

We go to the theater to be entertained, but if what is left after you watch the movie is a sort of eye-opening perspective on some social issues, then it can be a really powerful piece of art.

Please note when you watch a play, you can't pause it and go to the loo or shout into the kitchen for a tea. Learned that the hard way.

You go to a theater, you're in a darkened room, and you watch someone that you don't really know how many children they have or what their father's nickname might be; you don't have references and databases and rumors and half-truths - you're just transported by their storytelling.

I really feel like the horror genre is capable of so much. Especially as an in-theater experience, something you watch with other people. It can do so much.

We opened a theater in 2006 called Loft Ensemble in Sherman Oaks. And we write our own plays and do goofy characters and pack a whopping 20 people per night to watch our work.