Keyword: Theater

Shut up Arnold, or I’ll direct this play the way you wrote it!

(1925 – 1990) English theatre, opera & film director

The only thing I didn’t like about The Barretts of Wimpole Street was the play.

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet

I could eat alphabet soup and shit better lyrics.

(1909 – 1976) American lyricist, songwriter & singer

Hook and Ladder is the sort of play that gives failures a bad name.

(1913 – 1996) writer & Broadway theater critic

Opening night: The night before the play is ready to open.

(1882 – 1958) drama critic, editor

For a director, a musical is a special kind of hell.

(1931 – 2014) German-born American director, producer, actor & comedian

She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet

My life has a superb cast but I can’t figure out the plot.

(1933 – ) English author & cartoonist

There was laughter at the back of the theater, leading to the belief that someone was telling jokes back there.

(1889 – 1961) Am. playwright, theater director & producer & humorist

She took her curtain calls as though she has just been un-nailed from the cross.

(1899 – 1973) English playwright, actor, composer, director & songwriter

You can make a killing in the theater, but not a living.

(1917 – 2009) American playwright, screenwriter & theater producer

I have knocked everything but the knees of the chorus girls, and nature has anticipated me there.

(1873–1936) American theater critic

She stopped the show – but then the show wasn't traveling very fast.

(1899 – 1973) English playwright, actor, composer, director & songwriter

I thought the play was frightful but I saw it under particularly unfortunate circumstances…. the curtain was up.

(1889 – 1961) Am. playwright, theater director & producer & humorist

Radio is the theater of the mind; television is the theater of the mindless.

(1921 – 2000) comedian, television host, musician, actor & writer

All through the five acts of that Shakespearean tragedy he played the King as though under momentary apprehension that someone else was about to play the Ace.

(1850 – 1895) American writer

You know, I go to the theatre to be entertained… I don’t want to see plays about rape, sodomy and drug addiction… I can get all that at home.

(1937 – 1995) English satirist, writer & comedian

For God's sake, go and tell that young man to take that Rockingham tea service out of his tights.

(1899 – 1973) English playwright, actor, composer, director & songwriter

Two things should be cut – the second act and the child's throat.

(1899 – 1973) English playwright, actor, composer, director & songwriter

I do not see plays, because I can nap at home for free.

(1934 – ) American actress, dancer, activist & author

You can make a killing in the theatre, but not a living.