Keyword: Theater

Long experience has taught me that in England nobody goes to the theater unless he or she has bronchitis.

(1877 – 1947) British diarist & critic

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

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

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

(1882 – 1958) drama critic, editor

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

All the world’s a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

(1880 – 1964) Irish dramatist

I understand your new play is full of single entendres.

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

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

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

I went into the Plymouth Theater a comparatively young woman, and I staggered out of it three hours later, twenty years older, haggard and broken with suffering.

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet

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

(1913 – 1996) writer & Broadway theater critic

She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet

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

(1873–1936) American theater critic

At dramatic rehearsals, the only author that's better than an absent one is a dead one.

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

The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

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

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

I could eat alphabet soup and shit better lyrics.

(1909 – 1976) American lyricist, songwriter & singer

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

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

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

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

In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist

The audience would have booed and hissed after the first act, but you can't do that and yawn at the same time.

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