Keyword: Theater (Page 2)

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

(1882 – 1958) drama critic, editor
Definitions

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
Reviews/Criticism

I could eat alphabet soup and shit better lyrics.

(1909 – 1976) American lyricist, songwriter & singer
Entertainment Insults Reviews/Criticism

Musicals: a series of catastrophes ending with a floorshow.

(1906 – 1972) pianist, composer, author, comedian & actor
Entertainment

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
Acting Reviews/Criticism

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(1933 – ) English author & cartoonist
Life

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

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet
Reviews/Criticism

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
Entertainment