I went to Princeton High School, when I was very serious about being an artist. I was in a theatre family but I didn't want to become an actor.
I think Bill Finn's one of the geniuses of theatre, and James Lapine's one of the diamonds of my generation. The two together are a joy!
I greatly admire how the essence of Nitesh Tiwari's films resonate with you long after you've left the theatre.
We need theatre that is contemporary, lively and relevant, and the only way to do that is to take care of our playwrights and produce their plays.
My sister and I are incredibly close, and we created together from childhood through the time we spent in Chicago at the Annoyance Theatre.
You should always ask for a refund at the theatre, apart from my shows, of course, where I won't be handing out any refunds.
People assume that actors working in films won't have the time to do theatre. But I make sure that whenever I'm free, I watch a play.
I was initiated into acting with college plays, enacted by our amateur theatre group, Natya Aradhna, in Sholapur.
In theatre, you've got to make the connect with your audience in the first three minutes. If you haven't, you know you've almost lost them.
I come from the New York theatre world, and I have a lot of gay male friends, so this friendship of Will and Grace's isn't such a stretch.
When I was 12, I played Dorothy in my community theatre production of 'The Wizard of Oz,' and it was very critically hailed by my school paper!
I grew up on stages. Not standing outside the 'Royal Court Theatre' wistfully, but with enthusiastic people from the community.
New York City is one of the greatest places on the planet. You have the best in food, art, theatre, and definitely people-watching.
During my adolescent years, I watched a lot of theatre. I had the habit of enacting every scene I saw in front of the mirror.
I love all the arts - so museums, theatre, music, walks near trees or by the ocean, time with people, psychological readings.
I love the intimacy of making movies. The focus is deeper and much more intense than musical theatre.
I am a theatre actor, but the last ten years I've taken parts in movies because it keeps me in money.
I prepare myself very intensely. I am at the theatre four hours before the performance. It allows for complete concentration and preparation.
I started doing amateur theatre and played Rosa Parks at the age of 12 or 13. At 16, I decided it was what I wanted to do.
The best conversation with Stanley Kubrick is a silent one: you sit in a theatre and watch his films and you learn so much.
Shakespeare has way too many lines. My ideal theatre piece is about 40 minutes long with no interval.
In the Christian combat, not the striker, as in the Olympic contests, but he who is struck, wins the crown. This is the law in the celestial theatre, where the Angels are the spectators.
There have been artists who've sold out arenas one year, and the next they can't fill a theatre. There's always more to achieve.
I was so scared of going back to the theatre after 'Hamlet.' I didn't know if I'd do a play again because I was afraid of the power of it.
In the theatre, you are in love with what is on the stage, with the moment. You just don't get that with movies or videos, or TV, where you know that what you are seeing is repeatable.
I try to see as much dance, theatre and films as I can because all of it feeds me in a way that I need feeding for what I do.
Theatre is such a joy because it's a group effort. Everyone has to move in tandem. It was lovely to be able to carry that over into 'Barry.'
You get used to being lazy doing films, but classical theatre's going to finish me off.
Originally what I used to love was being on a stage and reacting to a live audience and maybe my calling is more in theatre.
I was in eighth grade when I did my first Junior Theatre show. I was in 'Annie Get Your Gun' as a dancing Indian.
It's great to do small plays in the theatre and then go off with Blur and play in front of thousands of people.
Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.
The Old Vic has always been first and foremost an actors' theatre, a home for great talent and memorable performances.
For a long time, I thought I was going to go into law, but theatre just kept being so present in my life.
For me, a theatre is a dark place. It should be mysterious; it's where we go to get away from all the utilitarian things we do in the daylight.
We must always be thankful to our enemies as they teach us that the smiling face of the world is nothing but a theatre mask!
One of the things I find very difficult about theatre is the repetition - that something can slide away from your original intentions.
I think that one of the beautiful things about theatre - and a place like 'Powerhouse' - is that who you are is informing your work. There's actually no separation from that.
I just needed a job. Before being hired as an usher at the CBS Theatre, I didn't even know there was a show business!
I always admired Hugh Jackman as an actor in movies but also in theatre because I'm a big fan of Broadway musicals.
I hate the word 'production'...it's a ceremony, it's a ritual...you should go out of the theatre stronger and more human than when you went in.
Every play should be 90 minutes. There would be so many more theatre-goers if plays were shorter.
I spent seven years in clubs in England, Australia, etc. Not all comedians cross over to sell out in a theatre.
A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington.
When I was eight, I went to the theatre, and I remember looking at the stage afterward and pointing and saying, 'I want to do that.' I don't think that's ever changed.
My father is a writer and he always made sure that I watch all the plays that were happening in the Tagore Theatre in Chandigarh.
My introduction to acting was through theatre, so I actually saw a couple of Broadway shows that made me want to be an actor.
Theatre is filled w/ passion, risk and drama (as much behind-the-curtain as on stage), perfect ingredients for documentary storytelling.
I grew up doing theatre and spent a long time as a playwright. I still think very visually when I write.
A video taped stage performance is just - you know, it's never gonna be the same as it is if you're sitting there live in the theatre.
Songs from the theatre can be taken and put on record in a commercial and contemporary way, be reinvented and become standout tracks on their own.
Telly and films has been my thing, not necessarily by choice, and if the right piece of theatre came along, I would jump at it.
Poetry is all I write, whether for books or readings or for the National Theatre or for the opera house and concert hall or even for TV.
Theatre is liberating because it only works if it's truthful - that's what it requires. That's not true of film: the camera does lie.
As you know, before entering the glamorous world of Bollywood, I was into theatre, where I played varied roles, from a lover boy to a servant.
Imagining things are there that are not really there, with the green screen, is very much like theatre, when you're looking at the fourth wall.
I'm the only actor who has done everything, right from anchoring shows to composing and singing songs to theatre to movies.
I'd like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theatre, Marx for politics and Freud for psychology: someone after whom nothing is as it used to be.
I grew up in Los Angeles, and my first musical theatre experiences were at the Music Center in downtown L.A.
People think that theatre helps, but in my case, it slowed me down. I had to unlearn everything when I went on to a film set.
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