Stage Drama Quotes

'Man and Superman,' first performed in 1905, is by common consent one of George Bernard Shaw's greatest and most significant plays, yet hardly anybody performs it today, for the understandable reason that an uncut performance runs for about five hours.

Let us have no ranting tragedies. Too many charactersNot a tolerable woman's part in the play.

And I try to be as diplomatic as I can, but it always ends up being a psychodrama up there on stage.

I'm not a big, three-hour-play, Ibsen-revival kind of man.

Some of the most interesting questions needing to be asked today can best be asked on television, or on stage, and they can be wonderful, great dramas, but they won't necessarily be blockbusters.

I love plays. Even bad ones. I like the fact that actual live, breathing people are standing before you in tense situations that you are not personally responsible for.

I think that 'Flesh and Bone' represents the dance world very authentically. There's always this aspect of drama put on top of it, and it's showcasing the problems of the dance world, but I've had experiences in reality that were written into the show.

Sitcoms are more like stage drama than anything else on film - more than a one-hour and certainly more than a movie. You get a script on Monday. You rehearse all week. And on Friday, you're on.

Parsi theater was known for melodrama.

In the theatrical works we love and admire the most, the ending of the drama generally takes place offstage.

All actors say they're concerned about the state of the theatre, but what they're really concerned about is that there'll be less work around.

When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around.