There is no joy so great as that of reporting that a good play has come to town.
Sometimes we go to a play and after the curtain has been up five minutes we have a sense of being able to settle back in the arms of the playwright. Instinctively we know that the playwright knows his business.
I love going to plays. There's a subconscious side to it, obviously-some people like to be spanked for XYZ psychological reasons, and I like to go to plays, and I can't entirely explain why.
I really enjoy theater. I just went to see 'Death of a Salesman,' and it knocked me on my ass.
I'm not denying that it's exciting to have a play on Broadway.
I would like to be going all over the kingdom...and acting everywhere. There's nothing in the world equal to seeing the house rise at you, one sea of delightful faces, one hurrah of applause!
I don't see that many plays, and for me, musicals are rarely pleasing.
I love a good play, but they're too hard to find.
Once I was in my last year of law school, I started doing plays, as I said, without taking the bar. And I got hooked. I did a play called 'Marat/Sade', and I never had so much fun in my life.
Going to the theater is such a joyous experience. My dad would take my sister and me to plays when we were very young, like six or seven years old.
I used to do a lot of repertory theater. You're playing different roles all the time, and I love that.
I wasn't good at anything very much at school, but I did like drama.
I've always loved going to see Broadway shows. I've seen 'em all: Rent, Chorus Line, Cats, West Side Story, Guys & Dolls, Wicked, you name it!
I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.
My happiest times in the theater are when I do ensemble pieces. I really got into theater because of that closeness.
I do love the stage, and that is incredibly rewarding.
I love live theater; I like the relationship between the show and the audience. That's my comfort zone, but more than anything, it's what makes me happy.
I smile so much at the theater my face hurts when I leave.
In other things the knowing artist may Judge better than the people; but a play, (Made for delight, and for no other use) If you approve it not, has no excuse.
Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.
I always did plays in school because I thought it was fun, but it just never occurred to me as a thing to do.
To me, getting notes, honing the part, and refining the role is the real fun of the play.
I did theater summer camps when I was a kid, and I enjoyed them, but they never felt quite right. But then there would always be a tiny improv workshop towards the end of camp, and I would always feel like I liked it so much better.
'Peter and the Starcatcher' is the most amazing piece of theater I think I've ever seen. It made we want to be a kid again and made me want to pretend, which I do on a nightly basis.
I think the New York theater audience is very savvy. Sometimes you get newbies who think they're going to be watching Smash onstage, and sometimes you have people who have been coming to theater for years. It's the combination of those people in an audience that makes for a pretty amazing night - their ability to give each other permission to react and enjoy, in a way that maybe they wouldn't if they weren't sitting next to each other.
