It's wrong to make a living off the theater. Theater should be supported, like redwood trees. You should make your living - whether you're a writer or an actor or a director - in movies or commercials. But you do theater out of love.
What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you're opening and cares about you. There's a real village atmosphere.
The London theater community has been very gracious to me.
If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.
We all need to go to good theater; that is what I believe will save it.
After 'Rent,' I tried to make a record, and it didn't work out, and it was the Broadway community that welcomed me back. It's where I feel the most understood, most at home.
The Broadway community means the world. That goes for the actors, that goes for the crew, the producers, the writers, and most importantly, that goes for the fans. The Broadway community is one that I will always hold very near and very dear to me.
The theater community at large, I have to say, has just been so warm and so welcoming, and that's not something I'm as used to.
There are so many remarkable playwrights working right now, that I see everything I can. Annie Baker is a genius, I'll see anything she writes. The same for Lynn Nottage, Cynthia Hopkins, and Lisa D'Amour. Anything they've got going on, I'll go see.
Support women directors. When a play opens, and it's by a woman, put your money down.
My mom was always pretty supportive. She saw me do plays and she'd always act out the parts I did.
I've always had not just an affection but a real love for the theater family in New York, and I really feel it is a family. I'm so touched by the generosity of everyone there.
All this thing that L.A. doesn't have any love for the theater isn't true.
