Keyword: Theater

I thought the play was frightful but I saw it under particularly unfortunate circumstances…. the curtain was up.

(1889 – 1961) Am. playwright, theater director & producer & humorist

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

I understand your new play is full of single entendres.

(1889 – 1961) Am. playwright, theater director & producer & humorist

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

(1933 – ) English author & cartoonist

The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

You know, I go to the theatre to be entertained… I don’t want to see plays about rape, sodomy and drug addiction… I can get all that at home.

(1937 – 1995) English satirist, writer & comedian

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

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

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

Radio is the theater of the mind; television is the theater of the mindless.

(1921 – 2000) comedian, television host, musician, actor & writer

For a director, a musical is a special kind of hell.

(1931 – 2014) German-born American director, producer, actor & comedian

At dramatic rehearsals, the only author that's better than an absent one is a dead one.

(1889 – 1961) Am. playwright, theater director & producer & humorist

All the world’s a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

(1880 – 1964) Irish dramatist

I do not see plays, because I can nap at home for free.

(1934 – ) American actress, dancer, activist & author

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

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

If you don't knit bring a good book.

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet

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

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

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

(1882 – 1958) drama critic, editor

If they'd stuffed the child's head up the horse's arse, they would have solved two problems at once.

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

She stopped the show – but then the show wasn't traveling very fast.

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

I have knocked everything but the knees of the chorus girls, and nature has anticipated me there.

(1873–1936) American theater critic

Two things should be cut – the second act and the child's throat.

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