Quotes and One Liners

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

The only thing I didn’t like about The Barretts of Wimpole Street was the play.

Reviews/Criticism “Barretts of Wimpole Street” Theater

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet

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

Reviews/Criticism On a dull play with an annoying child star Theater

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

Hook and Ladder is the sort of play that gives failures a bad name.

Walter Kerr

(1913 – 1996) writer & Broadway theater critic

Reviews/Criticism “Hook and Ladder” Theater

In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.

George Bernard Shaw

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist

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

Mike Nichols

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

Entertainment Musicals Theater

She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.

Acting Reviews/Criticism Of Katherine Hepburn in "The Lake" Theater

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet

If you don't knit bring a good book.

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet

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

Robert Anderson

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

Entertainment Theater

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

Sean O’Casey

(1880 – 1964) Irish dramatist

Entertainment Life World Stage Theater

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

Acting Communication Entertainment Reviews/Criticism Theater

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

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

Reviews/Criticism Theater When the opening night of the London musical “Gone With the Wind” was marred by an obnoxious young actress and a horse that relieved itself onstage

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

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

John Dexter

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

Entertainment Theater To dramatist Arnold Wesker

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.

Reviews/Criticism Of Tolstoy’s “Redemption” Theater

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet

Long experience has taught me that in England nobody goes to the theater unless he or she has bronchitis.

James Agate

(1877 – 1947) British diarist & critic

England Entertainment Places Theater

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

Percy Hammond

(1873–1936) American theater critic

Reviews/Criticism Criticism of a musical Theater

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

George S. Kaufman

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

The audience would have booed and hissed after the first act, but you can't do that and yawn at the same time.

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

Entertainment TV/Movie Quotes As Ouiser in “Steel Magnolias” Plays Theater

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

Another Anderson's Law

Money Murphy’s Laws Theater

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

Shirley MacLaine

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

For God's sake, go and tell that young man to take that Rockingham tea service out of his tights.