Keyword: Theater

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

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

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet

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

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

Musicals: a series of catastrophes ending with a floorshow.

(1906 – 1972) pianist, composer, author, comedian & actor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(1933 – ) English author & cartoonist

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

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

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

All through the five acts of that Shakespearean tragedy he played the King as though under momentary apprehension that someone else was about to play the Ace.

(1850 – 1895) American writer

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

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

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

I could eat alphabet soup and shit better lyrics.

(1909 – 1976) American lyricist, songwriter & singer

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

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

If you don't knit bring a good book.

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet

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

(1880 – 1964) Irish dramatist

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

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist

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

(1882 – 1958) drama critic, editor