Keyword: Theater

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(1933 – ) English author & cartoonist

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

I could eat alphabet soup and shit better lyrics.

(1909 – 1976) American lyricist, songwriter & singer

Musicals: a series of catastrophes ending with a floorshow.

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

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

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist

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

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

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

(1880 – 1964) Irish dramatist

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

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

(1877 – 1947) British diarist & critic

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

(1882 – 1958) drama critic, editor

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

(1913 – 1996) writer & Broadway theater critic

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

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet

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

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

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

(1873–1936) American theater critic

If you don't knit bring a good book.

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet

She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet