Keyword: Theater (Page 2)

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

(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

I could eat alphabet soup and shit better lyrics.

(1909 – 1976) American lyricist, songwriter & singer

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

(1877 – 1947) British diarist & critic

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(1913 – 1996) writer & Broadway theater critic

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

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