Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.

W. R. Inge

He steps on stage and draws the sword of rhetoric, and when he is through, someone is lying wounded and thousands of others are either angry or consoled.

Pete Hamill

The center of the stage is where I am.

Martha Graham

In the theater the audience wants to be surprised but by things that they expect.

Tristan Bernard

Whoever becomes the head of the National Theater finds himself in a position like that of Nelson's Column-pigeons dump on you because you're there.

Peter Hall

I believe in the theater; I believe in it as the first glamorizer of thought. It restores dramatic dynamics and their relations to life size.

Laurence Olivier, Sir

Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.

Alan Jay Lerner

The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.

Arthur Miller

We used to work in two great black houses: Chicago's Regal Theater, and the Apollo Theater on 125th Street in New York.

Donald O'connor

The theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything -- gestures, sounds, words, screams, light, darkness -- rediscovers itself at precisely the point where the mind requires a language to express its manifestations. To break through language in order to touch life is to create or recreate the theatre.

Antonin Artaud

In student theater, you see a lot of political plays. But this piece sees things from both sides. On one hand, it gives this perspective of harsh, fascist law and how terrible that is, but it also shows the other side and their perspective. I respect that in a play.

John Byrom

I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more.

Marc Chagall

I'm learning how tough it is to do the lead, to carry the show. This is definitely something I'll continue to do, whether in community theater, professionally or whatever.

Mark Kennedy

There were volunteers who would go to that theater at, say, 9 o'clock in the morning and work upstairs on the third floor. They were so devoted that they would stay for the evening performance.

Marjorie Belka

John always wanted to do a theater piece.

Hal Thau

Listening to the CD and coming to the theater are very different experiences. I've always had the feeling that piano could be kind of a snooze if you just place one song after another. I'm the only thing to look at onstage, so it's up to me to make it as entertaining as possible.

Jim Brickman

If somebody interested in theater wants to come along and pick it up, I'll obviously help them transition in that. But it's just time for me.

Ron Kaminski

[In 1999, he was cast opposite Bernadette Peters --] the queen of musical theater, ... Annie Get Your Gun.

Tom Wopat

I thought it would be neat because if these students go on in acting, they will likely be doing dinner theater. Insert joke about actors being waiters and waitresses here.

Amy Coleman

We strongly encourage (theater owners) to keep the ads limited in duration and make them entertaining in their own right. We hope there will be a migration toward fewer ads that don't replicate what's on television, because people can't stand that.

John Fithian

We had many luxuries, such as books an the theater, but not many of the necessities.

Marion Ross

It's stunning to me, the barrage of articles about the impending death of the movie theater.

John Fithian

Every year it's like a straight line. Last year our traffic increased 60%. Now we're supported by ads. The consumer wants information, especially about genre films, even anime. We're very democratic. Even though genre films get the most hits, even if a movie opens in only one theater, we still cover it.

Senh Duong

We hope to be expanding. We're starting off with three theater productions this year. We hope to expand it to four next year. We just want to have a real diverse season.

Mark Swezey

No matter who you are, there's a theater that suits you and a story you can relate to, ... You can wear your tux or you can wear your jeans; this night's for everyone.

Bill Schroeder

I love pure music, but you get a more complete package with opera. It's theater, it's music, it's drama, it's scenic design.

Frank Mcclain

The oldest form of theater is the dinner table. It's got five or six people, new show every night, same players. Good ensemble; the people have worked together a lot.

Michael J. Fox

When I was in a play in a theater, and all was going well on stage, I felt that the audience and I were somehow joined into one.

Conrad Veidt

I remember when (graffiti film) 'Wild Style' came to the (Honolulu) Academy of Arts. We loaded up the family in the station wagon. At the theater it was us and a couple of hippies from UH.

Jeff Chang

Whenever we are not doing a show in our main theater or after the main show, we will do things down here.

Jason Bruffy

I saw all three 'Star Wars' movies here. Four lines wrapped around the theater (when the first Star Wars film opened in 1977).

Jeff Newberg

It's not just for theater audiences, it's for women. We advertise in grocery stores, doctor's offices. . . . Not everyone has seen it and we need to go back to places until everyone has seen it. It has such an important message.

Kathryn Conte

I think we could put it at the Old Globe. It's great theater and they're both good at it.

Donna Frye

I wasn't very happy with the existing literature. They tended to look at the Earth as a cube. When people read books on the war, it's always like looking through a pipe at one theater or battle. They fail to engage the interrelationship between events.

Gerhard Weinberg

Journalism as theater [is what] TV news is.

Thomas Griffith

We're making sure the unit commanders here can still conduct their missions without the folks from Keesler, ... There are about 18,000 airmen in the theater, so we can pick up the slack.

David Small

It's a multimedia theater with all the bells and whistles, lots of entertaining things for the kids.

Mike Sarna

August's accomplishments are unsurpassed - to me, the only writer to come close is Shakespeare, ... He has been the epitome of American theater for the last 23 years. He's defined it. His plays not only serve an artistic purpose, but they also serve a social purpose because they look at ourselves as Americans.

Kenny Leon

Basically, the theater owners are tired of subsidizing it.

Sherry Weinblatt

The Electric Factory is not really accessible by public transportation, so having it at the Theater of Living Arts is much easier.

Ahmed Whitt

The fans are going to get quite a show. This is theater and this is living history, but it's also unscripted sports competition. It's not like a Civil War re-enactment. It's a real ballgame.

Jim Bouton

The truth is you don't like the theater except the times when you're in a room by yourself putting the play on paper.

Dashiell Hammett

For me especially, children's theater is the coolest experience.

Laurie Geigel

If you've got the choice between taking the kids out, getting a babysitter, and paying $50 for a movie or paying $3 for a rental or maybe $20 to buy the movie on DVD, why would you rush out to a theater?

Robert Bucksbaum

We are going to re-create a 1940s theater underground where the cart pulls up to the movie marquee with lights and facade. You will go inside and watch clips of some of those movies.

Jane Mccone

Golf is a centerpiece for the tourism industry in the Gulf Coast region and is responsible for generating millions of dollars in revenues and thousands of jobs. A golf course is no different than a restaurant or movie theater when it comes to hurricane relief.

Mike Hughes

I think it's going to be visually stunning. It's going to be a very unique theater experience.

Stephen Sachs

As theater legends go, they don't get any bigger than Chita.

Graciela Daniele

Theater performances are very inexpensive if you go off-Broadway, and the amateur performers in New York City are highly professional.

Karen Cure

I'm getting my theater fix. By far and away, I haven't done anything this challenging and rewarding in many years.

Cynthia Coulthurst

I'm interested in the spirits of people. In the theater, there's the acting part of acting -- and I'm not saying that can't be great -- and there's the essence. To explore that essence, you need a key, a look, a gesture, an insight that unlocks the person's soul.

Ralph Fiennes

In the theater, it's about taking time in a musical segment, a pause in a musical way and then moving on.

Marcia Gay Harden

I do think that this is a great opportunity for the theater, ... Hopefully, it will inspire other groups to help us preserve this wonderful piece of the past and make it continue to be usable for the future.

Barbara Webb

I could sell just about anything. At the same time in the theater, it was challenging to get people to realize I could be somebody other than that Midwestern young woman.

Judith Ivey

(The Bob Hope Theater) is one of the most beautiful theaters we've ever played.

Dave King

We gutted the space in anticipation of the theater. Really it was a timing issue for us. That's why it was left vacant.

Rob Finlay

This show and theater teaches children something they may not learn in school. They have the opportunity to develop a lifelong appreciation for the arts.

Amanda Hinkle

Every time a sentence about great American writers is written, it will include August's name, ... He defined the Yale Rep's relationship to groundbreaking American theater.

James Bundy

That's open to those who donate to the theater, $50,000 or more.

Lorraine Berg

This is the theater of the absurd. We've said all along the governor had to have a plan. When you have an actual plan, you have a funding source, a mechanism by which to repay the bonds. . . . This governor has none of the above.

Patty Schuh

The group that does costumes for the Tennessee Repertory Theater is doing our costumes. We have access to their stuff and we have the ability to have stuff made. It's wonderful to have our own costumer instead of having to go to thrift stores all the time. That's actually where most of our budget went.

Andy Ford

Like other nonprofit organizations, we've had a tough year, and those added revenues from the signs would help maintain our level of offerings like concerts, theater and dance productions.

Sandy Duncan

We're not asking anybody to boycott. We're asking them to communicate with the theater owners to tell them that it's not appreciated.

Melanie Morgan

It's a chance for children and adults interested in theater arts to see what it's all about and meet other people interested in the same. No experience is needed for any of the activities.

Brian Schultz

The people who come downtown to go to the repertory theater or the Aurora or Anna's Jazz Club are not doing more than eating in restaurants. Ross is a discount clothing chain, and it's the most visible store in the downtown area right now. We'd like to have more to offer.

Dave Fogarty

I knew there was something special about the theater for me something beyond the regular reality, something that I could get into and transcend and become something other than myself.

Raul Julia

One of the first and most important things for a critic to learn is how to sleep undetected in the theater.

William Archer

It would be a challenge even for the Delaware Theater Company to do a show like this.

Denver Garrison

With home theater and media centers, there has been such an electronics boom within the last five years. But we're lacking behind in technology. Statistics show that 22 percent of new, upscale homes built now include a home theater. Yet builders here have no clue about these things or making homes more energy efficient. We're starting to educate builders and residents.

George James

If this motion is approved this evening, based on the previous motion that Trustee Sebby did read earlier this evening, what you are doing is directing staff to go out for bids on demolition of the theater.

Bill Mueller

A young ballplayer looks on his first spring training trip as a stage struck young woman regards the theater.

Christy Mathewson

My big passion is teaching theater, ... I decided I wanted to live in a beautiful area and start a theater school.

Gary Schwartz

World's most remote movie theater.

John Pierson

To follow without halt, one aim; there is the secret of success. And success? What is it? I do not find it in the applause of the theater; it lies rather in the satisfaction of accomplishment.

Anna Pavlova

A lot of theater concepts are laughable; they're rubbish. What counts is getting human behavior right, all the tiny, negligible details of speech and gesture.

Jonathon Miller

The command over there basically distributes the armored vehicles to those they think that need them the most, ... Everybody would like to have one, but there's simply not enough in theater right now.

Don Shepperd

It was getting harder and harder to get that theater because the college has more and more of its own presentations.

Michael Garasi

In theater, you have a rehearsal period and you know just who to be.

Marcia Gay Harden

Every person on the streets of New York is a type. The city is one big theater where everyone is on display.

Jerry Rubin

I like supporting local performing arts whenever I can. I want to create a venue where community theater can come in. I want community bands to have an outlet.

Nancy Davis

There is a collective voice for black theater in America. This is where we all come together.

Larry Leon Hamlin

We have been kind of bouncing around for a lot of ... years. It's been difficult. It's been really difficult ... trying to put on theater.

Joyce Hendricks

We give students the chance to explore theater as a theater artist.

David Sullivan

For me, August Wilson is the person who made it appear that I had a place in the American theater. For the first time, I felt I actually saw characters that I knew, that spoke my language and had my stories and could express them in the riffs of blues and jazz.

Stanley Williams

The Academy Awards ceremony is designed to be without irony, but Chris Rock supplied it anyway with filmed movie-theater interviews with black men and women who had never heard of the movies nominated for Best Picture.

Suzanne Fields

We believe in free speech but you have to respect morals to have free speech. Publishing these cartoons is like screaming fire in a crowded theater. It is wrong.

Icgkc President Shahir Sahi

I can't think of one theater that doesn't have cup holders. Drinking is part of having a good time.

Michael Gill

We really do consider ourselves caretakers of the organization and of a tradition. Almost everyone who works here was a child patron, or grew up in the choruses. We're all proud to be a part of that. We don't say, 'What can I do with my theater?' It's really about how can we leave it in good shape for the next generation.

Brian Wells

We expect most of our noon clients to be 55 and older. Many older people are not comfortable driving at night. So this is a nice daytime attraction for them. Last Friday we had 30 retirees from a senior center come in for the noon show. Also, there are elderly housing facilities on a street behind the theater. Those folks live close enough to walk here.

Alan Nero

Political theater is not uncommon in the black church culture.

Robert Franklin

If you have gone to the university theater shows much, you've probably seen my work.

Jim Zimmerman

It's not going to be the typical dinner theater anymore where people are eating and seeing the show in the same spot.

Paul Jadin

In a lot of ways it's been like a dream come true for us. The theater is designed in a really neat way because it invites people to a downtown experience. It's more of a theater that would accommodate a night out on the town, compared to the cookie-cutter model of some of the commercial development chains.

Don Reynolds

We're a successful business. One property does not make us; one property cannot hurt us. Our vision is to eventually have the theater rented and have income coming through. We have over $400 million in real estate. That's why we're able to work with the community.

Gary Kahn

We created the theater, independently from the church, as a nonprofit organization. The idea is to create an umbrella, which we intend to have other programs underneath.

Genaro Marin

DAY: "I have a good job, a lovely apartment, I go out with very nice men to the best places, the finest restaurants, the theater. What am I missing?"/ RITTER: "If you hove to ask, believe me, you're missing it."

Doris Day

There needs to be some steps before this becomes a home theater system.

Harry Blount

I had such extraordinary breaks from the moment I entered the theater.

Dorothy Mcguire

As a writer, I was writing for the Jane Wyman Theater, that was an anthology, and The Dick Powell Show was an anthology, and then the Danny Thomas Hour, and then Playhouse 90.

Aaron Spelling

These numbers are suggesting that a future Federal Reserve tightening will be coming to a theater near you quite soon.

Anthony Chan

I would love to study musical theater in a big city. New York University and the Boston Conservatory have always been at the back of my mind.

Devon Williams

The fact that this operation was a notable military success should not blind us to the very real difficulties which our armed forces had to cope with in terms of hurried deployment, inadequate supplies and a lack of time for proper in-theater training.

Bruce George

Several members of the theater audience complained that the guest's outbursts were disruptive.

Melanie Bell

Plans are to develop the existing CMC space along with the existing Cascade Village Theater ... into 11 residences and some commercial/office/retail space.

Michael Hecht

I don't want the kind of theater that I love and grew up seeing to die out.

Jerry Herman

It was a lot of fun to be able to see things from another side. It was kind of nerve-wracking to sing at the audition, but it was OK. They've been very good to us, and Bart is probably just about one of the best people you could hope to work with in the theater business.

Travis Moore

Chris Rock doesn't do that, ... They're paying me my normal rate like I was doing a theater or college. So I'm there. Me in someone's living room.

Kathy Griffin

Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they're afraid that they'll be forgotten. And in America they're quite right. They will be.

Agnes De Mille

A part of that is because we added a fall season. We play through September and it used to play through the third week of August. I just felt like one of the reasons they had built the housing and had made major theater renovations in 1992 was they wanted to extend the season.

Maurice Lamee

Because of the power of television, I was visible to everybody all over the world. But there are many things in the theater that are more fulfilling and that I look forward to doing more. But really, I love it all: theater, film, television.

Charlotte Rae

There is a spot for everybody in community theater, regardless of talent, regardless of age, regardless of ability. And I think that's part of the charm of it.

Don Urban

In a sense I feel very much a part of the cinema now in a way where when I come back to the theater now I feel like a visitor. The cinema is really what I enjoy. I want to do more independent movies.

Brian Cox

I went out there, and she was playing some theater.

Jim Breuer

It gave people a way to discover these movies rather than the traditional marketing that is thrown their way. Hey, whatever gets 'em in the theater, I'm sure the studio doesn't mind.

Paul Dergarabedian

My heart is in the theater, of course.

Tom Aldredge

I don't take my kids to the movie theater because it is a lot easier to watch it at home. I can take a break whenever I want.

Jeff Kang

I was afraid, like everyone there now is very afraid, and that's why the government continues to exist in that great theater that is living in Cuba.

Raul Rivero

Today's restaurant is theater on a grand scale.

Marian Burros

Those two Liquid Tension albums introduced me to Dream Theater fans. And it helped ease my joining a bit.

Jordan Rudess

The whole premise of the show is that the audience comes in and fills out half a dozen cards before they go into the theater.

Michael Bias

What that did was take a lot of money from black theaters. It really hurt the black theater.

Charles Weldon

My dad used to take me to the theater, and we'd get all dressed up. There was a respect. Now, people don't know that they shouldn't put their feet up on stage.

Julianna Margulies

Simply because if you look at the music business, there aren't a lot of new artists that can fill up an arena. Realistically, some of the best music today is (by) people like Norah Jones or Alicia Keys (who) are more suited (to) the intimacy of a theater.

Tim Leiweke

What makes this show so good for the theater and the community is that it builds a diverse audience.

Harry Bryce

We are just north of the Theater District, just east of the Galleria. We are only a few blocks from the lake from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Jane Campbell

The proliferation of the chain theater has made it tough for independent historic theaters to book first-run movies and stay economically viable.

Richard Moe

She made one of her productions, 'Electra,' into an off-Broadway performance and it was so difficult for her, she made so many mistakes. It led her to think it was not right to send theater students out in the world unprepared.

Felicia Londre

I thought it was one step in the right direction. I and others need plays that are meaty and controversial. We need more than mainstream theater. Something challenging, that makes us think about issues.

Liz Davis

I'm honored the first show is at the Goodman. I have always been in awe of the theater, the spirit of generosity there and how much they give back to the community.

Jacqueline Russell

The number of young people in the theater was more than we expected. In fact, the audience had an unusual number of minorities and children of all ages. You might expect that for a Disney show, but it was still refreshing to see.

Sara Schultz

They're more interested in political theater than they are in the issues that will move the state forward.

Carla Blanton

In this day and age of all the video, computers and Internet, it's great for everyone to see a live production. It's vibrant, it's right there, and the audience is part of it. Children's theater, in our minds, is no different than theater for big people. Good theater is good theater.

Nancy Schaeffer

But Lunceford was playing great music, and he was just a wonderful human being. We didn't even curse in front of him. We would play seven different shows a day at the Paramount Theater in New York, and we had seven different uniforms. People were lined around the block from Broadway to Seventh Avenue.

Gerald Wilson

We're having a lot of young people participate, and we want to make sure the theater is a safe environment for them.

Barbara Webb

If I wasn't in the theater, I would be a hermit.

Richard Foreman

It's a wonderful way to introduce children to the magic of live theater, with characters they can easily identify with.

Tom Thayer

In a theater you have that many more seats, so that many more people, and they are feeding you, telling you how far you can go or what you can do.

Bea Arthur

Is it reasonable to expect a theater can at least break even, and I think it's certainly possible.

Matt Fisher

He is today's Ray Mears, but probably a better basketball strategist. He knows how to have fun. The thing he did with Dane Bradshaw just loosens the team up and it's great theater. Buzz was a great guy, but he didn't have the charisma this cat has.

Duncan Stewart

This part of Lutz is suburban. The proposed height for a hospital is compatible on Van Dyke Road next to a theater and supermarket.

Andrew Baker

We have three properties where we actually tore down the clubhouses and built new ones. At the one at [Versailles on the Lakes in] Oakbrook Terrace we even have a home theater room. We put in the latest exercise equipment and a demonstration kitchen, where we have classes.

Tony Rossi

We're trying to mobilize much the same audience. But instead of getting people to go to the theater, we're telling them the film will be there if they go to church.

Peter Lalonde

We are interested in putting on great theater and building a stronger group. Do not let a lack of experience hold you back. We'll teach you. Whether you want to be on stage or behind the scenes, we'd love to have you!

Joyce Hendricks

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.

Gail Godwin

We contacted the theater in North Bergen and they were very interested. We're trying to get it spread around New Jersey as much as possible. The people I've spoken to said that they loved the movie. I think there was the interest because of the candidates, but also because it's New Jersey. It's something they can relate to.

John Sikes

I had done two albums with the Liquid Tension Experiment, and both were interesting compared to Dream Theater, because with those we didn't have the window or the parameters of what Dream Theater is.

Jordan Rudess

Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave.

Richard Lamm

[Many people in the theater business attended that first preview on Feb. 6, 1979.] A lot of them said it was too bad, but it wasn't going to work, ... And I was really disappointed that especially actors gave it no chance.

Len Cariou

In Mexico, theater is very underground, so if you're a theater actor it's very difficult to make a living. But it's also a very beautiful pathway to knowledge and to an open education.

Gael Garcia Bernal

In some ways I'm a pioneer. I know my limitations -- I can't deny them -- but I really have great parents who try to let me do as much as possible, and I've had people encourage me throughout my life, so I've never let it stop me, at least in theater.

Melissa Frame

If the sound is too loud it lacks aural specificity in the theater. You can't tell who's singing. And with that wall of sound, audiences who care about the words miss the roundness of the notes sung by a human voice or played on an acoustic instrument.

Steve Adler

A number of businesses promote the theater because the quality of life is just as important as their bottom line.

Norman Small

The administration is so invested in Iraq, it really doesn't have any other ... political capital to spend on other theaters, like the Palestinian-Israeli theater.

Fawaz Gerges

I always say it's like licking icing. You appreciate [Lloyd Webber's] music more when you look at the last 20 years on Broadway, and there aren't that many songs or Broadway hits anymore, the way there used to be. It's like seeing the history of musical theater laid out for you.

Alice Ripley

To anticipate ahead of time what [Daley's son, the current mayor] is going to think about the show would be a mistake. If we were considering that, we wouldn't be doing the right thing for theater. But I hope he'll find it exciting.

Stefan Brun

Strong, vibrant communities all have a theater present. You need the arts in a downtown to attract people and make the area a destination location.

Bill Hughes

It's been a long time since we've done something together. And since then our work has changed, so it will be interesting to see how it works now. Ira's convinced that radio is the dominant thing and that theater is dead. But I'm not so sure radio is doing so much better than theater.

Beau O'reilly

The Army guys were kind enough to give us their big theater they have there, and at the end of the rehearsals, we're going to do a show for all of the (soldiers) and their families, ... It's not open to the public. We're just doing anything we can do. Really, it's just any time you can give back to those guys who are out there fighting for our freedom, for God's sakes.

Richie Sambora

It'll look even better now for somebody at home than it ever did for anybody seeing it for the first time in the theater.

Andrew Stanton

This is everything I love about theater, from soup to nuts.

Michael Ritchie

I feel that the community wants a stadium theater. And if (the developers) aren't allowed to get the signage they feel is necessary in order for them to be successful in Grand Junction, I feel that they aren't going to do the deal.

Mark Mcpherson

It's our goal to win a Tony award for Best Regional Theater.

Joyce Gerber

Czech theater used to be very famous in the '60s. But at present, there is no knowledge of it abroad. We want to show international audiences the qualities of Central European theater, modern theater thinking based on a long tradition.

Lucie Kolouchová

When you think about musical theater, the influence of gays and lesbians is profound.

Jeff Buhrman

That's the catch 22 of commercial theater. You can't go forward with no theater, but we need to go forward so we're ready if there is one.

Kathleen Marshall

It is the theater God would have built if he had the money.

Henry Geldzahler

I like the charm and the life in the Fan - the street theater.

J. Collins

This year is, by common consent, the most political Fringe for a long time. It's not just theater. It's the comedians, dance, musical theater ? we've got musicals about the war on terror.

Paul Gudgin

I believe that my art gets across the point that I'm in this morality theater trying to help the underdog, and I'm speaking socially here, showing concern and making psychological and philosophical statements for the underdog.

Jeff Koons

Along the way, he enjoyed acting in community theater and performing in radio drama.

Kelly Burke

There's an enormous amount of ambition to take Cirque outside the theater to a wide variety of applications.

Rodney Landi

Passionate and committed to theater and concerned by the lack of public performance found in Taipei.

David Young

I think that people really seem to enjoy this Boone theater group. They're good at putting on an enjoyable and fun plays. They really interact with the crowd, and they're a fun group to work with.

Doug Yetman

[The Loews Astor, which closed in summer 2004, had been New York's largest single-screen movie theater. AEG Live put it through an extreme makeover.] We had to gut it, ... We had this tremendous expanse without poles, so the sightlines were insanely good and the acoustics were great. But we had to build the whole stage box.

Randy Phillips

David is divine, ... He's a master at examining and taking apart a script and putting it back together. He so loves the craft, and he's so positive and encouraging. This is a rarity, this theater... It's a family.

Tom Aldredge

The Busy Bee Cafe was a popular hangout, especially after the young people attended the Princess Theater movies, ... They would eat the delicious chili, Italian food and pies my mother made.

Ann Smith

[Going live evokes the immediacy of theater.] When you tell actors who have theater backgrounds that we're doing a live [TV] show, ... it's like total elation.

Jimmy Smits

We wanted to give (the audience) something they would laugh to and remember. It's just a fun night at the theater.

Bob Foster

The Weather Channel was in Covington, and they showed the old movie theater, and half of it was gone.

Scott Ward

I'm excited about the festival. This year is our biggest year yet, because this is the year we put our theater up in front of everyone.

Paul Flores

The New York theater community is a place I know my way around in with some certainty.

Terrence Mcnally

We were looking for new markets to expand to and I knew about the Bartlesville Community Center so we arranged something, ... It's a beautiful theater. I'm really happy for us to have our show here. And it will be the same show that we have performed in New York, so Bartlesville won't go away disappointed.

Joe Sears

That's not what we do. We're operating a theater like they do in New York. We're not a nonprofit. We're commercial. We make it or break it on ticket sales. We feel like we created the long-run (theatrical show) in San Diego.

Jill Mesaros

Viewing in a theater is the optimum experience. It needs to be preserved. ... But, at the end of the day, technology and viewers are going to tell us what they really want.

Aaron Howard

Nobody has done more -- and I include myself in that -- to develop the theater programs at the university.

Dick Welsbacher

Confident singers. This isn't professional theater, in that situation it's then and now, a bad note and you're gone. Here, we take into account nervousness and we give them more leeway. We're looking for potential.

Jason Bartosic

Being from the South, there isn't really a lot of great theater. You get musicals and Neil Simon plays-not that they're bad, but you can only take so much.

Wes Bentley

The big thing about the season is the festival. I'm excited because it's going to include many parts of the community, for example Donald Byrd's Spectrum Dance, and Oregon Ballet Theater.

Peter Boal

Charity in the theater begins and ends with those who have a play opening within a week of one's own.

Moss Hart

In the theater there are 1,500 cameras rolling at the same time - in the cinema, only one.

Orson Welles

It was very exciting when we went into the theater world to hear such good things about our Amanda.

Jack Mcconnell

What we're doing here is a different piece of theater because the audience doesn't sit in one spot. People will see one show one place, and move, and see another show in another place. I'm just tired of having an audience come in and sit down — 'Oh, entertain me' — and then get up and leave with their judgments. This is just a way to shake things up a little bit.

Mel Shapiro

Musical theater is a broad, big tent of an art form.

Kevin Mccollum

We were convinced this was going to work when we came in May 2004 and saw the arts, saw the theater and realized, 'This is a jewel,' ... Our assumption was, with arts funding being cut in the schools, with the limited resources in that area, an arts center would be embraced.

John North

Noam's no fool. He is wonderfully creative and entrepreneurial for his theater... He has that wonderfully typical Israeli nature that anything is possible it just takes diligence and fortitude and brains and he's got it all.

Tovah Feldshuh

That's it for the restaurant business. Of course, Ann will continue to run the theater.

David Wyatt

One day at the Standard Theater in Philadelphia, I looked onstage and I thought, 'They're having fun up there; I'd like to do something like that'.

Fayard Nicholas

These numbers show that voters are looking for more than hype and a couple of sound bites from a Senate candidate. They are looking for a credible, substantive and experienced alternative to Senator Clinton. This race is not going to be about good political theater.

Thomas Basile

When I found out she was going, I had to do something special for her. Because music is her love, it was a no-brainer. My dad, who loves gospel music, went to one of the shows at the Smith Family Theater and said it was great. I researched them and decided to call them one day and we went from there.

Amy Beheler

When I arrived, I felt we were trying to fit family programs into our theaters whenever there was time. My feeling was that we shouldn't have to fit them into other theaters. They should have a theater of their own.

Michael M. Kaiser