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"In wrestling, theater is the goal, at some level, and everybody knows it who goes into those arenas, who watches it."
Dr. Andrew Huberman
"Making black people like slave owners was hilarious, but aside from that, he integrated hip hop into Broadway."
"My idea of a vacation is booking 9 to 12 nights in New York City and then seeing 16 to 18 shows."
"It was thought-provoking, it was moving, the music was good, the acting was superb, well staged, well presented, really good performances."
"When people say, 'Are you scared of being typecast?' My answer was, 'I'm from the theater, darling.'"
"That was super fun, like probably the most immersive theater experience I've ever been in."
"Welcome to my theater tonight I want to give you a completely new way of thinking about one of the most incendiary issues of our time."
"Acting has been around since the 6th century, but for an ancient art form, the theater world is just acknowledging the need to choreograph love scenes safely."
"We need to have a standardized process to handle intimacy just like we do with stage combat, with stunts, with dance choreography."
"You can actually see the Broadway show 'Greece' performed live on board the ship. It's pretty darn cool, all things considered."
"A great theatrical performance informs us how to perceive and act, which is a vital thing to be informed about."
"I finally fulfilled a childhood dream of mine. I opened up my very own theater."
"I love the theater, and I loved acting. Being here in a rich community of creative people is invigorating."
"Pinter is able to make you feel that pain, to feel its sadness, to feel the loss, to feel the grief, to feel the cruelty, but also in moments, to find it absurd and funny."
"Ricky, is like I think I finally understand plays."
"The Kraken The New York Times says the fight choreography and what I had presumed would be a violence-less play is really stunning."
"The theater is my home. I won't be fucked with here."
"The pleasure is not the scene... the pleasure was the acting."
"The staging, just the lighting, everything about Hadestown is just phenomenal."
"Roxy was flying high, baby! She walked into that Helen Willis role and stole the show."
"To be fair, Evangelical groups were vehemently against theater for this reason exactly, and yet the popularity of theater persisted in the masses."
"Theater and politics, as was true during the reign of Nero, have merged and become interchangeable."
"It's not as melodic as other songs in Gypsy, but what pushes 'Rose's Turn' over the edge isn't necessarily the musical quality, but the emotional work that needs to go into the performance."
"Hades Town is an absolutely transcendent theatrical experience."
"It replicates the same pressures and the same stress and anxiety related with live theater performances in a [__] uncanny way."
"People were ready to experience Rebecca on the Great White Way."
"I'm going to see the show Wicked tonight so I'm super super excited!"
"With the legendary Bob Fosse at the helm, the choreography cannot go wrong."
"Albus and Scorpius's story is the heart of the play."
"The theater was set up to incorporate special effects into their performances like trap doors and overhead rigging."
"It's that thing of like, you know, theater acting... you're building this character through rehearsal as much as possible until you're ready to go out on stage."
"The experience of watching a great play means that, you know, we sometimes understand a little more about why we're alive."
"Actors in Italy are embracing a new kind of performance stage."
"What's special about Dear Evan Hansen is that it's an original story."
"The Phantom of the Opera aesthetic is gorgeous."
"I cried the very first time I saw the show and I still cry like a baby."
"It was magical, the people are all the same, it's the same people you did theater with when you're a kid."
"London's West End, also known as Theatreland, is particularly well known."
"My Broadway debut was in 199-(mumbles), and I did 'The Tempest' starring Patrick Stewart."
"We're doing Equity, the shirts come off for everybody. Josh start taking your shirt off, everybody should be topless by the end of the show, that's how we know it's great."
"Broadway has been inching towards weirdness for quite some time with unique subject matter unexpected musical styles for a Broadway production and increasingly less traditional stories."
"That sounded like he's trying to sell us on coming back into the theater."
"Act One: Where challenges emerge, but connections falter."
"In theater, you have to project a lot so the person in the last row can hear you, see you, feel you. Here I just felt comfortable."
"The friendships formed in theater last a lifetime."
"Hamilton is set hundreds and hundreds of years ago, but I kept seeing our times' topical issues."
"I thought it was intriguing theater I thought Austria put up a really good fight if they'd just taken their chances they could have won it."
"If they do Cats again, it should be from the point of view of the beautiful ghosts."
"The Puppeteer had a good point, honestly. He had their careers in mind."
"I'm letting you know that I'm still in the play but that's just my opinion."
"He won the Tony for this. He morphed this role."
"Hamilton is a cultural movement in American theater."
"Hamilton traces the story of Alexander Hamilton's life from being raised as an orphan in the Caribbean to his death in 1804."
"It's a show about a politician that is also about policy."
"Hamilton presented a bold statement about diversity and the nature of contemporary America."
"His intervention is to really include people of color on the American stage."
"I'm so ready for this. It's gonna be the best play yet."
"Tallulah is not the first lady of the theater; she's the theater's first personality."
"Disney Wish to premiere two new stage shows: 'Seize the Adventure' and 'The Little Mermaid.'"
"I have too much dignity for myself and my morals to wear something that was stolen."
"She's just so layered and complex and takes this power on stage which is so unusual for Shakespeare characters."
"I knew when I read the script it was different and it was special."
"That's why I got Gus back so, in some karmic way, for everything he did, if I didn't do that play at that moment, you know, and have my son visit me at that moment, that piece of evidence that I used, I never would have won."
"It's like I love this time, there's my favorite part of the play."
"I think the stage is always what I'd planned to do."
"You can have boys playing girls, you can have girls playing boys, like it doesn't matter."
"This to me was the best theatrical experience that I had in 2022."
"I think the theater is actually, you know, the one true church."
"It's always a fun experience to be there in a theatre... with the movie playing on the big screen."
"I just fell in love with everything related to theater. It turned out that I can reveal myself in something that I had never even thought about before."
"It's rad, it's like it's theater you know, it's a proper theater but it has Club feel."
"I never thought I would make it to Broadway."
"I try to make the theater a place where I am free."
"The next big goal for me is I want to do a West End show."
"That was one of the best times in the theater just I was laughing I couldn't stop laughing sometimes and then the action and everything I mean it was a home run for me as far as an MCU entry with Thor."
"That's a 400-year-old play about a young man who has mental health issues... it's magical to me."
"I've worn this shirt a couple of times, I did theater there but I tell this to everyone that asks I learned more in a year in LA acting-wise than I did in four years of theater at college."
"Disney has realized that they can separate this into a broadway theater."
"In the realms of political theater, there's rarely been a more direct and telling confrontation than the one brewing between President Trump and Biden."
"Division of interpretations when it comes to Midsummer's ending."
"Costumes are missing, they're gone, they're not in the closet."
"I always find the theater is the best way to clarify things."
"Theater is not a safe space. It's somewhere where you go to be challenged."
"I was supposed to be the lead... but you're white."
"Winter Soldier from Rumble says you have not seen diversity in Mean Girls until you have seen the stage play."
"Patty Duke’s breakout role came as a teenager when she was cast as Helen Keller in the Broadway play, The Miracle Worker."
"Mary Jane continues pursuing her dreams of becoming an actress and eventually lands the leading role in a play titled 'The Importance of Being Earnest'."
"A relentless revolutionary assault on the conventions of bourgeois drama."
"This hilarious new musical flips the script on the greatest love story ever told."
"I mean, especially I'd also suggest, I say, 'What did I miss?' as the second act opener." - Eric
"Her passing is a significant loss to the world of theater and feminist literature, but her Legacy will continue to inspire future generations of playwrights and activists."
"Felt like doing a half hour show was like doing great repertory theater we're the same group of people acting different situations out and now."
"I regard the theater as an operation with the scalpel. I think movie acting is an operation with a laser."
"It was like a magic that just shot across the footlights."
"It's time for us, the fans of theater actors and performers, to use our voices and the power that we have in the best way that we can to make a change."
"Her extraordinary journey from a supportive wife and mother to a Tony-winning actress continues to inspire generations of women in theater and beyond." - Carlin Glenn
"You are watching panic. You should not imagine that the theater that we have all this under control is anything other than the desperate behavior of people who precisely have nothing under control."
"So much of DC is political theater... knowing that a lot of this is for show... and kind of digging to see what's really behind it."
"The show must go on... Even a blackout couldn't stop Broadway."
"You gotta love Broadway, huh? Think about it, that's real talent."
"I've started writing a play. When it's finished I want the two of you to play the leading roles."
"I'm really happy that I came and saw this in the theater."
"What I love about this movie is that it feels like a movie like you know it's like a film where you can go see in theaters."
"Anyone who thinks they aren't racist hasn't seen Avenue Q."
"Some of the casting directors in LA, you say 'I'm doing a play with Jack Lemmon,' 'No, I'm not going to go, I know Jack's work,' it's like, 'Yeah, but you don't know mine.'"
"Let the show go on. There's always a need for fresh faces."
"The amount of work that they put in if you really look at the acting scene in Nepal...for one play they gotta do that like hundreds of times so that when the audience is there, you cannot mess up. Yeah, you gotta remember all your lines."
"It comes down to having a good time in the theater, which is what we're all trying to go back and do."
"Theater has the power to bring in new young audiences."
"It's a fun, beautiful, amazing show that I do recommend seeing."
"The theater is where it began for all of us."
"It's one of the best Theater shows Royal has ever done."
"Everyone leaves with their spirits still high, their hearts racing, no matter how many times they see the play."
"That's what makes theater feel so magical sometimes."
"It's not just the film that's haunted, but the entire theater, a modern gothic cathedral whose walls turn against its occupants. In turn, the people tear it all down."
"I love live theater, I get full body chills every time."
"A starting soon screen is similar to when you go see a play at a theater and the curtains are closed on the stage while the audience takes their seats."
"You know, there's so many of us in the field right now that are living because of theater."
"The Phantom of the Opera is about a hideously ugly monster that hides backstage."
"It all began the moment an ordinary little guy fell in love with the theater."
"Dreams are theaters for our mind to run wild."
"Being in Chitty as a kid was such an amazing experience."
"Every child in that show was just having the best time."
"The star of the show is the title character, it's the car."
"Theater people have a way of telling stories."
"The oldest greek drama was only two characters on stage."
"I am not in 'Cursed Child'. I haven't actually seen it."
"So I'm so excited to kick it off in this beautiful little theater there."
"I haven't laughed this much in the theater all year."
"the characters in Samuel Beckett's 1953 play Waiting for Godot voted the most significant English language play of the 20th century in a British poll in 1990 are usually portrayed wearing bowler hats"
"That is ridiculous in my opinion, that is the best theater show in Walt Disney World."
"...assert why I feel that Spider-Man turn off the dark should still be celebrated today as another worthy piece of Spider-Man's richly varied history."
"We also have a live show at the Colonial Theater coming up."
"A good play is like a play you don't realize you're watching."
"A play, whether good or bad, is a bit of experience."
"Our mystery drama 'The Cornstarch Killer' was written especially for the mystery theater by Sam Dan."
"The best a theater can be, is when that fourth wall drops."
"I saw your play, I'd love to direct it for my University or something would you mind?"
"It's the same at the curtain call. We come on after Godard and do a little bit of a dance."
"Waiting for Godot and No Man's Land are two of the finest evenings or matinees anyone will ever spend in the theater."
"Professional wrestling is a form of theater not so unlike Shakespearean theater."
"There's something about going into a room, closing the doors, and sharing an hour, two hours, three hours with another few hundred people that is human. It's humanity."
"What happens when we lose that connection towards... Live Theater?"
"Oppenheimer shot me into the HEAVENS.. I truly have never in my entire life left a theatre feeling the way I did when I finished Oppy."
"Let's see. At the start of the play, you get locked in a cupboard by the big bad wolf. Then right at the end of the play, you are rescued by the hunter and you say 'Thank you'."
"Ancient drama at its best, ladies and gentlemen."
"It's exciting, isn't it? I've never been to the theater before."
"The north remembers, Lord Davos. The north remembers, and the mummer's farce is almost done."
"La Boheme was the basis for which 1996 Tony award-winning Broadway musical? 'Rent.'"
"If you have not watched Theater Camp, you should watch Theater Camp."
"Wicked officially opened on October 30, 2003."
"Wicked quickly gained a devoted following, especially amongst younger theater-goers."
"The 2004 Tony Award goes to... Jeff Witte."
"It almost reminded me super ridiculous of like a murder mystery play where like things happen around you and you get to just kind of enjoy it, like with it being all on the train, it kind of felt like."
"'But for now, I'm going to leave you because I'm actually going to go see... Back to the Future: The Musical.'"
"Shakespeare was writing very much conscious of those who would put the productions on in the theater of their mind."
"To break a leg means I hope you get to the end of the play where you get to bow."
"At this point, John Gotti Junior would be around forty-five years old, but this looks like a high school play is putting on a cheap production of Goodfellas."
"Social media has definitely helped pull musical theater... out of the Shadows."
"Musical theater is having its moment in the spotlight."
"It's hats the musical! We're an army of people with hats!"
"The use of the stage and lighting enhances the emotional vulnerability of the characters."
"for the Memories for the experience and for the play itself I'm putting steel Magnolia's top tier that was like such a good theater experience for me for us for everyone involved."
"The theater, because it's an absolute stunner!"
"I am way more optimistic about theater than America."
"I've always had a great urge to go on the stage, but no one's ever encouraged me before."
"Seeing this show is what made me fall in love with Broadway."
"In terms of pure wrestling theater, it doesn't get much better than this."
"Les Misérables is one of my favorite shows of all time."
"It's hard to argue against the fact that the Avenger is one of the most hilarious plays of all time, but not for the reasons the church wanted."
"... it creates this tension that you normally don't get. Or I guess it gives you the tension you would have if you didn't know the show already because everyone knows Romeo and Juliet so this adds the tension back into the original viewing of this play."
"... I think it's meant to just be so Theater history back in the day, uh, yeah while yes you would see plays in, you know, theaters and actual like uh, maybe like the row seat or something like that there were also traveling performers who rolled up trogs, each electrox."
"A terribly celebrated old actor manager like me hires a starving young writer like you to invent a plot to murder his wife."
"Wallace was a phenomenal athlete and an outdoorsman and had grown up in a family who Bickley was always involved in the theater."
"It's been a dream of mine to do that theater."
"I seriously wish Wolf Walkers had been put in theaters."
"I walked out of the theater in a great mood."
"It was the most enjoyable kick-ass theater experience that I have ever had in my life."
"Every time there was a huge fanservice moment, the theater just erupted."
"Big corporate money to Broadway that had never been there before."
"The energy in that theater was so amazing."
"A rare thing indeed, and this year we were treated to the UK premiere of not one, but two of them. This is a show that within a few years I think we will come to recognize as being incredibly groundbreaking and pushing the medium forwards in a very important powerful way."
"Welcome back to my stagey YouTube channel, my name is Mickey Joe and I am obsessed with all things theater."
"I enjoyed this. I saw this in the theater actually and I remember actually really enjoying it in the theater."
"This perfect trio of performers in its cast, a wonderful, wonderful piece of theater. Keep an eye out for this one moving forwards. This is not the last you've seen of this play."
"The seats are bigger, there's not like 4,000 people in the theater, there's only maybe 200 max seats."
"What makes Trail to Oregon so significant in the journey of Star Kid is its fearless experimentation."
"The theater screen is the headline feature of the 7 Series."
"The theater screen is definitely the highlight of the 7 Series."
"I'm right back to being a ten-year-old kid belting out 'Beggar's Opera' from the stage at my school. At the end of the day, the spirit of the story, the camaraderie of the cast and crew got us through. It's an honor to be part of it."
"Wow, I fell in love with the theater."
"This is the kind of film that I would want at like an actual theater. It would be guy to see this movie at like a midnight screening."
"Neil Austin's lighting deserving of a mention with its brilliant pools of light streaming in from the curtained windows."
"Elay Yates in her West End debut delivering an impressively physical performance as the maybe possessed maybe lying Janet."
"Plays are like a beautiful movie. There's a beginning and there's an end."
"You can't get much more theatrical than stage blood."
"Not to go to the theater is like making one's toilet without a mirror."
"It's yet another opportunity to be reminded of the incredible power of theater."
"It's like a movie for the theater."
"I have been loving my journey through Epic the Musical."