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I have ambitions to do a Broadway record one of these days and get in the studio with like, a real orchestra. I'm a big musical theatre geek.
I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone.
I fear that I won't work in the theatre again. I'm sad about that. But I won't retire.
I've been asked a lot why didn't 'Ruined' go to Broadway. It was the most successful play that Manhattan Theatre Club has ever had in that particular space, and yet we couldn't find a home on Broadway.
The theatre should reflect America as it's lived in today. And that is a multicultural America.
There's no question about it: the best theatre is collaboration. The best anything is collaboration.
I've played every comedy club and every theatre across the country for the last 25 years and seen a lot of audience members from different ethnic persuasions.
I have a major love for musical theatre, including a lot of stuff I don't get to do very often.
When I was 12, I played Dorothy in my community theatre production of 'The Wizard of Oz,' and it was very critically hailed by my school paper!
I teach a lot of young musical theatre actors, and I notice that a lot of them say that they have a harder time connecting the classic repertoire.
It is hard to get good actors who also do television, ads and films. Theatre requires six weeks of rehearsal for a play.
There is so much freedom I enjoy in theatre. In films, the roles are limited.
I started doing amateur theatre and played Rosa Parks at the age of 12 or 13. At 16, I decided it was what I wanted to do.
For my first acting job I played the role of Ensign Pulver in 'Mr. Roberts' at the Manitoba Theatre Centre.
From kings to groundlings, Shakespeare made his work profound for everybody. That is how it should be. There is no hierarchy in theatre. It makes everyone part of a collective.
The theatre has always been voraciously omnivorous. Dramatists have always raided every medium to find grist to their mill: myths, folk tales, newspapers, novels, films, works of art of all kinds.
The point of theatre is transformation: to make an extraordinary event out of ordinary material right in front of an audience's eyes. Where the germ of the idea came from is pretty much irrelevant. What matters to every theatre maker I know is speaking clearly to the audience 'right now.'
I was doing TV work, theatre work, and some film work in the Philippines when I left.
I'd love to do just straight theatre. I'd love to do film and television, too.
These days, gun violence can strike anywhere, from a church hall in Charleston to a movie theatre or a Planned Parenthood office in Colorado. But our response to it depends on whether that violence is understood to be terrorism.
I'm just attracted to good material and great characters and that can come in any form, whether it's television or film or a theatre piece.
I'm ready for theatre. I'm ready for dramas, period stuff, films. I want to achieve everything.
After high school, I went to the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point for a year, and I studied musical theatre. By that point, I was like, 'This is what I want to do.'
I loved theatre and film when I was growing up in Harpenden, Hertfordshire. My mum's a reflexologist and my dad's a corporate financier.
I respect the system out there in Hollywood, I really do, but I'm very intent on art versus commerce. I want to do it all - film, TV and theatre - if it's the right job.
The ending is really the most important part of the movie. If the first hour and 20 minutes is terrific and the last ten minutes stinks, everybody walks out of the theatre and says: 'That was a lousy movie!'
A lot of my training is in classical theatre; I've done a lot of classical plays in New York and also at the Guthrie and here and there across the country.
I'm a theatre doll, and I've always - since I'm out of school - have always been on stage.
I'm a pro! No, what I mean is I have performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company in England. I have been all over the place. I have studied theatre for seven years.
I have a dialect myself; it's more pronounced, because I have studied theatre and been in England. It's half-British, half-Indian.
I went to the University/Resident Theatre Association auditions. Deans come and watch you in this theater. You have three minutes, and you have to do two contrasting monologues - at that time, this is 2003 - one classical and one contemporary.
Whenever I have to work on my skills or add to my craft, I do theatre. It's one place where I can learn a lot as an actor.
A lot of my background is in theatre, so when you're on location, and the wind is really blowing, it's raining, and you've got mud all over you, it really keeps you on your toes.
My experiences in film and theatre in the States have been much more rigorous-in England there's an environment of, Let's try this.
Theatre is immediate, it's alive, you're there with the audience, it can't be done again and again and again and again, it's organic.
I was never a hugely successful theatre designer. I painted a lot of scenery and did the lighting, and my lighting business grew out of that.
From there, I tried out for a community theatre play, joined an improv group... it all started opening up.
While I was in Astana, a ballet master from St. Petersburg's Mariinsky Theatre staged a performance of 'Giselle' in the opera hall. It was one of only a few performances to grace Astana's concert spaces in many weeks, and tickets were impossible to come by.
Theatre is an exclusive place that tends to be dominated by white men, or dying white men.
I figured as I got older, the good roles for women would be in the theatre. So 15 years ago I started building a Broadway career to try and develop the chops to be accepted as a great theatrical actress.
One of my first memories is running up and down the theatre at Wakefield Opera House.
I'd rather do theatre and British films than move to L.A. in hopes of getting small roles in American films.
In Tamil Nadu, watching a film on a festival is a part of our culture. People prefer going to a theatre rather than bursting crackers at home.
I have a camp fascination with all things musical theatre - I've even got the box set of 'Britannia High.'
The great thing about theatre is that the performance develops over the run - it changes each time.
I love the stage, I love the process of acting in theatre, but unfortunately, it doesn't pay the bills.
I think I've had an interesting life. I've done films, TV, theatre and got married. I don't have any regrets.
I like simple things. I like to sneak in the theatre and watch movies. I'm a movie buff.
I got into theatre very early, so yes I was surrounded by gay people quite early and frequently.
I grew up in Los Angeles, and my first musical theatre experiences were at the Music Center in downtown L.A.
I wound up graduating from the Los Angeles County School for the Arts as a theatre major and then was honored to be accepted into Carnegie Mellon's Musical Theatre program.
I'm interested in working with groups of actors to tell complicated stories about what's happening to people, and that's because I came out of the theatre where I worked in ensembles, and I really loved that.
The bottom line is we go to theatre to vicariously spend time with really intense characters.
If I'm in theatre, cinema doesn't even cross my mind. Similarly when I'm making a film, theatre doesn't cross my mind.
Film has become a very passive experience, but with theatre, there is a contract made with the audience, where they participate. That's why my parents' puppet theatre was such a special place - people used their imaginations. It's a muscle that needs using.
Be it 120 frames or 24 frames or film or theatre, you're trying to be a fully formed human being and trying to be honest.
My experience with the National Theatre in Kracow often involved many changes of storyline and character. This was particularly useful when working with a director such as Pawel Pawlikowski who is quite intuitive and demands flexibility in an actor.
In theatre, I get comedy or nice lead roles. I don't understand a grey or negative role.
I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting.
At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.
We talk about theatre museums filled with old costumes and things. What we also need is a theatre museum of the old routines on videotape. We are only the custodians of those techniques, and they should be preserved.
Whether it's Shakespeare or Moliere, irony is a key component in the construction of theatre. A script would be pretty bad if it was devoid of irony.
I did an A Level in Theatre Studies and had a really inspirational teacher, and then I just went on to university.
I did my New York debut at 21. It was 'On the Town' at the George Gershwin Theatre. New York is my artistic home.
I had some experience writing collaboratively when I wrote for the theatre.
I did commercials and voice-overs as a kid, and it just lead to musical theatre opportunities.
Even if I'm in a movie theatre, I'll touch up an hour into the film because I know I could be a little shiny.
I don't think people should be priced out of going to the theatre... But we have to recognise that it is a show business.
It seems to me, in this culture, you need to have a subsidy to do theatre, not that I put theatre above anything else.
I started in theatre. I was at Cleveland and I went to London for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth.
Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.
Part of the reason I fell in love with cricket was watching fast bowlers. They provide a sense of theatre with dramatic, ferocious spells and that applies as much in one-day cricket as in Tests.
It's been in my musical DNA since I was a little kid. I think musical theatre has really influenced everything I've done.
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