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If you're in rock 'n' roll, you're not supposed to admit to liking theatre stuff, but I'm a big theatregoer.
The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
I came from the theatre, which had given me opportunities in television as well as a film adaptation of my second play 'Daddy's Dyin'... Who's Got The Will?' for MGM.
I treasure the dark hours in a theatre. But I don't think that, if a film does not reach the theatre, it is, therefore, not a film.
The club shows are really intense and powerful, but for a shorter time, and the audiences are in close proximity than when I'm performing at The Palace Theatre.
I was the class clown in school, and I was also a child actor - not on television, but in the theatre.
If these theatres didn't exist, the tradition of British theatre would cease to exist.
I've been an actor for 14 years now and a lot of that time was spent in theatre and television. Then I moved to L.A. to try and build upon that and it's starting to pay off!
At 17, I became a member of the Boston Repertory Theatre. I had an opportunity pretty quickly and performed with the theater for six years.
If the purpose of the stumpy little NFT theatre under Waterloo Bridge is not to acquaint young audiences with Ozu, with Ophuels, with D. W. Griffith and with Agnes Varda, then what exactly does it exist for?
Theatre is a bastard form. I'm always proud of that. That's what makes it taste of life.
A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington.
The first horror film I remember seeing in the theatre was Halloween and from the first scene when the kid puts on the mask and it is his POV, I was hooked.
Telly and films has been my thing, not necessarily by choice, and if the right piece of theatre came along, I would jump at it.
A theatre, a literature, an artistic expression that does not speak for its own time has no relevance.
I've come to realise that being on 'Strictly' is like being in another theatre company and performing a live production.
I wrote my first play when I was nine. It was performed at Hampstead Theatre.
What I love about working on 'Younger' is that it combines some of my favorite elements of both theatre and film.
Got a degree in acting and actually double majored in musical theatre. And then I came straight to New York and started working.
I'm always keeping an eye out for a period piece. I was trained in theatre, so most of the things we did were classical - Shakespeare, Moliere, and Chekhov.
Theatre has no national identity. It is something for the world, whether it is Irish, English, or French.
Neil and I are most thrilled that we were able to bring musical theatre to the enormous audience that 'The Sound of Music' reached.
More often than not, theatre critics bubble with enthusiasm about plays that are, when all is said and done, really pretty average.
Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it.
When I'm doing TV, I miss theatre, and when I'm doing theatre, I miss being in front of the camera.
I had worked in this New York theatre company for my first eight or nine years out of college, acting and directing there, and I'd begun to write a little bit.
Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can.
I did loads of student films and fringe theatre. I worked for free a lot.
Yeah, well I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre and that's really where my training is. As an actor, that's my training.
I started in theatre when I was 13 or 14 years old and did a lot of theatre until my early thirties. Off-Broadway stuff - off-off-off-off-Broadway stuff - and I do love it.
I think film and television are really a director's medium, whereas theatre is the actor's medium.
I find the theatre faintly embarrassing for the actors performing on stage. It seems rather showy-off in an undignified way.
I was in a theater company in Houston, Theatre Under the Stars, and I was involved in about 10 of their productions.
I want to be able to follow the example of those extraordinary British actresses who move effortlessly from film to TV to theatre roles.
It was in England that I discovered theatre. I didn't have any money, but I would just eat yoghurt in order to get some money for tickets.
I was in eighth grade when I did my first Junior Theatre show. I was in 'Annie Get Your Gun' as a dancing Indian.
Hollywood was a detour, although my mother was an aristocrat from Tokyo who ran away to join the theatre, so acting is in my genes.
Edinburgh is my favourite city. We'll be doing a lot of children's theatre and galleries.
At age 14, coming to the U.S., all I knew was American Ballet Theatre, Baryshnikov, Nureyev, and some of the European companies. I barely knew anything about Balanchine.
The idea of doing theatre always terrified me because I get terrible stage fright. In the early 1970s I was offered a panto but the thought of going on stage was just too mortifying.
Film acting is so different from theatre acting, and TV is about letting things pay off and not winning every scene.
I almost failed drama at school. I hated it. It was all about the history of theatre.
I've done a lot of costume drama and theatre - the National Theatre and In fact, most of my work at the theatre, at the National Theatre anyway, was period.
It's a real leveller, you know, to do theatre at least once every two years.
I love Tim Minchin, Bill Bailey, and Hans Teeuwen, and I'm trying to synthesise elements of theatre into my show a little bit more.
Los Angeles doesn't have as vital a theatre as New York does. And that's something that really interests me.
I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays.
I tried to start a theatre in LA and failed miserably, but I was probably not meant to raise money.
Then I went off to Southern Methodist University in Dallas. They had a really wonderful theatre department.
I came to musical theatre from straight acting, and a lot of my friends have a real prejudice about musical theatre - one I probably shared.
One of the things I find very difficult about theatre is the repetition - that something can slide away from your original intentions.
Mum did a lot of commercial theatre and farces in the 1980s and '90s to make sure the school bills were paid.
I have mainly come from a theatre background, I did 'Oliver' here I played the Artful Dodger and I did 'The Sound of Music.'
I have done a lot of street theatre and plays and interacted with the public through radio and television.
I grew up doing theatre, where I was jumping in and out of plays, year round.
In Jaipur, I did almost everything from regional theatre to Shakespeare's plays. But when I shifted to Mumbai, I joined Anupam Kher's academy, Actor Prepares,to hone my acting skills.
I am from Jaipur where 'Ramlila' is a common theatre act. Though I was a thin, lanky fellow, I was always offered the role of Hanuman.
When I was young, my mum was part of a brilliant puppet theatre that toured all over the world.
After joining theatre, I started thinking that acting in films was not half as challenging as theatre.
Before acting offers came by, I dabbled in theatre under the aegis of the late thespian Dinesh Thakur. He was instrumental in honing my acting skills.
I'd quite like to try all sorts of different things, whether it be theatre, TV or film.
I spent two years in the military service, then I trudged around in repertory for quite a while. I somehow wound up at the National Theatre, though, and then I was definitely on my way.
When I started drama school, theatre was the main draw. I never had any movie star notions. Not that there were family ties to the theatre, either.
My first big show in Denver was 'Ruthless! The Musical.' I played Tina Denmark at the Theatre on Broadway. It was my big break!
Television theatre, as is implied in its name, should rely on adaptations of scripts written for the theatre.
On the one hand, young theatre directors were coming to television theatre, because they wanted to get closer to the cinema, despite having studied and worked for the theatre.
Nevertheless, in the theatre, and in the cinema, the contemporary reality of Poland has been represented only to a minuscule degree in the last 12 years.
The difference between a theatre with and without an audience is enormous. There is a palpable, critical energy created by the presence of the audience.
When I was at drama school I wanted to do classical theatre. It just so happened that I did a film when I came out and I moved that way.
I knew nothing about film at all. I suppose the biggest surprise is all these things. In the theatre we sort of do, I might do two or three key interviews and that would be it.
Well the least favourite question is the one that one's asked particularly about in Japan is what's the difference between theatre and cinema and I think, well, that's about eighty bucks.
The one thing I have always felt about musical theatre is that it is, to an extraordinary degree, about construction.
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