“I first did stand-up when I was 17, and then I passed out fliers for a comedy club (in New York City) and I got onstage whenever I could. And musical theater went out the window as soon as I started doing stand-up.” FirstsCitiesComedyNew YorkWindowTheaterMusicalClubsNew York CityMusical TheaterComedy Clubs Author:Sarah Silverman
“I produced a play in New York that got nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award for Best American Play.The play is called Stalking The Bogeyman. It was a story on This American Life, and my former roommate is the artistic director of the New York Repertory Theater. He heard the NPR show, contacted them, and essentially - shortest synopsis ever, like I'm the Cablevision guide button - it's the true story of a man stalking and plotting to kill the man who raped him when he was seven. It's by a brilliant reporter named David Holthouse.” MenPlayStoriesShowsHeardNew YorkHe ManDirectorsTheaterCriticsSevenGuidesBrilliantCirclesFormerArtisticAwardsButtonsReportersStalkingTrue StoryAmerican LifeRoommateNprBest AmericanSynopsis Author:Adam Richman
“There was a kind of cultural life in New York that wasn't as solidified as it is now, it wasn't as money-driven. If you look at the size of the successful art galleries compared to the size of galleries now - there was no such thing as the Gagosian Gallery or Pace Gallery. But it was a time when magazines were a vital part of American life, and Esquire gave me a free pass to every world - I could get to the art world, the theater world, the movie world. It allowed you to roam through the cultural life of New York City.” IfsWorldLooksKindArtCitiesSuccessfulNew YorkTheaterSizeDrivenMagazinesNew York CityPaceGalleryAmerican LifeArt WorldArt Galleries Author:Robert Benton
“My father went to college for drama in Pittsburgh, and so did my mother, and then my mother was a steadily working New York theater actress. They kind of quit when I was born. They did that for, like, 10 years before they had kids and then I was born and they were not into that lifestyle for kids.” YearsKindKidsMotherFatherBornNew YorkCollegeDramaTheaterActressesQuittingLifestylePittsburgh Author:Ethan Suplee
“My return to the theater in New York was so specific. I didn't want it to be about leveraging my exposure or my fame, so the first show I did in New York was an ensemble piece at an Off-Broadway theater, and I wanted to make sure that it was just about the play and about the experience.” WantFirstsPlayShowsWantedPiecesNew YorkReturnFameTheaterBroadwayExposureEnsemble Author:Zachary Quinto
“I went to New York out of college, and in my day, we were told that was the way you became a good actor. You don't go to Hollywood, you go straight to New York and work in the theater. So that's what most of the people I knew did.” PeopleWayActorsNew YorkCollegeHollywoodTheaterGood Actors Author:Brent Spiner
“I did a great show Off-Broadway called Leave It To Beaver Is Dead that was at the Public Theater in New York. It was written by Des McAnuff, who's an illustrious director now, and it starred... Well, I was in it, Mandy Patinkin, Dianne Wiest, Saul Rubinek, and Maury Chaykin. It was an amazing show. But it was definitely ahead of its time, and people didn't quite get it.” PeopleWellsShowsWrittenNew YorkDirectorsTheaterBroadwayShowing OffBeaversMaury Author:Brent Spiner
“I grew up in the time just when cassettes were waning and CDs were growing. And so mix tapes - and not mix CDs - mix tapes were an important part of the friendship and mating rituals of New York adolescents. If you were a girl and I wanted you - to show you I like you, I would make you a 90-minute cassette wherein I would show off my tastes. I would play you a musical theater song next to a hip-hop song next to an oldie next to some pop song you maybe never heard, also subliminally telling you how much I like you with all these songs.” IfsImportantPlayShowsWantedSongGirlNextGrowingHeardMinutesNew YorkLike YouGrewTasteGrew UpTheaterMusicalHip HopPopsHipsHopsRitualTapeCdsShowing OffI Like YouPop SongMatingMusical TheaterCassettesHip Hop Song Author:Lin-Manuel Miranda
“I love the theater, and I did tons of theater before I ever did anything in front of the camera, but I haven't done anything in New York in a while, and I really, really want to. I've been offered a few things, but it's got to be something that works, because it's so disruptive to the family that it's got to be something that I cannot turn down.” WantDoneTurnsFrontsHavensNew YorkTheaterCamerasDisruptive Author:Jean Smart
“I imagined myself living in New York in some sort of open, large but sparse studio apartment with a lot of blond wood and a futon on the floor and a bubbling samovar of tea in the background and a big beard - living alone but with my beard - and doing theater. That's what I thought my life would be.” BigsWould BeNew YorkTheaterStudiosWoodsBackgroundsTeaApartmentBeardLiving AloneFutons Author:Stephen Colbert
“Chicago theater vs. New York theater. There's just nothing to say about it really. If you've seen Chicago theater, you know that the work is true to what is there on the page. It's not trying to present itself with some sort of flashy, concept-based thing. It's about the work, and it's about the acting you're about to watch. So acting-based theater feels like it was born there to me.” IfsKnowsFeelsTryingBornActingWatchesNew YorkPagesConceptsTheaterChicagoFlashy Author:Terry Kinney
“When I was about seven, I started touring the globe as part of New York's La MaMa theater company - without my parents!” ParentCompanyNew YorkTheaterSevenGlobesTouringMama Author:Diane Lane
“I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.” MayEndsSeemsLinesNew YorkSeriousDiedTheaterLifetimeAbsurd Author:Arthur Miller
“One of the things that's great about New York is that it is not a one-industry town. It has education, academia, the service industry, arts, publishing, theater, politics, fashion, finance, as well as movie-making.” WellsArtFashionNew YorkIndustryTheaterTownsFinancePublishingAcademiaMovie MakingService Industry Author:Sarah Jessica Parker
“My mother had been an actress and we came from that world in New York, the theater world and the downtown sort of theater scene, and so I guess we didn't really have what you'd call like a Hollywood kind of life at all.” WorldKindMotherNew YorkSceneHollywoodTheaterActressesDowntown Author:Martha Plimpton
“Sport is where an entire life can be compressed into a few hours, where the emotions of a lifetime can be felt on an acre or two of ground, where a person can suffer and die and rise again on six miles of trails through a New York City park. Sport is a theater where sinner can turn saint and a common man become an uncommon hero, where the past and the future can fuse with the present. Sport is singularly able to give us peak experiences where we feel completely one with the world and transcend all conflicts as we finally become our own potential.” MenWorldGivingFeelsPersonsTwoAblePastSufferingDiesTurnsFeltSportsHoursCommonEmotionCitiesNew YorkHeroConflictSixTheaterLifetimeSaintMilesParksSinnerMotivational SportsNew York CityTrailsInspirational SportsUncommonCommon ManAcresFuseShort SportsFunny Inspirational SportsPeak ExperiencesCity Parks Author:George A. Sheehan
“Every person on the streets of New York is a type. The city is one big theater where everyone is on display.” PersonsBigsCitiesStreetsNew YorkTypeTheaterDisplay Book:Growing (Up) at 37 Source: Growing (Up) at 37
“What I'd really like to do is do a film or two a year and then do theater in New York the rest of the year.” YearsTwoFilmNew YorkTheater Author:Piper Perabo
“I went to a college in New York called New Paltz. I studied theater there for four years. I also studied privately in NYC with a teacher named Robert X. Modica.” YearsTeacherFourNew YorkCollegeTheaterFour YearsNyc Author:Aida Turturro
“I did theater at Carnegie, and in Pittsburgh and New York.” New YorkTheaterPittsburghCarnegie Author:Laura San Giacomo
“I did a play called 'On Golden Pond' in a dinner theater in Maine and then went to New York for a talent competition having put together a three-man juggling routine and some one-liners and I got myself an agent from that” MenPlayTogetherThreeTalentNew YorkTheaterCompetitionDinnerGoldenAgentsRoutinePondsOne LinerMaineJuggling Author:Patrick Dempsey
“I started out doing theater and a soap in New York and that's... sort of what I got stuck in. I was blessed enough to have long runs, and it's sort of hard sometimes then to get out.” LongSometimesHardEnoughRunningNew YorkTheaterBlessedStuckLong RunsSoap Author:Susan Sullivan
“I moved to New York to do theater, and I got cast in a play that was funny, and then I was the funny guy. I did a movie that was funny, and then I was the funny guy.” PlayGuyNew YorkTheaterMovedCastsFunny Guy Author:Steve Zahn
“I happen to love working in cinema, but the theater is always there... you know, and I would never shut the door on it. Even though it's been quite a bit of time since I've done a play, last one was in New York.” KnowsLoveDonePlayHappensLastsBitsDoorsNew YorkTheaterCinema Author:Michael York
“I moved to LA and decided to do films and television, mainly because the theater in New York is totally dead.” FilmNew YorkTelevisionDecidedTheaterMovedFilm And Television Author:Shirley Knight
“When I was in New York after I left the Army, I studied for two years at the American Theater Wing, studied acting, which involved dance and fencing and speech classes and history of theater, all that.” InspirationalYearsTwoLeftActingClassNew YorkInvolvedSpeechArmyTheaterWingsDanceTwo YearsFencing Author:James Earl Jones
“At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fantastic way of thinking of theater in new ways.” ThinkingWayInspirationalArtSchoolFunnyNew YorkDegreesTheaterFantasticVisualsNew WaysGraduationWay Of ThinkingVisual Art Author:Laurie Anderson