“Be reflective...and stay away from the theater as much as you can. Stay out of the theatrical world, out of its petty interests, its inbreeding tendencies, its stifling atmosphere, its corroding influence. Once become” WorldInterestInfluenceTheaterTendenciesAtmospherePettyTheatricalStiflingInbreeding Author:Minnie Maddern Fiske
“I'm not a theater rat, so I never got a theatrical agent and did a play. I came really close though.” PlayTheaterAgentsRatsTheatrical Author:Courtney Love
“Opera is everything rolled into one - music, theater, the dance, color and voices and theatrical illusions.” VoiceColorIllusionTheaterOperaTheatrical Author:Sarah Caldwell
“Theatrical work means too much work or none.” MeanToo MuchTheaterTheatricalToo Much Work Author:Alec-Tweedie
“By the time Buffy finished its Bay Area theatrical run - including a two-month stint at the dollar theater - I had seen the movie well over three dozen times. I was in love.” WellsTwoRunningThreeMonthsAreasTheaterDollarsIncludingFinishedDozenTheatricalTwo MonthsBay Area Author:Mira Grant
“I love festivals because they seem like more of an artsy, supportive attitude - which benefits a more theatrical performer sometimes with having theater and other non-club venues, as well as the audience being filled with other artists. It's nice to be with other comics, as usually at other road gigs, I'm solo for the most part.” WellsSometimesSeemsArtistAttitudeAudienceNiceBenefitsTheaterFilledClubsPerformersSoloSupportiveFestivalsGigsTheatricalVenues Author:Maria Bamford
“My parents are not theatrical people, but my dad took me to the theater.” PeopleParentDadTheaterMy DadTheatrical Author:Kate Fleetwood
“There's the beauty of the stage. I don't like filmed theater or opera because you're kind of playing soccer in a hockey game. Either or, they don't do justice to the media and you end up with a hybrid that is purely sensationalistic. Opera is a very theatrical medium that should be seen on a stage with the musicians in the pit in the audience.” ShouldKindEndsGamesJusticeAudienceStageMediaMusicianTheaterMediumsSoccerHockeyOperaPitsTheatricalHybridEither OrPlaying Soccer Author:Christoph Waltz
“I think what I loved in cinema - and what I mean by cinema is not just films, but proper, classical cinema - are the extraordinary moments that can occur on screen. At the same time, I do feel that cinema and theater feed each other. I feel like you can do close-up on stage and you can do something very bold and highly characterized - and, dare I say, theatrical - on camera. I think the cameras and the viewpoints shift depending on the intensity and integrity of your intention and focus on that.” ThinkingFeelsMeanMomentsFilmCan DoFocusStageLike YouIntegrityTheaterCamerasIntentionExtraordinaryDareScreensCinemaIntensityTheatricalViewpointsCan Do SomethingExtraordinary Moments Author:Benedict Cumberbatch
“I think that when you do any kind of theatrical form, (you can't really do this in the theater) the task as an artist is to reach some form of catharsis yourself, and express something that allows an audience to have some form of catharsis. If there's no discovery in what you do, if there's no struggle in what you do to have that discovery, then, there's no meaning in what you do.” IfsThinkingKindFormArtistAudienceStruggleDiscoveryTasksTheaterTheatricalCatharsis Author:Scott Cohen
“I have walked many times around the world and each time it's different from the last one. It feels a little bit like I am a theatrical director, creating a theatre in space. It's really a theater in the sky. But of course the World Trade Center is certainly the most well-known of my productions.” WorldFeelsWellsLittlesDifferentLastsCoursesBitsSpaceKnownSkyDirectorsCreatingLittle BitTheaterTradeProductionsTheatreAround The WorldWell KnownTheatricalWorld TradeWorld Trade CenterMost Well Known Author:Philippe Petit
“When that word came down that the company had decided that we were going to go theatrical, we hooped and hollered and wahooed and all of that stuff, but the good thing is we didn't have to change anything. It's not like all of a sudden we had to reset, like "Oh my gosh, we're going to theater. We've got to make this better. We've got to make this bigger. We've got to add..." It was all done.” DoneStuffCompanyDecidedBiggerTheaterAddGood ThingsTheatricalResetOh My Gosh Author:Klay Hall
“Movie theaters barely make any money. A movie can make a couple of thousand dollars, or could get lucky and make ten or fifteen thousand dollars, but theatrical releases don't really sustain the work. For me, it's the best sort of advertisement for anything else you'd want to do.” WantCoupleThousandLuckyTenTheaterDollarsReleaseFifteenTheatricalAdvertisementsMovie Theater Author:Robert Greene
“There will always be a theatrical experience because there will always be cinemas no matter what. It's like there will always be theaters to have stage plays in.” MatterPlayStageTheaterNo Matter WhatCinemaTheatricalStage Play Author:Nicolas Winding Refn
“Theatrical times are different from concert times, to put it simply. Taking a figure like [Mahatma] Gandhi and setting him on a stage requires thinking about what theater is about and what the whole experience is about and what we're trying to communicate in that way, so you get into certain less abstract considerations.” ThinkingWayTryingDifferentWholeCertainStageFiguresTheaterCommunicateSettingSettingsAbstractConsiderationConcertsTheatrical Author:Philip Glass
“It's not as though there aren't many, many art works and many other cultures, but there was something special about the civic nature of the Greek theater. All the citizens stopped working. They came into these theaters. It wasn't like a Broadway theater where you sit in the dark and you expect to be passively entertained. You're in this theater, amphitheater, in bright sunlight looking at your fellow citizens, recognizing their faces, and thinking with them about the future of your city. I think very few cultures have had a theatrical tradition that is quite so civic.” ThinkingArtFacesCultureDarkCitiesSpecialCitizensTraditionTheaterFellowsGreekSunlightBroadwayRecognizingTheatricalCivicsSomething SpecialOther Cultures Author:Martha C. Nussbaum
“For early plays of mine, I started with character. But I think that's because I hadn't been in theaters; I hadn't worked that much. I'm very interested in character, obviously, but once I started having my plays produced, I became so fascinated by the theatrical experiment and the weirdness of theatrical space, so now all my plays start with space and stage picture and setting - or container is maybe the better way to put it.” ThinkingWayPlayCharacterSpaceStageMinesTheaterExperimentsSettingSettingsFascinatedBetter WaysTheatricalWeirdnessContainers Author:Annie Baker
“The League of Independent Theater represents a coming together of actual artistic and theatrical forces that may yet undo the difficulty of our times in maintaining the highest artistic standards in a period of economic crisis. Who can save us from the downhill trend of our economy except the vigor of our arts? Theatre, music and education are our only hopes to lift our times beyond their despair and create a viable, prosperous culture.” MayArtTogetherCultureForceEconomyEconomicPeriodsDespairHighestStandardsDifficultyTheaterIndependentCrisisTheatreArtisticLiftsLeagueOur TimeTrendsMaintainingProsperousTheatricalVigorComing TogetherEconomic Crisis Author:Judith Malina
“I had done a lot of plays, particularly at my own theater in LA, and it was the first time in my theatrical life where I didn't feel that my role was also to keep everybody else working hard.” FeelsFirstsHardDonePlayWorkMy OwnRolesHard WorkFirst TimeTheaterTheatrical Author:Gregory Harrison