Theatre has always been better disposed to colourblind casting than telly or film. Given that most television is contemporary, and it reaches 56 million people, I am disappointed there still isn’t more representation.
Unease is not an emotion I get often in the theatre, and I like it.
A theatre is not a blank page for editorial, it is not a soapbox or a Tannoy system: it is a conscience that wakes with what is happening in the space, and wakes further still in response to what people are making of it.
Wyndham’s is a beautiful old theatre. The sensation on the stage isn’t as different as you might think from the Royal Court.
Sometimes, you just have to clear your head and get out to see other things. It is very important to be nourished. I love to go to museums and galleries, I like to see theatre, film, dance – anything creative. It doesn’t promise you inspiration, but it nourishes your creative soul, and that’s good.
I just loved being in the theatre with all those crazy, creative people.
The theatre should reflect America as it’s lived in today. And that is a multicultural America.
For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture.
I don’t sweat the Internet. You know, it’s still something I enjoy as a movie geek myself to get on and, like, look at all the websites; however, when it comes to marketing a movie, the Internet is still not the thing that gets people to the theatre.
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.
Theatre is relatively easy if you’re British – you’re living in the theatre capital of the world, London – there are so many places you can work, still. If I had begun to think of myself as a film actor, I think I would have got distracted.
I never felt cool growing up. I was a bit of an outsider, but I discovered theatre very early on, which got me through.
I’ve always been a fan of horror because I feel like it is one of the last genres where you need to see at a theatre, sharing in this profound experience of seeing it with a community of people.
Firstly I did it in this huge theatre in Avignon, then to smaller places, then bigger places. You have to change the volume of the voice, give more or less. The way you have to relate to space makes it like sculpture.
Movies are not scripts – movies are films; they’re not books, they’re not the theatre.
I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting.
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.
I’m into parlor dramas. I’m into theatre. I’m trained for the stage. I trained to do Chekhov and Shakespeare, I was trained for the stage.
There’s such a sense of theatre in getting glammed up; it’s like putting on a play or short film.
I don’t think it’s the job of filmmakers to give anybody answers. I do think, though, that a good film makes you ask questions of yourself as you leave the theatre.
With the theatre, your whole day is geared towards the evening’s show, and that’s the job. People usually go to work about 9 and come home around 5, or maybe 7.
If I’m not in the theatre, I’m in an open mic night or doing a guest set at the Comedy Club, or whatever, just trying to develop stuff.
I’d love to work across all three fields – theatre, film and TV.
In our own, theatre can be the place where we come together, reaching with and through stories, to who we are and to who we can be.
The more you go to a theatre and the more you hear stories you aren’t necessarily familiar with, the more open you become.
It was a different planet in 1967, the Broadway theatre. It had a little ashtray clamped to the back of every seat and the author got 10% of the gross.
It is good if newcomers have a theatre background. It helps in films.
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 realised that if I wanted to act, I needed to join theatre where I could improve my acting skills first and also show my talent.
The applause from the audience gives me a high. Probably that’s what has kept my love for theatre intact.
This outfit called Los Angeles Theatre Works does readings of plays.
I really do not see why there is not a splendid field for good work on the music hall stage, and if I did not have my own theatre taking up my time, I should rather like to go into it.
By obtaining a sense of its place in the unfolding drama of life, set in an ecological theatre, so we can understand why it has become one of the leading players.
In my childhood, I used to go to theatres to watch independent singers’ outing on screen. I used to be excited about how different they sound in a video and at a theatre.
Each of my Shakespeare pieces is different to the other, but each espouses a set of philosophies common to all my theatre work.
The interest of my mother was more in the entertainment field. She loved to go to concerts and to the theatre.
I didn’t learn anything about acting until I joined the Group Theatre. They taught me an entirely new approach, an entirely new technique.
I come from a small village called Murud Janjira near Alibaug. I started doing theatre right from school days and later joined the Sir J. J. Institute of Applied Art, after which I joined an advertising agency.
I began modeling in N.Y. and doing commercials. That led to regional theatre and then Broadway and then movies.
I remember when ‘The Right Stuff’ opened in Hollywood. I got dressed that morning and drove my car down to the theatre that it was playing on, thinking that there would be mobs of people outside. When I looked, there was nobody there.
I used to say that theatre was my favourite thing. But the more I do film, the more I appreciate it.
I had been nine years in the theatre and hadn’t had massive success. My only thing was I wanted to be an actor and I didn’t care when, where, or how much for.
Theatre is immediate gratification.
I love storytelling and I love just relating directly to an audience. That’s why we do theatre, it’s because we love contact with the audience. We love the fact that the audience will change us. The way the audience responds makes us change our performance.
One of the things about being a law student is that the academic discipline of law is very often removed from the practical reality of law. How to complain, who to complain to, and whether or not you even need to invoke the law is very different in the real world from how it’s examined in the lecture theatre.
Theatre has no national identity. It is something for the world, whether it is Irish, English, or French.
Film is fragmented and gets into lots of other people’s hands. There are a lot of pleasures that theatre gives me. You get to perform uninterrupted.
