All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.
The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater.
What 'War and Peace' is to the novel and 'Hamlet' is to the theater, Swan Lake' is to ballet - that is, the name which to many people stands for and sums up an art form.
I'm a person who likes these sort of movies... sad but moving 'art movies' that normally are at a festival and then they go to a small art house theater and disappear.
I love movie sets. It's another home for me. Movie theaters and movie sets - they're just the best places to be. I love them.
If there were an Oscar for best theatrical performance by a country, Israel would win every year. It's a country based on theater. It's a lunatic state - completely insane.
'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter' is without a doubt the best film we are ever likely to see on the subject - unless there is a sequel, which is unlikely, because at the end, the Lincolns are on their way to the theater.
In Edinburgh, there was a lovely little Episcopalian Church of Scotland church on my way to the theater, so I used to pop in there and soak up the atmosphere.
You come in off the street, through the doors of the theater. You sit down. The lights go down and the curtain goes up. And you're in another world.
Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.
I knew what it was to be uncomfortable in a movie theater watching unfolding on the screen images of myself - not me, but black people - that were uncomfortable.
I'm the perfect kind of personality for making YouTube videos. I deal in short attention span theater. I do wild things.
Live theater is my favorite of all the mediums that I have worked in, so I have every intention on coming back to Broadway.
We should have done more damage to the Iraqi forces before they withdrew from the Kuwaiti theater.
The muscles you flex in theater are muscles that you really need. I must always find a way to get back there. It's irreplaceable.
Charity in the theater begins and ends with those who have a play opening within a week of one's own.
Your mind just goes to the craziest idea to lure people into the theater, and then you write your script around those elements.
In the theater, everything is ephemeral. Everything is almost weightless and without a very clear definition of how you made it.
I grew up in a town where there were no galleries, no museums, no theaters - a very religious, ultraconservative community.
I had no idea I was going to have a career in the theater. I did not plan it.
I started selling out comedy clubs before I got to town with no advertising. I was selling out theaters just on the rumor that I was going to be there.
