I think theater is powerful. The best experiences I had in the theater are more powerful than the best experiences I had in movies.
I think of the Roundabout as my musical theater family here in New York City.
I love the theater community and theater life, and would love to figure out the distinctive differences between Broadway and the West End.
Manchester Youth theater, then the National Student Theater Company, and later, my degree course, all helped form my love of telling stories and directing.
My happiest times in the theater are when I do ensemble pieces. I really got into theater because of that closeness.
I like to originate new roles and characters for musical theater.
My older sister has all her degrees in theater, and I couldn't stand the theater geeks!
Musical theater is often seen as a lesser form of acting, although I don't see it that way.
I love rock and opera, and I love musical theater, and I don't want to lose any of that.
I started acting when I was 10, doing musical theater. I was a brunette at that time. I was always cast in all the exotic parts.
Becoming interested in poetics got me interested in theater. Theater is supposed to be poetry, you know, before it's anything else. It just doesn't fly if it isn't musical.
The whole issue is that everyone would love to do theater, but it doesn't pay enough, so to do music theater on TV, that's the ultimate dream.
I grew up doing theater and music, and in fact, I spent more time doing theater, and I'd do music when I could.
I feel like I prefer movies, but, at the same time, theater is so exciting when you're doing it. It's a harder job doing theater.
I'm conflicted with theater in the city because you want to reach a diverse audience, and that audience doesn't typically go to the theater.
Theater has always been something that I've had an interest in, but I was never a devoted fanatic theater-goer.
I worked a lot in Chicago's theater scene as a fight choreographer. And so I do have a lot of experience in stage combat and also in Kabuki dance and Kabuki theater.
In Mexico, theater is very underground, so if you're a theater actor it's very difficult to make a living. But it's also a very beautiful pathway to knowledge and to an open education.
Miramax can buy a small independent movie that isn't very good, but because it has great relationships with different theaters, it can get into a big theater.
I've been doing musical theater since I was a kid. And look for a CD from me in the future. I want to write all the songs!
I always loved acting and improv and sketch comedy and theater, which I did at a local youth theater.
