I love the theater because the theater is alive. The…

For me, theater will always be very, very much alive, but not necessarily in the theatrical tradition.

— Robert Lepage

Theatre is immediate, it's alive, you're there with the audience, it can't be done again and again and again and again, it's organic.

— Kim Cattrall

Sometimes improv doesn't work on TV because the audience had heard the thing that was shouted and they're very much alive, the audience in…

— Russell Howard

I love the theater because it's alive. It's a beginning, a middle and an end, and it begins a life.

— Jason Robards

The L.A. theater scene is very different. The perception has been that people who love theater do theater in New York. The people who…

— Tracie Thoms

Anyone can do theater, even actors. And, theater can be done everywhere, even in a theater.

— Augusto Boal

It's wrong to make a living off the theater. Theater should be supported, like redwood trees. You should make your living - whether you're…

— Orson Bean

“The theater of man is not always 'amusing', but it is always theater, and theater can be marveled at even when its content is…

— Tom Robbins

My whole background is theater, and theater is to some degree presentational.

— Connie Britton

I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.

— Al Pacino

If there were no rules about when to applaud, we in the audience would have the right response almost always.

— Emanuel Ax

You throw a perfectly straight line at the audience and then, right at the end, you curve it. Good jokes do that.

— Abe Burrows

But the audience is right. They're always, always right. You hear directors complain that the advertising was lousy, the distribution is no good, the…

— William Friedkin

If I was at the Comedy Cellar at midnight you yelled at the back of the room. But you, for television, play it to…

— John Mulaney

Every lecture should state one main point and repeat it over and over, like a theme with variations. An audience is like a herd…

— Gian-Carlo Rota