If you want to see theater you go to New York.

Technology can't eliminate the need for people going to want to go out and see theater and standup comedy.

— Tom Green

What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.

— Edward Albee

I want to get into the theater. I really wanted to be a theater director, but I turned out to be a movie director.

— Frank Oz

My return to the theater in New York was so specific. I didn't want it to be about leveraging my exposure or my fame,…

— Zachary Quinto

What I'd really like to do is do a film or two a year and then do theater in New York the rest of…

— Piper Perabo

I was doing a play in New York, which we had done in New Haven, Connecticut. It was an American premiere of a play…

— Richard Masur

The big difference between TV and theater is that you get to do a new play every week, so it's quite challenging, but it…

— Kevin Chamberlin

New York is not conductive to theater. New York does not encourage its young. It does not encourage experimentation.

— Tim Robbins

One of the things that's great about New York is that it is not a one-industry town. It has education, academia, the service industry,…

— Sarah Jessica Parker

I loved the excitement and the pleasures of life in New York, the opportunities for advancement, the pursuit of ambition, the theaters, the places…

— Cass Gilbert

I'm a New York girl. I come out of New York theater.

— Joan Rivers

After that, I started going downtown and doing a lot of theater shows in Chicago. When you go downtown there, it's like you're in…

— Kel Mitchell

Audiences and, to a large extent, critics who want less from theater than it is possible for it to give. If everybody's encouraged to…

— Edward Albee

And that's what people want to see when they go to the theater. I believe at the end of the day, they want to…

— Viola Davis

I think it takes an introspective person to want to go into the theater and see the dark side of themselves.

— Anne Heche