Audience Quote by Annie Baker

I mean, musical theater really informed so much of my life. It just so perfectly brings order to chaos, which is why we love…

— Randy Rainbow

I find theater terrifying. There are no do-overs, you know? It's all happening live. You need to be in it 100 percent at any…

— Rachel Brosnahan

I sure do love theater. I mean, that's where I started. I am actually sort of shy, but something happens when the audience comes…

— Annie Potts

The thing I love about theater is the fact that everyone's complicit. We're either there as a storyteller, or we're there as a listener,…

— Sarah Goldberg

I'm not turning my back on classical theater. It's all about opportunities and timing a lot of the time when things come up.

— Gugu Mbatha-Raw

With a time-based medium like theater or film, you can't have the audience getting restless in their seats. They're stuck there on their bums;…

— Emma Donoghue

Theater is the most enriching and thrilling thing to do as an actor. It trumps movies and all that other stuff. People say, 'You…

— Paul Rudd

Modern audiences are so intelligent. They work at such a fast pace that if you don't give enough stimulus at a breakneck speed, they…

— George Blagden

The idea of making audiences feel like they matter, that the theatre matters, and that they're a partner in the event—that's what fuels me…

— Diane Paulus

Theater has always been my less-fickle friend.

— Mariette Hartley

The great thing about theatre is that the performance develops over the run - it changes each time.

— Karla Crome

The thing that sticks to me most about theater is that because it's such an ape crazy nonstop experience, you really don't have time…

— Sebastian Stan