It was a different planet in 1967, the Broadway theatre. It had a little ashtray clamped to the back of every seat and the author got 10% of the gross.Tom Stoppard
Theater is still a medium which attracts young writers. You'd think that it would be all over by now, with television and film. But it's not.Tom Stoppard
In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of imposed dramaticness.Tom Stoppard
A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors.Tom Stoppard
When I was a reporter in Bristol, which I was between the years 1954 and 1960, the newspaper would get tickets for whoever showed up to play a gig at the big hall down the road, so I saw some wonderful people. The Everly Brothers, for example.Tom Stoppard
Theater in New York is nearer to the street. In London, you have to go deep into the building, usually, to reach the place where theater happens. On Broadway, only the fire doors separate you from the sidewalk, and you're lucky if the sound of a police car doesn't rip the envelope twice a night.Tom Stoppard
I think probably I've been influenced by Chekhov and Walt Disney, if you see what I mean.Tom Stoppard
