Off-Broadway Productions Quotes

I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.

People forget that even the biggest hit shows, like 'Hamilton,' started off-Broadway.

Actually, every time I am back in New York, I read for as many plays as I can.

My grandmother took me to a lot of theater. I was exposed to performance quite a bit - everything from Broadway to off-Broadway and dance and music as well. I was very lucky that way. It was a very rich childhood.

I am an off-Broadway, nonprofit kind of guy.

So somehow we've got to get back to making stuff for people that are not necessarily interested in seeing the common Broadway fare.

Everything I've done until 'The Jeffersons' - the plays, the movies, the soap operas - were all in New York.

David Cromer, from Chicago, I think is the most gifted young director in America.

I thought I was going to be a theater actor. I moved to New York after college and did some plays and worked a lot. Once the realities of living as a theatrical actor hit me, I realized I wanted to start making a little bit of money and not have to bartend and work in theater.

It's funny, oftentimes the really great roles that I enjoy are in classic plays, and there aren't many theatres in New York who will do them, aside from Roundabout.

Broadway's never my end goal because of the plays I write. These are tough plays. Of course there's a lot of humor, but my goal is just to reach as wide an audience as possible, however that happens.

I went to Boston University and got my BFA, and performed Off Broadway.

Woodie King Jr., in 1970, had started a company called the New Federal Theatre, which was ensconced at the Henry Street Settlement. I did a number of plays there, and I auditioned each time. The plays were mostly new. New York was very fertile ground; there was a plethora of African-American plays being done.

I love the theater, and I did tons of theater before I ever did anything in front of the camera, but I haven't done anything in New York in a while, and I really, really want to. I've been offered a few things, but it's got to be something that works, because it's so disruptive to the family that it's got to be something that I cannot turn down.

I am interested in independent cinema and theatre, and they don't make news.

A lot of the magic is off-Broadway.