A New York theatregoer’s phone was seized after Patti LuPone caught a woman texting during her play, Shows for Days.
The “American Horror Story”; star and Broadway legend addressed Thursday night’s incident and the growing trend in a statement to Playbill. “We work hard on stage to create a world that is being totally destroyed by a few, rude, self-absorbed and inconsiderate audience members who are controlled by their phones. They cannot put them down,”; she wrote. “When a phone goes off or when a LED screen can be seen in the dark it ruins the experience for everyone else – the majority of the audience at that performance and the actors on stage. I am so defeated by this issue that I seriously question whether I want to work on stage anymore. Now I’m putting battle gear on over my costume to marshall the audience as well as perform.”;
During a 2009 performance of Gypsy, LuPone interrupted the play to address a similar incident. Hear her cell phone rant below.
