“Patti LuPone Takes Cell Phone From Texting Audience Member ” CBS New York

Annoyed with the texter, LuPone, who plays a community theater tyrant in the play, took matters into her own hands to school the rude audience member. “They can not put them down”.

She added that she felt defeated by this issue that she is seriously questioning whether she wants to work on stage anymore.

“She was so uninterested”, the star continued. At the very end of that scene, we all exit.

(Had that person seen LuPone’s guest spot as “The Cut-Wife” in this season’s Penny awful, she surely would have thought twice about messing with her.).

According to Gothamist, the “Shows for Days” audience member’s phone was returned after the show.

While many people on the social media site applauded her intervention on behalf of irritated theatergoers everywhere, LuPone said the subject of rude audiences is one that has caused her no small amount of professional anguish over the years. “More than half the audience on any given night has never before been in a Broadway theater and they simply don’t know the etiquette”.

“When we went out for the second act I was very close to [the texting woman], and she was still texting”, the Tony Award victor told The New York Times.

Meanwhile, Patti LuPone’s phone confiscation came less than week after another New York theatre removed an audience member from the stage after reportedly trying to plug his mobile phone in an unfunctional electrical outlet on the stage of “Hand to God“.

This isn’t the first time the 66-year-old called out an audience member for using technology during a show! She slapped him and while the show was in mid-performance, marched across the playing area to complain to management.

Ms. LuPone said that the young woman barely even saw the play and was immersed in her phone throughout the performance. “I walked offstage and handed it to the stage manager, who gave it to the house manager”. “They are truly inconsiderate, self-absorbed people who have no public manners whatsoever”. “Or, should I stand up for my rights as a performer as well as the audiences I perform for?” “Basically I’m out here – and not the ushers – to say hi to you all and to dispel the myth that I might do something tonight”.