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"Buster Keaton's homage to the vaudeville of his youth begins with a dream in which he plays the audience, the orchestra and the performers in a small theatre. He then reappears as a stagehand who keeps the show going by impersonating a performing chimpanzee. This is one of Keaton's early short films, the sight gags, and impending calamaties, combined with Keaton's unyielding stone face sets the pattern for Keaton's later work. Unlike his greatest competitor Charlie Chaplin, Keaton fully immersed himself in the process of filmmaking looking for new ways to use the cinema to enhance his visual gags. Keaton's use of split screen in this film allowed him to play all the instruments in the orchestra while simultaneously applauding as a member of the audience."@en
""Keaton plays the audience, the orchestra and the performers of a small playhouse, an aggregate of about two dozen characterizations in this brilliant tour de force"--Videodisc sleeve."@en
"This silent film by Edward F. Cline and Buster Keaton is about a stagehand who causes havoc wherever he goes during a theater performance."
"A comedy in which Keaton plays a stage manager, an actor, a monkey and other parts; includes the "dream" sequence."@en
""The genius of Keaton is fully demonstrated in this entrancing silent film. Keaton plays virtually all the characters, but the kicker is that he's often on screen multiple times in one shot!"--Container."@en
"Buster Keaton's homage to the vaudeville of his youth begins with a dream illusion in which he plays the audience, the orchestra and the performers of a small playhouse. Later he appears as a stagehand who keeps the show on disaster's edge by impersonating a performing chimpanzee and bursting the water tank of a magician's act."@en
"Comedian Buster Keaton play a stage manager, an actor, a monkey and other parts in this "Keaton Theater" show."@en
"This Buster Keaton classic short moves from dream sequences to reality with a theater, the playhouse of the title, as the center point. This amazing film is most notable for a theater production where Keaton portrays every character, from the musicians to the performers to the audience members. This effect was done through a multiple exposure technique that was truly revolutionary for its time."@en
"In The Playhouse, a technical tour-de-force, Buster Keaton portrays every member of a stage company, the entire audience, and an undisciplined chimp, to boot (in one scene appearing simultaneously as nine characters)!"@en
"Buster is a stagehand who fouls up everything in this farce about the theatre. Keaton plays a stage manager, an actor, a monkey and other parts."@en
"Buster Keaton is employed as a stage-hand who gets involved in a love affair with an identical twin, a fight or two, and two stage acts. In one he plays the part of a performing chimpanzee and in the other he rescues a damsel in danger of drowning, all with disastrous results."