Broadway actress Patti LuPone has once again made headlines for stopping a performance to confront an audience member who was using their phone.  

The actress, who was performing Wednesday night in the play Shows for Days, at Lincoln Center in New York, stopped the performance to snatch the phone away from an audience member who was texting, before she exited the stage holding the phone.  

"We work hard on stage to create a world that is being totally destroyed by a few, rude, self-absorbed and inconsiderable audience members who are controlled by their phones," LuPone said in a statement afterwards. "They cannot put them down. 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 actor 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 marshal the audience as well as perform." 

This isn't the first time LuPone has stopped a performance to berate audience members for being rude during her performance. In the final weeks of her Tony-winning run in the 2008 revival of Gypsy, she stopped to reprimand a theatergoer who was taking pictures.  

Not long after, she stopped midway through singing Don't Cry for Me Argentina, in a concert at Las Vegas' Orleans Hotel, where she confronted an audience member who was using an unspecified electronic device and threatened to have them removed if it happened again.  

After that incident, she also spoke to the press, stressing that she wasn't the only actor who was bothered by such behaviors. 

"Do you think I'm alone in this? Ask any performer on Broadway right now about their level of frustration with this issue," she said at the time. "This is been going on in my career for 30 years since I starred in Evita, and you're surprised I stop shows now?"

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