If I'm seeing a matinee, I will have brunch/ lunch 2-3 hours before the performance. That way, by the time I get to the theatre, I haven't just finished eating and have given some time to digest.
If it's an evening show, I eat after. A heavy meal before a show puts me to sleep.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body