Tony and Grammy Award winner Patti LuPone reportedly grabbed a smartphone out of the hands of a woman who was texting during LuPone's performance of Shows for Days at the New York City-based Lincoln Center on Wednesday night.

According to several audience members, during the production's second act, LuPone delivered her exit line, and as she left the stage she took the phone from the offending texter, who was sitting near the stage right exit, two rows back. It's unclear if the phone was returned.

”Without breaking character, Patti LuPone snatched a rude woman's phone and walked offstage at Shows for Days tonight,” Arts and Entertainment writer Diane Snyder tweeted. Another audience member (@CatsPolitics on Twitter) replied, “Our whole row lost their minds. Best onstage reaction to cell phone idiocy I've ever seen. Viva La LuPone.”

LuPone has a reputation for bristling at technology brought into the theater and notably stopped a performance of Gypsy in 2008 in the middle of her song when she caught an audience member taking photos without permission, according to Playbill.

This morning, LuPone issued a statement railing against the texter's rude behavior:

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. 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.

The incident is the second this month to draw attention to rude cellphone behavior in theater settings. Last week, a man crawled onto a Broadway stage before a performance of a play called Hand to God and tried to plug his dying phone into a prop wall outlet (that, obviously, had no power). The man was escorted off the stage but was allowed to stay and keep his (probably dead) phone.