I'd love to do some new plays.

Despite the digital age, there is a very large number of venues and spaces that are looking for plays, and many of them are…

— Tom Stoppard

One of the things that I'd like to get back to that I did as a younger actor was to work on, you know,…

— Thomas Gibson

What Lou Tyrrell creates when he has a theater is a birthing center for new plays.

— Israel Horovitz

I like having the script before I start. With new plays, you're constantly developing as you're doing it. It's really frightening. You don't quite…

— Sophie Okonedo

I hardly ever see new plays. They don't have the audacity and daring that they used to.

— Steven Berkoff

I don't see why people want new plays all the time. What would happen to concerts if people wanted new music all the time?

— Clive Barnes

I would rather give up acting than become world famous, because I think you pay a very high price. Writing and putting new plays…

— Lindsay Duncan

I was always the person in our class who was fascinated by new plays. I would go to the library all the time as…

— Joe Mantello

The great fun of doing new plays is that people have no idea what's going to happen next. That goes quite soon, as people…

— Stephen Daldry

I thought I would spent my career doing Chekhov and Ibsen in regional theaters, so the fact that I started doing new plays was…

— Zeljko Ivanek

I'm more rooted in new plays and new writing.

— Brendan Coyle

The best thing about being nominated in a category like best new play is realizing there were enough new plays to make a category.

— Stephen Karam

I'm sensitive about the criticism [for not producing new playwrights], yes. But I'm hip to it as well. I read 500 new plays a…

— Gregory A. Boyd

We felt that although they were patchy, there was a tremendous political energy in the Henry plays.

— Edward Hall

I think for me, or for anyone who plays the quarterback position, it's almost an unspoken word when you think about leadership. Some guys…

— Cam Newton