I write plays, and I have a musical that's starting to get…

I majored in theater. I did plays. But musicals were not my thing.

— Daveed Diggs

I love film scores and opera, and I wanted to work in those forms. But theater was more accessible. And no one was doing…

— Jeff Britting

I don't see that many plays, and for me, musicals are rarely pleasing.

— Wallace Shawn

People in their early 20s are not often considered the target demographic for new plays; musicals have had much more success in exploring that…

— Paul Downs Colaizzo

Magic in plays and musicals, I think, is more often created because of the work of an incredible company rather than a single component.

— Michael Arden

I don't see that many plays, and for me, musicals are rarely pleasing. I feel the actors are being put through a kind of…

— Wallace Shawn

Musicals are — particularly musicals — plays also, but musicals particularly are… the last collaborator is your audience, and so you’ve got to wait…

— Stephen Sondheim

I did a lot of stage plays and musicals, and my first proper acting job was on 'Holby City' when I was 15.

— Lee Ryan

I write plays instinctively. I don't like writing movie scripts.

— Jesse Eisenberg

In reading plays, however, it should always be remembered that any play, however great, loses much when not seen in action.

— Anonymous

Keep evolving. Keep reading plays, doing plays, but also be sure to expand your horizons as much as possible. You only have yourself to…

— Gideon Glick

I went into this job to do plays, but that's here for 10 weeks, and the rest of the year I do a lot…

— Michael Ritchie

A friend of mine had his own theatre company, and he jumped me in like I was in a gang. And once I came…

— David Alan Grier

I'm always reading plays, and when I find something that I really want to do, then I'll make the time to do it.

— Stephen Lang

I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I started reading…

— Patrick Marber