A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant. — Wilson Mizner Copy Share Image
But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am very aware that playwrights, particularly good ones, have a intention for everything they write. Language and punctuation is used specifically,… — Laura Linney Copy Share Image
My style as a human being is to indulge people who need to escape, yet I insist on confronting them as a… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
Screenwriting is a terrible way to make a living and I always try to talk anyone out of it. Until you sit… — Amy Holden Jones Copy Share Image
The only thing we are as actors are messengers. That's all we are. Correct? We are delivering the playwright's intention through the… — Patti LuPone Copy Share Image
With a stage play, they can't cut a word; you can be in rehearsals every day, you cast it, you cast the… — Martin McDonagh Copy Share Image
I started my career as an actor, then morphed into a playwright who accidentally became a novelist with my first book 'Fall… — Ann-Marie MacDonald Copy Share Image
I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg. I believe in a theater where the director and the playwright work together… — John Guare Copy Share Image
I remember I once had a meeting with Sydney Pollack and the playwright Tom Stoppard, and they thought I was English. I… — Stephen Dorff Copy Share Image
The classical writers... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all classes and how they live and painted them pretty authentically. — Timothy West Copy Share Image
Dancing insists we take up space, and though it has no set direction, we go there together. Dance is dangerous, joyous, sexual,… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
Write plays that matter. Raise the stakes. Shout, yell, holler, but make yourself heard. It's time for playwrights to reclaim the theatre.… — Terrence McNally Copy Share Image
I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers. I feel that I am just a… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
I know too many playwrights, or would-be playwrights, or would-have-been playwrights, that are around my age, who were bitter or have gone… — Jennifer Tipton Copy Share Image
Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square. — Alex Cox Copy Share Image
My plays aren't stylistically the same. Just being an African-American woman playwright on Broadway is experimental. — Suzan-Lori Parks Copy Share Image
Malcolm X is a person who has inspired - he has been the muse of several generations of black cultural workers, artists,… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
The cast, staff, and crew of a live theater work together toward a common goal: a good performance. Thus, theater is necessarily… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
I find it very invigorating having Ken Lonergan, who's an established, Pulitzer-nominated playwright doing Howards End, or Chris Hampton who's won an… — Colin Callender Copy Share Image
If by any chance a playwright wishes to express a political opinion or a moral opinion or a philosophy, he must be… — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
