Sometimes we go to a play and after the curtain has been up five minutes we have a sense of being able… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Most playwrights go wrong on the fifth word. When you start a play and you type 'Act one, scene one,' your writing… — Meredith Willson Copy Share Image
The first theater subscription I ever bought was the August Wilson season at Signature. I remember thinking a whole season to one… — Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Copy Share Image
I'm a black American playwright. I couldn't be anything else. I make my art out of black American culture; they're all cut… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
The playwright's rendition of Abraham Lincoln remembers a pitiful little paddlewheel he saw that he could only generate steam to EITHER blow… — Norman Corwin Copy Share Image
Necessarily, I'm always involved in casting, as any playwright is, because the whole process of putting on a play is a collaborative,… — David Ives Copy Share Image
I ended up becoming a playwright because you can be grammatically incorrect: people speaking in bad poetry or people attempting to speak… — Annie Baker Copy Share Image
When I was sixteen or seventeen, I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a playwright. But everything I wrote,… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
Belonging to the Dramatists Guild Council where, with my fellow dramatists, I can directly affect (and protect) the professional lives of all… — Peter Stone Copy Share Image
Remember that you are an actor in a play, and that the Playwright chooses the manner of it: If he wants you… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
More than any other contemporary British playwright, Tom Stoppard populates his plays -- from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead to The Invention… — Mel Gussow Copy Share Image
About four years ago I made a list, for my own amusement, of the playwrights, the contemporary playwrights, by whom critics said… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I, too, am deeply concerned with an overarching idea that dramaturgs are now authors . . .. I am not taking the… — Dana Rosemary Scallon Copy Share Image
“I had never read a book written by an African-American. I didn't know that black people could write books. I didn't know… — Endesha Ida Mae Holland Copy Share Image
The late Nadine Gordimer in South Africa, for example, had a wonderful ability to get her country's injustices and contradictions down on… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
“I had an affair with a downtown playwright. Two things about this man: He was an ex-alcoholic, and he was phobic about… — Vivian Gornick 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 thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories. — Francis Ford Coppola 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
Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers. — Katori Hall Copy Share Image
I am not a playwright. A playwright would take "Antigone" and hit it a few clouts and knock it out of shape… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
The person I would trust the most is my mom. She's just really creative... She's a playwright and she's a musician. — Jazmine Sullivan Copy Share Image
I'm on Twitter every single week. It's sort of like being a playwright standing in the back of the theater. — Peter Paige 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
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
There was a play that was written by who I think is America's greatest playwright, and he wrote a small part in… — Scott Glenn 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
The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this… — Anonymous 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
Theatre is an actor's medium though behind the stage there is a playwright, director and perhaps in some, a music composer too,… — Himani Shivpuri Copy Share Image
Steven Alan Green is ONE funny writer ---- Everything I read of yours makes me laugh and think - Not just the… — Taylor Negron Copy Share Image
What I was utterly convinced of, and still am, is the idea that the only responsibility the free intellectual has is vis-a-vis… — Tawfiq al-Hakim Copy Share Image
