Broadway remains the closest thing we have to a national theatre, the place where the greatest number of people can potentially see… — Tony Kushner 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
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
One is just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks, and therefore the greater the playwright, the more satisfying it is to… — Vivien Leigh Copy Share Image
The theater is a communal event, like church. The playwright constructs a mass to be performed for a lot of people. She… — Marsha Norman 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
Poets and novelists and playwrights make themselves, against terrible resistances, give over what the rest of us keep safely locked within our… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
I think he [Vaclav Havel] probably would have liked to have written more plays. I think he missed being a playwright.I think… — Judy Woodruff Copy Share Image
[Anton] Chekhov is the most produced playwright in the world after Shakespeare, and most of the people in my sort of audience… — Robert Dessaix Copy Share Image
Playwrights have texts, composers have scores, painters and sculptors have the residue of those activities, and dance is traditionally an ephemeral, effervescent,… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
In America they have to know just what you are-- novelist, poet, playwright... Well, I've been all of them... I think poems… — Robert Penn Warren 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
I was a playwright who was still learning the ropes when Starz took a chance on me to create and showrun 'Vida.'… — Tanya Saracho Copy Share Image
I know all about improvisation and the free-form that mirrors the chaos of our time, but I do like to feel that… — Jean Kerr Copy Share Image
Being a playwright is like the equivalent of doing a jigsaw puzzle that has 1,500 pieces, and it's a jigsaw of a… — Lewis Black 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
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
One does not go to the theater to see life and nature; one goes to see the particular way in which life… — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
I lived with this tremendous fear of failure because my father was a playwright and a director, and I think he did… — Ben Affleck Copy Share Image
When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
You know, I used to not understand fashion, a lot of it, but I completely understood being a playwright or a screenwriter… — Reese Witherspoon Copy Share Image
If a playwright tried to see eye to eye with everybody, he would get the worst case of strabismus since Hannibal lost… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
Of course, you would have to be insane to hope your child grows up to be a playwright or poet. Given the… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
The heart of the theater is the play itself, how it dramatizes life to make it meaningful entertainment. To achieve depth and… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
I enjoy all forms of writing, but playwrighting is what made me what I am. Not only working with the ghosts of… — John Logan Copy Share Image
I suppose it is submerged realities that give to dreams their curious air of hyper-reality. But perhaps there is something else as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You must keep people happy backstage because that affects what's onstage. During a run, the playwright feels like the mayor of a… — John Guare Copy Share Image
You have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences. The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for… — Stella Adler 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
An actor and a [theatre] director are both what I would call interpreters of work. We interpret a work, just as a… — George Ogilvie Copy Share Image
As playwrights, as poets, we have to look to ourselves, listen to our guts for the final answers about what changes to… — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
If modern design moved the stage picture away from the specific, tangible, illusionistic world of Romanticism and Realism into a generalized, theatrical,… — Arnold Aronson 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 decided honestly that comic art is an art form in itself. It reflects the life and times more accurately and actually… — Alex Raymond Copy Share Image
There's no reason why you can't say "August Wilson, playwright" even though all of my work, every single play, is about black… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
An excess of development can undermine the most ephemeral but distinctive tool a writer possesses: authorial voice. A writer's voice is as… — David Wright Copy Share Image
Theater is the foundation of how I live my life, actually. My father was a playwright, so I was around it all… — Laura Linney Copy Share Image
I was my class playwright and I wrote plays set in villages with kings and chiefs.My plays were about treason and betrayals.… — Sefi Atta Copy Share Image
I think that as a playwright, if I detail that environment, then I'm taking away something from them [designers]. I'm taking away… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
There were two writer's unions in those days[ during World War II ] , the studio-friendly guild called the Screen Playwrights, and… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
![“I think he [Vaclav Havel] probably would have liked to have written more plays. I think he missed being a playwright.I think he talked about wanting to write plays and keep appealing to people through that medium, rather than politics.” quote by Judy Woodruff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8aa/judy-woodruff-4310_mediums_i-think-he-vaclav-havel-probably-would-h_2627993.jpg)
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![“An actor and a [theatre] director are both what I would call interpreters of work. We interpret a work, just as a musician will interpret a composer's work, we interpret the work of a playwright. We are servants of the theatre and I've always believed that. We must serve what has been written…” quote by George Ogilvie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7a7/george-ogilvie-34528_actors_an-actor-and-a-theatre-director-are-both_3214543.jpg)
![“I think that as a playwright, if I detail that environment, then I'm taking away something from them [designers]. I'm taking away their creativity and their ability to have input themselves, not just to follow what the playwright has written. So I do a minimum set description and let the designers…” quote by August Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/fdb/august-wilson-3646_ability_i-think-that-as-a-playwright-if-i-detail_2244548.jpg)
![“There were two writer's unions in those days[ during World War II ] , the studio-friendly guild called the Screen Playwrights, and the more activist Writer's Guild. The studios were fairly upset that their group wasn't effective, and they sought to punish the other union by labeling them as…” quote by Jay Roach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/15b/jay-roach-8154_activist_there-were-two-writer-s-unions-in-those_3214086.jpg)