Author Quote by August Wilson

The play is one of the very few pieces of great dramatic and comic writing that I have read in a long, long time.…

— Linda Lavin

I don't believe really good plays - interesting plays, complicated plays - can mean just one thing to every single person in the audience.

— Joe Mantello

I've never been in a bad play. There might have been bad productions and I might have been bad in them, but I've never…

— Stephen Rea

A good play puts the audience through a certain ordeal,

— Howard Barker

Apart from that Mrs Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?

— Tom Lehrer

It's hard to write a good play because it's hard to structure a plot. If you can think of it off the top of…

— David Mamet

I'm doing this play right now, the new David Mamet play. It's called 'Race,' and it's very interesting how people really leave the theater…

— Kerry Washington

I've always had great satisfaction out of writing the plays. I've not always had great satisfaction out of seeing them produced-although often I've had…

— Lillian Hellman

When I was in college, at Wheaton-I inadvertently got cast in a play, and I had a really great time doing it. I didnt…

— Catherine Keener

It was so satisfying for me - a great reward, just to see it done well. And it was beautifully directed by my daughter…

— Fay Wray

I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the theater as much as I love…

— Zoe Kazan

The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic.

— Kenneth Tynan