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I'm sensitive about the criticism [for not producing new playwrights], yes. But I'm hip to it as well. I read 500 new plays a year,… — Gregory A. Boyd
I am the same artist with the same nagging questions I had in my early 20's. What's real and what isn't? How do we tell… — John Guare
Obviously VIA DOLOROSA is completely artificial. It is as highly wrought as any of my plays. But basically all the artifice is to disguise itself… — David Hare
Although knowledge of structure is helpful, real creativity comes from leaps of faith in which you jump to something illogical. But those leaps form the… — Francis Ford Coppola
We have a desperate need for producers in the [commercial Broadway] theatre, and it is very hard for them to get money and find investors… — Arthur Laurents
The commercial theatre may still be considered one of New York's primary tourist attractions, but . . . there is no longer an audience for… — Robert Brustein
There's nothing personal in it [THE SKRIKER]. I'm not ever inclined with any of the plays to say, This is about that, because plays are… — Caryl Churchill
In many of my plays, there was a kind of autobiographical character in the form of a son or young man. The purpose of it,… — Sam Shepard
I would write plays for my grandmother, who was stone deaf, my mother and the dog, that was our audience. — Jayne Meadows
And no wonder; for the new technique of "subliminal projection," as it was called, was intimately associated with mass entertainment, and in the life of… — Aldous Huxley
I was a theater dork in high school and did all the plays. My theater teacher in high school, Janet Spahr, was absolutely incredible and… — Melissa Rauch
I observed that the successful farmer worked at his job. He would do his plowing, disking, harrowing, seeding, and harvesting in the proper season and… — Nathan Eldon Tanner
I took an acting class at Cerritos Junior College and I did a handful of plays, maybe five or six plays. — John Corbett
A child playing air guitar plays no wrong notes — Victor Wooten
I only really started to go to plays and to be interested in drama 20 years ago when as an artist I was already well-rounded.… — Pete Townshend
The kind of theater that I do is sort of 'narrative realism,' which I think in the broadest sense is legitimate to say is mainstream.… — Tony Kushner
One of the things I learned in 'Slavs!' is that it's much easier to talk about being gay than it is to talk about being… — Tony Kushner
Before trying a novel I wrote a couple of plays. — James Merrill
I won't sit here and say I've never had a pimple, but I try to have a really great diet, you know, lots of vegetables… — Janelle Monae
As a student in London, I had seen so many shows, so many plays and had seen so many greats of the day. — David Naughton

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