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• In 1957, 'West Side Story' had introduced the musical to the reckless dark side of teen-age life; 'Bye Bye Birdie,' set in…
• Identity is memory; when memory disappears, the self dissolves and love with it.
• I detest literature. I abominate the theatre. I have a horror of culture. I am only interested in magic!
• Broadway shows in New York draw two times the attendance of all New York sports teams put together.
• Death of a Salesman' is a brilliant taxonomy of the spiritual atrophy of mid-twentieth-century white America.
• I go to the theatre expecting to have a good time. I want each play and performance to take me somewhere. Naturally,…
• Nobody has ever gone broke selling escape to the American public.
• The British playwright Nina Raine is one of her generation's most promising talents.
• A prose writer never sees a reader walk out of a book; for a playwright, it's another matter. An audience is an…
• Although the 'New York Times' annually declares that Broadway is on its deathbed, news of its demise is greatly exaggerated. There's a…
• Angels in America' - which is composed of two three-hour plays, 'Millennium Approaches' and 'Perestroika' - proved to be a watershed drama,…
• Dame Edna is that rarest sighting in our time of the absolute comic, an inspired personification of caprice whose comedy answered the…

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