Awful Quote by Edward Albee

I hardly ever see new plays. They don't have the audacity and daring that they used to.

— Steven Berkoff

Speaking about myself, I've been pleasantly surprised that my older plays are still being performed. Most important is that they still have something to…

— Vaclav Havel

Plays are so much more special if they've never ever had a production, but I think you can really work on a play and…

— Beth Henley

I think that some of these plays are lost in this new horror called development, which is a place for dramaturgs to say "let…

— John Guare

Suddenly we saw that you could do plays about real life, and people had been doing them for some time, but they weren't always…

— Timothy West

In my opinion, there's nothing new in the theatre, ever. Theatre-makers are thieves, in the honourable tradition of charlatans. They fake it very, very…

— Simon McBurney

Plays can outlast even the opinions of the chief film critic of The New York Times and that reviews, although they feel devastating in…

— Tony Kushner

I think in this country we're committed to developing plays, and many plays I've seen have been rewritten too much. The scenes are tight,…

— A. R. Gurney

And that's another reason to make this movie: We can put plays on film now, at a relatively small cost, and they will reach…

— Dustin Hoffman

No producer should revive a play unless they have a very good reason for it. I think there's quite enough about a good play…

— Timothy West

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

The theater is a baffling business, and a shockingly wasteful one when you consider that people who have proven their worth, who have appeared…

— Ilka Chase