Average Quote by Ethel Merman

I am very aware that playwrights, particularly good ones, have a intention for everything they write. Language and punctuation is used specifically, and most…

— Laura Linney

I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg.

— John Guare

Drama began as the act of a whole community. Ideally, there would be no speculators. In practice, every member of the audience should feel…

— W. H. Auden

I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg. I believe in a theater where the director and the playwright work together to create…

— John Guare

Playwrights are discovering you can bypass the shorthand of cinema and really explore a situation, ramp up the pressure, over several hours of telly.

— Adrian Lester

A prose writer never sees a reader walk out of a book; for a playwright, it's another matter. An audience is an invaluable education.…

— John Lahr

One of the things you hope you've done as a playwright is create roles that can sustain different interpretations.

— Tracy Letts

A conventional playwright tries to tell you more about the characters than they know about themselves.

— Timothy West

Theatre can entertain, provoke, challenge, investigate, comfort and educate. It's arrogant of a playwright to think education is more important than anything else. Writing…

— Alistair Beaton

If by any chance a playwright wishes to express a political opinion or a moral opinion or a philosophy, he must be a good…

— Noel Coward

If you think of dramaturgy in North America, which is so realistic and so literal sometimes, sometimes what theaters - especially dramaturgs - ask…

— Nilo Cruz

Most of the people dishing out judgment have no working experience of the theatre, have not written a professional play, a sketch, or even…

— John Lahr