Bald Quote by Eugene Ionesco

If Shakespeare's great plays are variants of stories, even novels, you can see how each character is telling his story from his perspective; each…

— Joyce Carol Oates

I think in theater the playwright is king. Those words are unchangeable. They are the reason that everything else flows from.

— Greta Gerwig

Each of my Shakespeare pieces is different to the other, but each espouses a set of philosophies common to all my theatre work.

— Tim Crouch

All 'Hamlets' are different, and it's the most overwritten play ever written.

— Martin Landau

For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to move on…

— August Wilson

Writing for the theater is a whole different can of fish. The music now has the responsibility of so many things. The plot could…

— Frank Wildhorn

I think that one of the reasons Shakespeare withstands the test of time is that his themes are so universal.

— Rebecca Serle

I guess some characters always remain the same, and Macbeth is one of them.

— Abhimanyu Singh

Each play I write has its own unique origin story.

— Lynn Nottage

No two dramatists think or write alike. Ten thousand playwrights can take the same premise, as they have done since Shakespeare, and not one…

— Lajos Egri

If you see the Sopranos, you're not going to be speaking in the Shakespearean English.

— Lucy Liu

One of the things I have loved so much about the career that I have had is that pretty much every character I have…

— Essie Davis