Famous Quote by Keegan-Michael Key

My theatrical background was in the great work of the South African playwright Athol Fugard.

— Danny Glover

The late Nadine Gordimer in South Africa, for example, had a wonderful ability to get her country's injustices and contradictions down on paper. Ditto…

— Adam Hochschild

I was my class playwright and I wrote plays set in villages with kings and chiefs.My plays were about treason and betrayals. If they…

— Sefi Atta

It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright.

— Beth Henley

I am an internationally produced playwright.

— Israel Horovitz

When you think about it, what other playwrights are there besides O'Neill, Tennessee and me?

— Mae West

My favorite playwright is probably Samuel Beckett, and he was always laughing at the abyss.

— John Cameron Mitchell

As a playwright, I imagine that in one fashion or another I've been influenced by every single play I've ever experienced.

— Edward Albee

[Anton] Chekhov is the most produced playwright in the world after Shakespeare, and most of the people in my sort of audience would have…

— Robert Dessaix

Yes, it's true, I've been called the Laurence Olivier of spoofs. I guess that would make Laurence Olivier the Leslie Nielsen of Shakespeare.

— Leslie Nielsen

The one living playwright I admire without any reservation whatsoever is Samuel Beckett. I have funny feelings about almost all the others.

— Edward Albee

Before acting offers came by, I dabbled in theatre under the aegis of the late thespian Dinesh Thakur. He was instrumental in honing my…

— Arfi Lamba